(Hope this hasn't come up before. The search I did came up empty but I may have missed something.)
This isn't easy to watch but it is powerful, moving and in my opinion required viewing. From the video description:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5caAug5n8Zk?rel=0
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1173494/
This isn't easy to watch but it is powerful, moving and in my opinion required viewing. From the video description:
Quote:God on Trial is a 2008 BBC/WGBH Boston television play written by Frank Cottrell Boyce, starring Antony Sher, Rupert Graves and Jack Shepherd. The play takes place in Auschwitz during World War II. The Jewish prisoners put God on trial in absentia for abandoning the Jewish people. The question is if God has broken his covenant with the Jewish people by allowing the Nazis to commit genocide.
The play is based on an event described by Elie Wiesel in his book The Trial of God, though Boyce describes this tale as "apocryphal". According to Boyce, producer Mark Redhead "had been trying to turn the story into a film for almost 20 years by the time he called me in 2005 to write the screenplay."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5caAug5n8Zk?rel=0
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1173494/
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
