INDONESIA
The Jakarta Post
Sarah Steffen
The Jakarta Post
Jakarta | Thu, October 13 2016
Brutal punishments: Wolfgang (Louis Hofmann) (left) and his friend Anton (Langston Uibel) try to get away from their own personal hell in Freistatt (Sanctuary). (Courtesy of Zum goldenen Lamm/Boris Laewen)
H ow well do you really know someone, even after decades? Faced with the choice to take the easy route or to follow your conscience, do you do what is expected of you or will you do what is right?
That is what Jakob (Sebastian Blomberg), a German priest, is grappling with in Verfehlung (The Culpable) after his best friend and fellow priest Dominik (Kai Schumann) is arrested for sexually abusing a young boy in his parish. Jakob, at first in utter disbelief, starts to dig deeper and what he discovers leaves him horrified.
The character study of the alleged perpetrator, his friends and how the Catholic Church is dealing with sexual abuse amid its priests is well worth watching.
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