Fr. Maximilian Kolbe volunteers to join nine men in Auschwitz starvation bunker with and fights to forge a brotherhood of hope in the darkest place on earth.
UNRATED (MATURE) · 151 minutes
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WRITER AND DIRECTOR’S STORY
I lost my faith
and wanted to die.
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I got sick. An undiagnosed medical condition destroyed my life. I couldn’t sleep. My relationship ended. I could barely hold down my job. And worst of all, there was no cure—no end in sight.
The darkness closed in, and I lost my faith. I didn’t want to live anymore.
But then I remembered Kolbe.
St. Maximilian Kolbe was a priest, a writer, and a Catholic friar. During World War II, he was arrested and sent to Auschwitz for his vocal opposition to the ideologies of the day.
He watched as 10 men were condemned to die in the starvation bunker—a brutal death sentence. When one man cried out, “My wife, my children!” Kolbe stepped forward and offered his own life in exchange.
In my suffering, I kept coming back to that starvation bunker where Kolbe chose to love in the face of unimaginable suffering. I thought about how he forged a brotherhood in that darkness.
Kolbe’s story taught me how to hope, and this film is the result of that meditation.
It has been a decade in the making, demanding everything of us:
our days and nights and our life savings. It has impoverished us to the point of Kolbe’s acetic poverty- but the journey has been a pearl of hope, and a crown of sanctity to honor St. Kolbe.-Anthony D’Ambrosio
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