Amazon.com: Amen: Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ulrich Mühe, Michel Duchaussoy, Ion Caramitru, Marcel Iures, Friedrich von Thun, Antje Schmidt, Hanns Zischler, Sebastian Koch, Erich Hallhuber, Burkhard Heyl, Angus MacInnes, Bernd Fischerauer, Pierre Franckh, Patrick Blossier, Costa-Gavras, Yannick Kergoat, Jean-Claude Grumberg: Music

Track Listings

1. To Warn the World

2. Gerstein's Theme

3. Euthanasia

4. Roman Ghetto

5. Train I

6. Beyond the Spy-Hole

7. Nightmare

8. Ricardo's Deportation

9. Train II

10. Bishop's Complaint

11. Flames in the Night

12. Train III

13. In the Corridor

14. Gerstein's Theme

15. Boat to Argentina

16. Other Side

Amazon.com
From Z to Missing, and beyond, Greek filmmaker Costa-Gavras has focused his career on history-based dramas that turn on intertwined moral and political dilemmas. The director's tale of a Nazi chemist and a Vatican insider struggling against complicity in the Holocaust is gifted here by a rich, surprisingly mature score by young French composer Armand Amar. Turning on a dynamic mix of pulsing orchestra, spare piano passages (via soloist/score arranger Laurent Levesque, who also wrote "The Bishop's Complaint" cue here), melancholy alto violin solos (by Jean-Paul Minali Bella) and seasoned with everyting from the baroque to Gothic, electronically suffused soundscapes, the composer skillfully evokes the story's historical drama, yet infuses it with a sense of contemporary musical urgency. Especially gratifying is his music for "The Train," a trio of cues where Amar leans on stark, rhythmically propulsive minimalist technique to compelling dramatic effect. --Jerry McCulley

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