The life story of the multi-talented German nun Hildegard von Bingen. The film portrays an original woman - best known as a composer and religious visionary - whose grand claims often run ...
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A look at the life of philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt, who reported for The New Yorker on the war crimes trial of the Nazi Adolf Eichmann.
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Director:
Margarethe von Trotta
Stars:
Katja Riemann,
Armin Mueller-Stahl,
Karin Dor
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Director:
Margarethe von Trotta
Stars:
Jutta Lampe,
Barbara Sukowa,
Rüdiger Vogler
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Hildegard of Bingen was one of the most remarkable women of the Middle Ages--an Abbess and woman of God, a visionary, naturalist, playwright, political moralist, and composer. Born in 1098,... See full summary »
Director:
James Runcie
Stars:
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Janet Suzman,
Peter Vaughan
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Director:
Margarethe von Trotta
Stars:
Corinna Harfouch,
Meret Becker,
August Zirner
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Director:
Margarethe von Trotta
Stars:
Katja Riemann,
Barbara Sukowa,
Matthias Habich
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Director:
Margarethe von Trotta
Stars:
Hanna Schygulla,
Angela Winkler,
Peter Striebeck
The life story of the multi-talented German nun Hildegard von Bingen. The film portrays an original woman - best known as a composer and religious visionary - whose grand claims often run counter to the patriarchal world around her. The monks and nuns at the convent become a kind of family, offering both confidants and enemies. For example Jutta, struggling with her jealousy of Hildegard's success, and the young Richardis who worships Hildegard both as an intellectual role model and a mother figure.Written by
Göteborg International Film Festival
In church the language at the time of Hildegard was Latin. The priests/monks would have pray only in Latin (though speak their first languages). See more »
The movie follows the life of Hildegard Von Bingen a famous medieval nun/magistra/convent founder who had religious visions and was interested in science, music, medicine, and much more...
The cinematography was absolutely beautiful and the story captivated me even with its modern feminist sensibilities every where....from the suitably milque toast priest Volmar to her renaissance passion for all intellectual pursuits....The cliché over veneration of books learning etc comes off as nerdy and dumb when exaggerated too much as it was in this movie. That said I wish I had read up on Hildegard before watching; there was apparently much substance to the woman--the movie fails here..having her oohing and aawing over stacks of books or staging an avant garde (for the era) play doesn't do her credit.
The part of her that captivated me of course were the visions. Everyone hopes things like that are not mental illness. You grow to really like this woman and that is the key to good cinema no?
The character of Richardis is good too...more than a hint of female homosexuality that was sublimated by both parties.
This movie would have been a 10 if the visions had been shown better and the pseudo intellectual nerd and feminist stuff toned down.
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The movie follows the life of Hildegard Von Bingen a famous medieval nun/magistra/convent founder who had religious visions and was interested in science, music, medicine, and much more...
The cinematography was absolutely beautiful and the story captivated me even with its modern feminist sensibilities every where....from the suitably milque toast priest Volmar to her renaissance passion for all intellectual pursuits....The cliché over veneration of books learning etc comes off as nerdy and dumb when exaggerated too much as it was in this movie. That said I wish I had read up on Hildegard before watching; there was apparently much substance to the woman--the movie fails here..having her oohing and aawing over stacks of books or staging an avant garde (for the era) play doesn't do her credit.
The part of her that captivated me of course were the visions. Everyone hopes things like that are not mental illness. You grow to really like this woman and that is the key to good cinema no?
The character of Richardis is good too...more than a hint of female homosexuality that was sublimated by both parties.
This movie would have been a 10 if the visions had been shown better and the pseudo intellectual nerd and feminist stuff toned down.
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