The Jewess - Edith Stein
| Movie | |
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| German title | The Jewess - Edith Stein |
| Original title | Siódmy pokój |
| Country of production | Italy , Hungary , Poland , France , Germany |
| original language | Hungarian |
| Publishing year | 1995 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Márta Mészáros |
| script | Márta Mészáros, Roberta Mazzoni , Éva Pataki |
| production |
Ryszard Chutkowski , Francesco Pamphili |
| music | Moni Ovadia |
| camera | Piotr Sobociński |
| cut | Ugo De Rossi |
| occupation | |
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Die Jüdin - Edith Stein (Original: Siódmy pokój ) is an Italian - Polish - French - Hungarian - German film biography from 1995 about Edith Stein (1891–1942), a German nun of Jewish origin who died in Auschwitz and was written by Pope Johannes Paul II was beatified in 1987 and canonized in 1998.
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Wroclaw at the turn of the century : Edith Stein grew up in a strictly religious Jewish family. At a young age she was interested in philosophy , which she later studied in Göttingen and Freiburg . When Edith converted to Catholicism , her mother Augusta's heart was broken. As a result, most of the contact with her family is lost. In the 1920s Edith worked as a teacher at the girls' school St. Magdalena in Speyer and publicly criticized the right-wing populist politician Franz Heller.
After the rise of the Nazis and the beginning persecution of the Jews put an end to her teaching activities, Edith joined the particularly Spartan Carmelite order in Cologne in 1933 , where she was given the name Sister Teresia Benedicta a Cruce. She finds it difficult to renounce worldly goods, but as a nun she finds her personal fulfillment. Shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War , she fled the Nazis to the Netherlands . Franz Heller, who has meanwhile become a prominent Nazi, sees in revenge that Edith is deported to Auschwitz and murdered there in the gas chamber in 1942.
background
The Polish actor Jan Nowicki , who plays the Nazi Franz Heller in the film, is the husband of the director Márta Mészáros , in whose films he has appeared regularly since the mid-1970s.
The Jewess - Edith Stein was presented at the 1995 Venice Film Festival . In Germany , the film was first shown on television on October 11, 1998.
Reviews
"With its strict creative will and a symbolic imagery, [the film] succeeds in opening up Edith Stein's spiritual world and making both political and internal conflicts accessible."
“ The Jewess - Edith Stein is a well-intentioned, but not very moving tribute to the extraordinary Edith Stein […]. The Hungarian director Márta Mészáros lacks the sensitivity for handling this classic tragedy. "
Awards
At the Venice International Film Festival , Márta Mészáros and Maia Morgenstern received the Elvira Notari Prize. Mészáros was also awarded the OCIC Award.
DVD release
- The Jewess - Edith Stein . KFW 2009
Web links
- The Jewess - Edith Stein in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Pictures for the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Jewess - Edith Stein. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ " The Seventh Chamber is a well-meaning but uninvolving tribute to the remarkable Edith Stein […]. Magyar director Márta Mészáros lacks subtlety in her handling of the classic tragedy." , cf. variety.com ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
