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...religion in a frightening way, the group is not the least bit happy about the film, which airs on Germany's ARD public-television network on March 31. In fact, Scientologists claim they are the victims of a "hate campaign" being propagated by the movement's critics. But Carl Bergengruen, the head of drama at a public broadcaster in southwest Germany who was instrumental in getting the movie made, insists that the filmmakers did not set out to vilify Scientology but to show how people can be drawn to "promises of salvation." (See the top religious stories...
...taken into the religion through the manipulative tactics of Scientology recruiters. Eventually, the husband decides to leave the group, losing not only his wife in the process but also his young child and a big portion of his family's inheritance, which his wife has donated to the church. Bergengruen says the film is loosely based on the real-life experiences of a German man named Heiner von Rönn, a onetime member of the organization. He says the filmmakers conducted exhaustive research in order to portray the religion as realistically as possible, including interviewing various former Scientology members...
...MATTER OF CONSCIENCE (312 pp.)-Werner Bergengruen-Thames & Hudson...
...Walled City. German Novelist Werner Bergengruen began writing A Matter of Conscience in 1929. By 1935, when the book was published, all Germany had become a kind of Cassano. But to Bergengruen's surprise, even the Nazi press praised A Matter of Conscience as "the Fiihrer novel of Renaissance times." Their mistake was probably not much greater than that of its readers who took the book as a sly but calculated assault on Hitlerism (500,000 copies have been sold on the Continent). The Grand Prince of this first of Bergengruen's 60 books to be published...
...Bergengruen knows that the Sperones of this world are few indeed. But in lucid, formal, unhurried prose, he makes plain the everlasting need for decency and good faith among imperfect men. Perfect solutions for human problems, he once said, are possible only "in the presence of God; but that should . . . not prevent us from continually trying to find a solution within the limitations of our daily lives...
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