Bonhoeffer (2003) on Netflix

Plot summary

A German theologian and pacifist, Dietrich Bonhoeffer presses his Church to stand with the Jews while he speaks out against Adolf Hitler. During those years he writes three books, Cost of Discipleship, Letters and Papers from Prison and Ethics, which are considered classics in religion and ethics. Shot on location in Germany and in the United States, the documentary records interviews with relatives, friends, students and colleagues who knew him at first hand, including the last interview given by his closest friend and biographer, Eberhard Bethge, and an interview with Ruth Alice von Bismarck, sister of his fiancée, Maria von Wedemeyer.