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The Power of Forgiveness
from FIRST RUN FEATURES
starring Elie Weisel, Thich Nhat Hanh, Thomas Moore
directed by Martin Doblmeier

Features:

• Color
• DVD-Video
• NTSC
• Widescreen

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• The Beginning of a Dialogue
  The film is great as an overview. It is not nor should it be an in-depth or comprehensive study of forgiveness. Its sets the stage for further discussion and I plan to use it as such. This should just be the beginning of worthwhile discussions on what forgiveness is, how do we accomplish the act and how can it be applied to individuals and communities.

• disappointing
  very disappointed in content....expected it to be about the Amish, but was about a lot of different tragedies and tended to ramble and not go into any depth with any of the subjects...very impersonal for what I was expecting....wouldn't recommend

• Elie Wiesel has never forgiven Germans and hates Palestinians
  It is very unfortunate that this worthy project has been marred by Elie Wiesel, a follower of the revenge-filled Talmud who has never acknowledged his relationship with the Irgun terrorists who massacred the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin or decried the slaughter in Deir Yassin in any way. Of the Germans, Wiesel wrote the terrible words (which he has never recanted): "Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate - healthy, virile hate - for what the German personifies and for what... more info

• THE POWER OF FORGIVENESS!!
  What does it mean to forgive someone? How do you go about forgiving? Does it mean that we forgo justice? Is forgiving simply a spiritual experience between an individual and God or does it play out on many different levels? These and other questions are addressed in this look at forgiveness by filmmaker Martin Doblmeier (Bonhoeffer). It looks at real life examples of forgiveness such as the Amish in the wake of the killing of five Amish schoolgirls that ripped their community. It shows the speech Elie... more info

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