Atonement (film) bombing by the Luftwaffe whilst the station was being used as an air-raid shelter occurred on 15 October 1940; the bombing and the subsequent flooding of the station actually occurred the previous evening (14 October 1940). During the scene in 1935 where Robbie writes and discards letters for Cecilia, he keeps playing a record of the love duet from Act 1 of "La bohème" by Puccini, with Victoria de los Ángeles and Jussi Björling, which was only recorded in 1956. Atonement (film) Atonement is a 2007 romantic war drama film directed by Joe Wright and based on Ian McEwan's 2001
Atonement in Christianity of satisfaction for a debt. But we can never rest in these material figures as though they were literal and adequate. As both Abelard and Bernard remind us, the Atonement is ...a sacrifice... It was by this inward sacrifice of obedience unto death, ...that Christ paid the debt to justice." As expressed by Pope Pius XI in his encyclical "Miserentissimus Redemptor", in the Roman Catholic tradition the concepts of atonement and redemption are often seen as being inherently related. And atonement is often balanced with specific Acts of Reparation which relate the sufferings and death of Christ to the forgiveness