Between Heaven and Hell (2017)

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Movie
Original title Between heaven and hell
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2017
length 164 minutes
Rod
Director Uwe Janson
script Stefan Dähnert ,
Marianne Wendt ,
Kai Hafemeister
production Benjamin Benedict ,
Joachim Kosack
music Michael Klaukien ,
Andreas Lonardoni
camera Michael Wiesweg
cut Melania Singer ,
Sabine Brose
occupation

Between Heaven and Hell is a historical TV film of the ZDF , directed by Uwe Janson , the occasion of the Reformation anniversary was produced. Maximilian Brückner plays the leading role as Martin Luther . The TV premiere was on October 30, 2017.

action

In 1517, Martin Luther began to turn the world upside down. The film tells how Luther's 95 theses trigger a political landslide. Luther made powerful enemies with his new ideas. He is excommunicated from the church . When he did not revoke his theses even before the emperor, the Reformation became a sure-fire success.

After the initial successes, however, Luther and his companions, including Andreas Bodenstein, Lukas Cranach and the two runaway nuns Käthe and Ottilie, struggle to find the right path. Luther got into a bitter argument about this with Thomas Müntzer. Müntzer wants to enforce a fairer world against the sovereigns too. Martin Luther, however, rejects all violence. The dispute escalates in the devastating battle of Frankenhausen . From now on Luther lives with the guilt of the deaths of thousands of farmers and Thomas Müntzer's execution.

production

The film is a ZDF commissioned production by UFA Fiction with funding from the Czech State Fund for Cinematography Film Funding. Benjamin Benedict and Joachim Kosack act as producers . The film was shot from September 26, 2016 to December 9, 2016 in the Czech Republic .

Historical inaccuracies

The film contains several historical inaccuracies. For example, Thomas Müntzer had the song “ Go out, my heart, and seek Freud ” intoned in a mass , the text of which, however, was not written by Paul Gerhardt until around 130 years later , including the melody by August Harder from the early 19th century . “Whoever wants to live now” is also sung (first evidence of the song: 1876).

When Johannes Eck meets Albrecht von Brandenburg, Eck behaves like a cardinal, whom Albrecht kisses the ring, bends his knees and calls him Eminence. However, Eck was "only" canon in Eichstätt and Albrecht of Brandenburg as Archbishop of Magdeburg and Archbishop and Elector of Mainz the highest-ranking spiritual dignitary in the Holy Roman Empire . In addition, a friendship between the wives of Luther and Müntzer is constructed based on a common monastic past. Despite the large space that Müntzer occupies in the film, his functions in Mühlhausen , where he was not only pastor but also played an important role in the city council, are not discussed. In scenes that show Luther translating the New Testament at the Wartburg , he incorrectly quotes texts from the Old Testament .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Between Heaven and Hell (2016–2017). Crew United, accessed September 12, 2017 .
  2. ↑ On the Reformation anniversary in 2017: ZDF is shooting the two-part film “Heaven and Hell”. ZDF, accessed on September 12, 2017 .