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...Greek Passion, by Nikos Kazantzakis. The temptation, betrayal and death of a Passion-play Christus; an impressive modern parable by the author of Zorba the Greek (TIME...
Dreams on the Mountain. Each of the chosen actors of the Lycovrissi Passion is instructed by the priest to fix his mind on his coming role. Manolios, the Christus, is the first to find his mind divided. He lifts his thoughts to sacred things, but his fiancee, panting for marriage, keeps bringing him back to the earthy. Manolios retreats to a mountain and meditates, only to find the Lycovrissi Magdalen dancing through his dreams...
Martin Niemöller began as a fighting man. After serving as a U-boat commander in World War I, he became a popular Lutheran minister at Berlin's fashionable Jesus Christus Kirche. The Nazis found him cooperative at first, but by 1937 he was arrested for his stubborn refusal to knuckle under to their church-control regulations. He was kept in concentration camp for eight years...
...Anton Preisinger. The change had nothing to do with Lang's Nazi past (ex-Nazi Preisinger was also fined by the same court), but because Lang doubted whether, at 58, he could stand the physical ordeal of the role. Each performance lasts eight hours, during which the Christus, after carrying a heavy cross, must hang upon it for 30 minutes...
Then Father Molnar took the visiting American to the house of a local Communist, a Kovacs, who has read the pages of history in the way the priest considered correct. As they entered, Comrade Molnar offered the greeting: "Laudatur Jesus Christus" (Praised be Jesus Christ...