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Sex & Nudity

No nudity, but Luther kisses his wife in bed and Katharina is shown rising up in bed when Luther is called away by an emergency. In Rome, prostitutues are openly solicting among clerics and Luther talks about how Rome has brothels there just for clerics, Luther comic drawings show Catholic cardinals's buttocks as "asses". Tetzel boasts that with the indulgences he sells, he can even save the soul of the man who "violates the Mother of God Himself".

Violence & Gore

A town is shown with many dead peasants' corpses (results of the Peasants War), a man is shown being somewhat offscreen being burned alive, an unhappy boy is shown hanging by his neck from suicide. A church is full of dead bodies, another result of the Peasant's War. Luther calls himself "a man of blood" when asked by Katharina why he is so hesitant to get married, as he expects to die a martyr's death. A man burns his hand and we see the burns when preaching about the fires of Hell to an audience of potentional indulgence buyers, rioting peasants attack monks and a priest in Wittenberg's church during one of the Peasants War uprisings.

Profanity

Multiple cuss words, mostly d**m, H**l and one s**t.

None really, except people appear to drink wine (?) at Luther's wedding feast to Katharina Von Bora. Film starts with Luther lifting (and spilling) a chalice of wine while saying his first Mass and serves wine to Communion receipients before his excommunication.

Violence by both sides of the 16th Century's Reformation. Discussions about burning Luther over his teachings. Luther shoves a flaming stick in the face of a rebel during a Peasants War uprising in a church to chase the man away.

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Rated PG-13 for disturbing images of violence

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