GOD ON TRIAL

UK, BBC TV, 2008

director.gif (905 bytes)Andy DeEmmony

CAST

Rupert Graves
Sir Antony Sher
Jack Shepard
Stellan Skarsgård
Stephen Dillane
Dominic Cooper
Eddie Marsan
 

Produced by Hat Trick Productions for BBC Scotland




SYNOPSIS

With their fath tested by their suffering and the barbarity of the Nazis, prisoners in the famous Auschwitz concentration camp put God on trial. The charge is that God has broken his covenant with his chosen people to protect and care for them. The trial takes place in a camp blockhouse over the course of one day around a selection of those prisoners who are going to be taken to the gas chamber.
 

button_box.gif (205 bytes)PRODUCTION NOTES:

Filming took place in Scotland in  Dumbarton and Bishopton in January 2008.  Executive Producer Mark Redhead comments: "With the attacks of September 11 and the Iraq war, religion is now centre-stage in a way that has not occurred before in my lifetime; extraordinary atrocities are being committed in the name of God, while natural calamities and man-made disasters claim thousands of lives every year. 'God On Trial' is set in an extreme situation, but it wrestles with the great questions we all ask ourselves: how can there be so much suffering in the world, and what kind of a god could let such things happen? God On Trial attempts to look at some of the most perplexing metaphysical issues, but it is also a drama about what keeps the human spirit alive even when faced with the worst suffering and impending death."

 

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