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Synopsis: 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.
Production: Zeitgeist Films
  1 win & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Metacritic:
68
Rotten Tomatoes:
82%
UNRATED
Year:
2009
110 min
$300,000
Website
402 Views


Let me go! You are the devil!

Chrysoprase.

Hold it against your throat

until it gets warm.

Afterwards, you'll feel no more fury.

I want each of you

to show me a herb you know.

Tetterwort.

- And?

It's for treating warts.

Sister Berta?

- Tansy. For rheumatism and gout.

Wormseed. To treat fleas.

- Good.

The milk thistle.

- Well?

Sister Clara?

- Yarrow, for healing wounds.

Good.

But plants and stones,

can only release their healing powers

when man is at one with nature,

and with God.

First our souls must be healed.

And then,

the body can follow.

Hurry, God, to redeem me!

Lord...

please help me.

Brother Volmar.

I asked you here

because I must make a confession.

I've not told another soul yet.

Since early childhood...

I've had visions.

When I was just three years old,

I saw such a great light,

that my soul trembled.

I saw things

that other people didn't see.

I was different from the others.

And I felt ashamed of that.

I don't think that's a sin.

The sin I committed

is not that I did something wrong,

but that...

I refused to do something

that I was appointed to do.

A few months ago...

there was a blazing light...

flashing with lightning,

coming down from the sky...

It flowed through my brain

and my breast,

and my heart.

It was like a flame

that didn't burn,

but warmed like the sun.

And I heard a voice saying:

"I am the living light

that illuminates all.

You, O mortal,

are appointed

to reveal that which is hidden.

Write down...

what you hear and see. "

You didn't hear the voice in a dream?

I was fully conscious.

What were you afraid of for so long?

Of people's skepticism.

Were you not more afraid

that your visions weren't sent by God,

but by the Devil?

Oh, no.

In such a sublime light,

in such splendor...

only the Almighty can appear.

Did the voice explain to you

what you saw?

I am to warn mankind.

To help him find his way back to God.

Then you must heed the voice.

We have a seer among us.

A seer who receives messages from God.

Who is it?

The magistra.

Yes, Father.

I request your permission

to help her transcribe her visions.

And what if it's the Devil's work?

I'm sure it's not.

May I show you one of her visions?

She wrote it down without my consent?

I encouraged her to do it.

You know that must be punished?

- I'll face it gladly, Father.

"Again I heard the voice from Heaven.

It said to me:

'God, who called the universe into being,

created everything so that His name

be recognized and worshipped.

Through His creation He does not

only proclaim the visible and temporal,

but also that which is invisible

and eternal. "'

It would certainly be

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Margarethe von Trotta

Margarethe von Trotta (born 21 February 1942) is a German film director who has been referred to as a "leading force" of the New German Cinema movement. Von Trotta's extensive body of work has won awards internationally. She was married to and collaborated with director Volker Schlöndorff. Although they made a successful team, von Trotta felt she was seen as secondary to Schlöndorff. Subsequently, she established a solo career for herself and became "Germany’s foremost female film director, who has offered the most sustained and successful female variant of Autorenkino in postwar German film history." Certain aspects of von Trotta’s work have been compared to Ingmar Bergman’s features from the 1960s and 1970s. She says that it was thanks to Bergman's films that she "‘fell in love’ with the medium and its possibilities for representing inner psychic worlds."Von Trotta has been called "the world’s leading feminist filmmaker." The predominant aim of her films is to create new representations of women. Her films are concerned with relationships between and among women (sisters, best friends, etc.), as well as with relationships between women and men, and involve political setting. Nevertheless, she rejects the suggestion that she makes "women’s films". more…

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