Culpable (The)
- Director: Gerd Schneider
- Writer: Gerd Schneider
- Producer: Felix Eisele
CGiii Comment
Another hefty kick in balls for the vatican...
There are bad priests and there are good priests...aren't they all meant to be good?!?
Anyway...this is a story about a systematic, priestly abuser of boys and the one good priest in this particular diocese...who battles with his conscience.
The vatican is highly-proficient at buying silence...dishing out gagging-orders willy-nilly...regardless of the consequences...such compassion, what integrity!
Money absolves...pay them off, drop the court case...well, money doesn't erase the memories...the effects and the fallout that the victims and families have to suffer...
This is a bold film...it makes no fuss of the issues...it blatantly states that there is a right way of dealing with these papa-edo-priests and there is wrong way...the hierarchy tends to favour the wrong way...well, the old ex-pope paved that route with a carpet of compensation cheques!
With fine performances all round...it's another example of how this heinous institution gets a justified bashing and, like water off a duck's back, manages to face its public with its slimey and insipid integrity.
Not a pleasant film...but, an effective one.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
The life and faith of a Catholic prison minister is shaken when his friend and colleague is taken into custody under suspicion of sexual abuse, which drives him to discover the truth.
Cast & Characters
Sebastian Blomberg as Jakob;
Kai Schumann as Dominik;
Jan Messutat as Oliver;
Hartmut Becker as Kardinal Schoeller;
Anna Maria Bergold as Pfarrgemeinderatsmitglied;
Sandra Borgmann as Vera Rubin;
Oskar Bokelmann as Mike Rubin;
Anne Due as Anja Zdrojewski;
Valerie Koch as Susanne Weihe;
Sebastian Kowski as Raul;
Steffen Lenk as JVA Guard;
George Tounas as Priest;
Bernd Wurch as Arbeiter / JVA-Beamter;
Daniel Reimling as Mitglied der Gemeinde