Modern Martyrdom – Titus Techera

Dietrich Bonhoeffer the movie is an attempt to deal with this problem, says Frida Ghitis .

Ghitis: It's obvious, though not something we talk about, that Christianity will outlive Hollywood .

He says the film offers an alternative genre to the hagiography: the Bildungsroman .

The actors playing Bonhoeff ’s two religious inspirations are especially important to the weight of the story, Ghitis says.

The story has three aspects: faith, the political crisis of the twentieth-century democracies, and the concern with the dignity of the human being as an individual.

Frida Ghitis : Bonhoeffer could not possibly recreate an authentic vision of Wilhelmine , Weimer, or Nazi Germany .

She says the film is a typical Hollywood production, but it's not obvious why they should be denied a competent portrayal of the history of America ’s great foe.

Ghitis says the movie is a way of understanding at least two millennia of Christian faith.

Through this drama, Bonhoeffer attempts to articulate the community of martyrs.

He has faced controversy in the German -speaking world, as German and Swiss newspapers published complaints about political extremism.