This may be a movie to look for.

If you like this kind of thing.

The Ninth Day, which is described as:

This fact-based World War II drama focuses not on military maneuvers but on life-and-death theological debates. Oscar-winning director Volker Schlondorff ("The Tin Drum") recounts the trials of the Rev. Henri Kremer, an anti-Nazi Catholic priest from Luxemburg who is imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp.

Kremer (movingly played by Ulriich Matthes, who portrayed Josef Goebbels in "Downfall" earlier this year), is released for a visit to his family, where suave SS leader Gebhardt (August Diehl) aims to make him a political pawn of the Reich. He orders Kremer, a righteous and respected scholar, to persuade the local bishop to support the Nazi occupiers.

If he succeeds, Kremer, his family, and Luxemburg's Catholic community will be spared. Failure will mean Kremer's return to the death camp and harsh persecution for those he leaves behind. Gebhardt, himself a former seminarian, plays on Kremer's fears and physical weakness, He seductively argues that only the Nazis can defend the church against atheistic communism and that Judas was not a traitor but a servant of God's will.

While the pacing is a bit slow, the story line is engrossing.

Here is a Godspy article on the director of "The Ninth Day."

More reviews. The movie is purportedly based on a true story, but that can't be right because we know that the Catholic church was collaborating with the Nazis according to James Carroll.