A piece about the conflicted history the Passion Play in Oberammergau, Germany. If you guessed it has to do with Hitler, you would be right.
What's more, Stückl's staging depicts Jesus' Jerusalem as an oppressed, occupied city, and Pontius Pilate is now the first person, not the last, to demand that he be silenced. Stephan Burkart plays Pilate with a sardonic, Nazified swagger that would be perfect for "Inglourious Basterds," and it's easy to remember that this Bavarian village is only a couple of hours away from the Dachau concentration camp: a Golgotha on German soil. Oberammergau may be remote, but it's profoundly in touch, keeping the faith in surprising new ways.
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