Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

Borgarkeri A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Kirpianuscus an expected film. because it propose a solution to an old doubt. Where was God in the Shoah time ? the film does not gives answers. but it is an impeccable solution of the question who defines the conscience of humanity after the WWII. and this is the huge virtue of film. the realism. the exposure of doubts and slices of certitudes. the need of answer. the entire Jew tradition front to one of the basic fears. and the trial. as a form of prey or as form of exorcism against fear. it is one of films who must be seen by everyone. not for understand. not for know. but for remind. to feel. and to discover the Holocaust more than a Jew problem.

Petri Pelkonen It's WWII and the place is Auschwitz aka Hell on Earth.A group of prisoners, who were sent there for no other reason than that they were Jews, put God on trial.He seems to have abandoned the Jewish people.The question is: Why does God let this happen? God on Trial (2008) is a television play written by Frank Cottrell Boyce and directed by Andy de Emmony.The play is based on an event described by Elie Wiesel in his book The Trial of God.I haven't read that, but I am reading Dawn by Wiesel.This movie has got just the right actors to play their parts.Joseph Muir plays Kapo.Joseph Altin is Isaac.Ashley Artus plays Ricard.Alexi Kaye Campbell portrays Doctor.Dominic Cooper plays Moche.Rupert Graves plays Mordechai.Lorcan Cranitch is Blockaltester.Francois Guétary plays Jacques.David de Keyser plays the part of Hugo.Eddie Marsan is Lieble.Blake Ritson is Idek.Jack Shepherd plays Kuhn.Stellan Skarsgård portrays Baumgarten.This is a very intelligent drama about people in a situation not they all anyone else for that matter can understand.It's almost haunting to listen to Baumgarten telling his story.He tells how he was an anti-Semite, until he became a Jew because of his Jewish father he didn't know.And the ending is sad and haunting.The prisoners sent to their death say a Jewish prayer, and we see them among the people of our day, who are visiting Auschwitz as tourists.If you want to watch something that will make you think, you should watch this.

drew-campbell In a freezing, filthy, overcrowded hut in Auschwitz a group of emaciated Jewish prisoners await their fate. Around half of them will be selected for the gas chamber within a couple of hours and most seem paralysed by fear, hunger and despair - but one angry inmate rails against God. His anger provokes reactions and soon the men - they are all men - agree to put God on trial, quickly organising a kind of tribunal in the traditions of their religion.This drama confronts one of the central issues of human existence - the basis of faith - and sets it in a time and place that has become a by-word for inhumanity. With writing that is emotive, intelligent and unflinching throughout complimented by a series of utterly convincing and moving performances from all the principals, this was one of the most absorbing and challenging pieces of TV drama I have witnessed in years. In fact I would go further: This ranks as one of the finest TV productions I have ever seen.For me the almost real time context lifted this play beyond another testimony to the Holocaust. The characters all know the past - indeed, they acknowledge several hideous near genocidal atrocities by their Jewish ancestors - but they don't know the future.I won't spoil the outcome but, please, seek this out. If it doesn't make you think and doesn't touch your heart, you may not be alive.

mesere In an interview the writer said he wanted to create a "debate drama" and he was wary of exploiting the "emotional petrol" of the Holocaust. In that he was very successful I must admit, if you expect anything else you will be utterly disappointed, especially if you have ever read accounts of Holocaust survivors. Spoiler alert!A group of prisoners put God on trial: why did God turn against the Jews, but has he? It goes on like this for 90 minutes. It seems the writer didn't do his research properly, there are plenty of silly mistakes, the "Jews" don't wear stars, you think there were only British Jews (one French) in Auschwitz, everything makes an unrealistic or even worse fake and cheap impression. I read it was shot in two weeks and no wonder it's such a poor production. I'm sorry but as a viewer I just don't expect long and quite boring academic speeches from starving prisoners. Interesting questions are raised but sometimes you get the impression the writer didn't want to dig too deep, sometimes the characters seem to be detached from the Holocaust, he created a "debate drama" but setting it in Auschwitz was a mistake.