New Film Pays Fitting Tribute To The Christian Martyr Of Auschwitz

The life of St. Maximilian Kolbe is the world’s foil. His triumph is not of worldly conquest or acclaim, but of surrender to God. It is precisely this paradox of victory through sacrifice that the Triumph of the Heart brings to the screen beginning with Kolbe’s final chapter in a starvation cell in Auschwitz. The cell is dark and dirty. Its prisoners are sorrowful; their dread is palpable. If you know Kolbe’s story, you know he will carry them through the worst days of their life, but you still wonder,...