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As the world teeters on the brink of destruction, Dietrich Bonhoeffer joins a deadly conspiracy to assassinate Hitler, risking his faith and his fate to save millions of Jews from genocide. Niemoeller actor August Diehl has previously played an SS Gestapo officer in Dishonorable Men (2009) and a German citizen who resisted conscription into the German army in A Hidden Life (2019). Neither protest nor violence can touch it. Rationalizing is of no use. Facts that contradict personal prejudices can simply be made to believe – indeed, they can be contradicted by the criticism of a fool, and if they are undeniable, they can be brushed aside as trivial exceptions.. Well filmed and acted. The film, however, spends an inordinate amount of time on Bonhoeffer’s 1930 trip to New York and his alleged fascination with gospel and jazz. In fact, his later prison letters reveal the lasting influence of traditional Lutheran chorales and Paul Gerhardt’s hymns on his theology and piety. There is no mention of his engagement to Maria von Wedemeyer (eighteen years his junior), with whom he exchanged dozens of letters in prison (1943-1945), later published as “Love Letters from Cell 92.” It was Maria’s grandmother who financed the seminary at the Confessing Church in Finkenwalde, where Bonhoeffer advocated a kind of “new monasticism” for seminarians—with traditional chorales and organized psalm prayer. A plot that weaved Maria into the end of Bonhoeffer’s life would have raised some compelling questions, such as: Why would you marry her if your world was about to end? Despite all this, it’s good that Bonhoeffer’s film has been made, bringing the story of his fight for justice to a wider audience.