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 Hildegards success, and the young Richardis who worships Hildegard both as an intellectual role model and a mother figure.
2009
HD
110min
Germany
German
Margarethe von Trotta
Heino Ferch
Barbara Sukowa
Sunnyi Melles
Paula Kalenberg
Lena Stolze
Hannah Herzsprung
Devid Striesow
Annemarie Düringer
Dagmar Sachse
woman director
christianity
nunhood
christian film
saint
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