Dal teatro al cinema: la rappresentazione del Lager nazista nel passaggio dal testo teatrale Il vicario (1963) di Rolf Hochhuth al suo adattamento cinematografico Amen. (2002) di Costa-Gavras
From Theatre to Cinema: The Representation of the Nazi Lager in the Transition from the Play The Deputy (1963) by Rolf Hochhuth to Its Film Adaptation Amen. (2002) by Costa-Gavras

Summary/Abstract: Amen. (2002), by Costa-Gavras, is the film adaptation of the famous play The Deputy (1963), by Rolf Hochhuth. In general, Costa Gavras’ work is very faithful to Hochhuth’s original text: the intrigue is respected, same as the characters. Therefore, if we have chosen, with the following study, to focus our attention on the passage of Hochhuth’s text from the stage to the screen, it is in virtue of a purely aesthetic detail: in particular, we refer to those few scenes in which, both in the play and in the film, the dramatic action suddenly shifts to the interior of a Nazi extermination camp. So, how to represent the extermination, the Lager, on a theatrical stage? And how to do it, instead, on the screen? Given the way in which in theatre, possibly drawing more on the symbolic than on scenic verisimilitude, Hochhuth was able to dramatize horror, what solutions of continuity or rupture should be adopted, on the contrary, in cinema?

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