Frederick Olessi’s film, “Bonhoeffer”, filmed and edited by FRSProd’s Robert Bullington airs on Princeton Community Television, the week of September 12-24, 2017

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the most poignant Christian theological martyrs of the 20th Century, emerged very early as a implacable foe of Adolph Hitler and the Nazi party after they seized political power in 1930’s Germany. He was a theology student in the United States but returned to Germany to join the vocal Christian resistance to what he saw as a godless regime. On the periphery of the 1944 plot against Hitler, Hitler himself — a week before his own suicide — condemned Bonhoeffer to share the same agonizing death as those who directly plotted against him by reportedly having Bonhoeffer hung naked with a noose of piano wire. The extraordinary actor Philip Rieschick portrays the courageous and reflective Bonhoeffer at the hour of his death.

Airtimes
Sept. 12 at 9 pm
Sept. 14 at 8 pm
Sept. 17 at 1:30 pm
Sept. 20 at noon
Sept. 23 at 11 am
Sept. 24 at 8 pm

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