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Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780967651200
Format: Color, Full length, NTSC
ISBN: 0967651204
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 115 minutes
Sales Rank: 6595
Theatrical Release Date: September 01, 1989
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In and around one village in Nazi-occupied France, 5,000 Jews were taken in and sheltered--by 5,000 Christians! 'Weapons of the Spirit' is the story of a unique conspiracy of goodness, a story filmmaker Pierre Sauvage was born to tell: he was born and protected at that time in that singular oasis of peace--Le Chambon.
Le Chambon-sur-Lignon was a tiny Protestant farming village in the mountains of south-central France. Defying the Nazis and the French government that was collaborating with the Nazis, the villagers of the area of Le Chambon provided a safe haven throughout the war for whoever knocked on their door.
Most of the villagers were proud descendants of the Huguenots, the first Protestants in Catholic France. They remembered their own history of persecution, and it mattered to them. They also read the Bible, and tried to heed the admonition to love your neighbor as yourself.
'The responsibility of Christians,' their pastor, André Trocmé, had reminded them the day after France surrendered to Nazi Germany, 'is to resist the violence that will be brought to bear on their consciences through the weapons of the spirit.'
There were many other uncelebrated individual and collective acts of goodwill and righteousness throughout the dark war years. But nowhere else did a persistent and successful moral consensus develop on a scale approaching what happened in the area of Le Chambon.
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As the Nazi war machine marched across Europe and Jews were rounded up and killed, a small town in France became an unlikely haven for the persecuted. The small village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, which was inhabited mostly by Huguenots (devout Protestants whose own history involved being persecuted), became a place where families took in Jews and hid them in their houses and on their farms. The villagers risked their lives, and their bravery is evident in interviews with residents who recall the Nazis searching house to house for Jews in hiding. Produced by Pierre Sauvage, who was born in the village while his parents were being sheltered, this documentary is a moving look at ordinary people who performed extraordinary feats. What is perhaps most impressive is how the elderly villagers interviewed on camera seem to think what they did wasn't very heroic at all, but rather a simple expression of their religious faith. It is humbling to hear them describe how it was impossible for them to do anything other than protect their fellow humans from great evil. This edition of the documentary is introduced by Bill Moyers, and also features an interview Moyers conducted with filmmaker Sauvage. --Robert J. McNamara
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Rating: - Inspiring story
Weapons of the Spirit is the story of a small French town that saved at least 3000 Jews during the Second World War. Their history as a Heugenot (Protestant) community ... Read More
Rating: - Unforgettable
Weapons of the Spirit
I searched for several years to find this film. It is powerful, memorable, an inspiration. It has impacted my life.
Rating: - A soul-stirring film
Weapons of the Spirit is one of the most touching, enlightening and disturbing films I've seen in many years. The villagers of Le Chambon, mostly poor, Protestant farmers ... Read More
Rating: - "the stories of the righteous are ... cornerstones to the future."
In 1984, when Pierre Sauvage was in post-production on "Weapons of the Spirit," as he is now on "And Crown Thy Good," he wrote an article for MOMENT magazine in which he explains ... Read More
Rating:  - Fair and Moving Documentary
Sauvage does a great job of portaying the folk of Le Chambon in their magnificent modesty. He allows the characters to speak at length and refrains from melodrama for the most part. ... Read More
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