The Statement (2003)
December 12, 2003Release Date
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The Statement is a 2003 drama film directed by Norman Jewison and starring Michael Caine, Tilda Swinton, Jeremy Northam, Alan Bates, William Hutt, John Neville and Charlotte Rampling.
Based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Brian Moore, the screenplay by Ronald Harwood is inspired by the true story of Paul Touvier, a Vichy French police official who was indicted after World War II for ordering the execution of seven Jews in retaliation for the French Resistance's assassination of Vichy France minister Philippe Henriot. For decades after the war, he escaped trial thanks to an intricate web of protection, which allegedly included senior members of the Roman Catholic priesthood. He was arrested in 1989 inside a Traditionalist Catholic priory in Nice and was convicted in 1994. He died in prison in 1996, at the age of 81.
The Statement is the last film by Jewison before his retirement. It was also Bates's final theatrical role prior to his death in the year of the film’s release.