‘Standing up against the devil’: how the far right tried to co-opt Dietrich Bonhoeffer biopic

In the US, Todd Komarnicki’s biopic of the theologian murdered by the Nazis was marketed using Maga rhetoric. The film-maker explains the heartbreak this caused him

A Hollywood veteran’s biopic about an anti-Nazi resistance martyr, which was nearly engulfed by the Trump-era culture wars during its US release, is on its way to Europe this month, with the director hoping its message against the extreme right lands this time.

The movie Bonhoeffer is based on the true story of pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was executed at the Flossenbürg concentration camp on the orders of Adolf Hitler in April 1945, just weeks before the Nazi leader’s own suicide.

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