Zwingli (film)
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| Original title | Zwingli |
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| Country of production | Switzerland |
| original language | Zurich German , Swiss German |
| Publishing year | 2019 |
| length | 128 minutes |
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| Director | Stefan Haupt |
| script | Simone Schmid |
| production |
Anne Walser , Mario Krebs |
| music |
Diego Baldenweg , Nora Baldenweg , Lionel Vincent Baldenweg |
| camera | Michael Hammon |
| cut | Kaya Inan |
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Zwingli is a 2019 film by Stefan Haupt about the work of the reformer Huldrych Zwingli in the city of Zurich from 1519 until his violent death in the Second Kappel War in 1531.
action
The film shows Zwingli's arrival in Zurich and the astonishment of the churchgoers in the Grossmünster when he deviates from the Latin liturgy for the first time in a church service and begins to explain the Gospel of Matthew in German . The public translation of the Bible as a joint work of all reformist priest in the Church is old believers canons disturbed symbolic.
The important role of the secular city council , which attests to Zwingli in a disputation that it does not represent any verifiable infidelity to the Bible, is expressed as well as the constraints that still exist. Among other things, these lead to Zwingli's radical supporter and Baptist , Felix Manz , being sentenced to death and drowned. Another comrade-in-arms, Jakob Kaiser , is burned as a heretic in Schwyz.
Zwingli's wife Anna Reinhart tries to dissuade him by referring to his earlier statements on mercenaryism from seeking the battle against the old-believing Central Swiss in 1531 , from which he and Anna's eldest son will not return.
production
With a budget of 6 million francs, the film was a large-scale production by Swiss standards. It was recorded during 37 days of shooting from February to April 2018. The film had its Swiss premiere on January 17, 2019. Zwingli was seen between 28,000 and 37,000 times on the weekend of its cinema release, depending on the source, and was thus immediately received the top of the Swiss cinema charts. Overall, the film reached a little over 238,000 cinema viewers in Switzerland. Making it one Zwingli according ProCinema, the Swiss Association for Cinema and Film Distribution, the 20 most successful Swiss feature films of the past 40 years.
The film was produced by C-Films , EIKON and SRF .
Film music
The choral and orchestral film music was composed by Diego Baldenweg with Nora Baldenweg & Lionel Baldenweg . The lavish film music production was recorded with violinist Daniel Hope and the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, among others . The Zwingli soundtrack, published by Great Garbo Music , was noted and discussed by film music critics around the world.
The Zwingli film music was the first Swiss film music to be nominated for the World Soundtrack Award (Public Choice) as “Best Score of the Year”.
reception
The Neue Zürcher Zeitung mentions that Zwingli never put himself in the foreground during his lifetime and is therefore hardly suitable as a hero. In addition, the production rarely leaves the realm of solid information when it comes to portraying its main characters: "The main characters remain pale because they weren't allowed to break free from the corset of what can somehow be considered historically guaranteed." The viewer is at most surprised that he is not bored.
Radio DRS 2 (context) discussed the film in an hourly program and highlighted historical, social, religious and media-sociological aspects, in particular the special handling of film music. The sociologist of religion shows u. v. a. critically points out that the dissolution of the women's monastery was the end of the possibility for women to lead a self-determined, intellectual life.
The Weltwoche has the Swiss church historian and Zwingli expert Peter Opitz carry out a fact check. He formulates the difficulty of a cinematic implementation of the material as follows: As a historical work, the film must adhere to historical events, but must not be a meticulous juxtaposition of facts: «Here it is important to stay within the framework of what the sources say and to bring things to the point in an exemplary manner, courageously and intelligently. " This is exactly what the film managed to do in an impressive manner several times. Only the very last sentence of the film has to be described as a minor industrial accident.
Trivia
Charlotte Schwab , the actress who played Anna Reinhart's mother and an opponent of Zwingli, is the birth mother of Zwingli actor Max Simonischek .
Awards and nominations (selection)
- Nomination in the category Best Actress (Sarah Sophia Meyer)
- Nomination in the category Best Actor (Max Simonischek)
' World Soundtrack Awards 2019'
- Nomination in the Public Choice category "Best Score of the Year" ( Diego Baldenweg with Nora Baldenweg & Lionel Baldenweg )
See also
Web links
- Zwingli website of the film
- Zwingli in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Zwingli at swissfilms.ch
Individual evidence
- ↑ Zwingli - This is how a day of shooting on the film set works. March 13, 2018, accessed August 8, 2019 .
- ↑ Dominik Hug: His mommy plays the bad mother-in-law. In: Blick.ch . April 7, 2018, accessed January 29, 2019 .
- ↑ ProCinema, Swiss Association for Cinema and Film Distribution: Zwingli. Retrieved August 8, 2019 .
- ↑ ProCinema: Movie database Country: CH Switzerland. Retrieved August 8, 2019 .
- ^ Movie Music International
- ↑ Cinema Musica - Swiss film Zwingli with film music on a grand scale
- ↑ Movie Music UK - The best under the radar scores of 2019
- ↑ Swiss composer trio nominated for World Soundtrack Awards
- ↑ These siblings bring pictures to life - and now they measure themselves against Hollywood greats
- ↑ Thomas Ribi: "Zwingli" shows almost everything that is known about Zwingli. But the reformer himself remains a void. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . January 9, 2019, accessed January 29, 2019 .
- ↑ Michael Sennhauser, Jenny Berg: Zwingli on the canvas. In: DRS . January 15, 2019, accessed June 7, 2019 .
- ^ Peter Opitz: "Politischer Reformer" The film "Zwingli" has got off to a successful start in the cinema. How credible is the work from a historical perspective? In: Die Weltwoche . January 23, 2019, accessed January 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Nominations for the Swiss Film Prize 2019 . Accessed January 31, 2019.
- ↑ Five film award nominations for "Wolkenbruch" . Article dated January 30, 2019, accessed January 31, 2019.
- ↑ World Soundtrack Awards Revealed