"Die Macht der Entscheidung"

In the organizer's words:

2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. We are showing three films to accompany the "Remembering the victims" series of events organized by the Department of Culture.

"The power of decision"

In August 2021, theater and filmmakers from Wiesbaden and the surrounding area shot a short film at original locations in Wiesbaden. The short film illuminates the commitment of the people in and around the Bergkirche and the Confessing Church in Wiesbaden in a multi-layered and differentiated way. It shows their personal fates before the beginning of the Second World War, that resistance is an attitude and that even in small ways it can make a difference.

The early 1930s in Wiesbaden: A new pastor of the German Christians is appointed in the Bergkirche church to divide the resistant congregation. Franz-Ludwig von Bernus, pastor of the Confessing Church, resists him. Else, a young woman newly in love, is looking for work. Rudi, her boyfriend, has his own idea of a German woman. And Heinrich, a confirmand, is also feeling the pressure of the political changes. What will they decide?

Germany 2022, 25 minutes, FSK: unscreened