Vision From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen
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Director Margarethe von Trotta Screenplay Margarethe von Trotta Duration Language German
English | 6.4/10 Genre Biography, Drama Producer Markus Zimmer Country Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date September 4, 2009 (2009-09-04) (Telluride)
September 24, 2009 (2009-09-24) (Germany) Writer Margarethe von Trotta (screenplay) Music director Hildegard of Bingen, Chris Heyne Cast Barbara Sukowa (Hildegard von Bingen), Heino Ferch (Mönch Volmar), Hannah Herzsprung (Richardis von Stade), Devid Striesow (Kaiser Friedrich Barbarossa), Sunnyi Melles (Markgräfin von Stade), Lena Stolze (Schwester Jutta)Similar movies Fish Tank , Factory Girl , Captain America: The First Avenger , The Last Witch Hunter , Jupiter Ascending , The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things |
Vision from the life of hildegard von bingen official u s trailer
Gifted writer, composer, herbalist and more, a Benedictine nun (Barbara Sukowa) works to expand the status and responsibilities of women within her order.
Contents
- Vision from the life of hildegard von bingen official u s trailer
- Plot
- Cast
- Production
- Accolades
- References

Vision (original title: Aus dem Leben der Hildegard von Bingen) is a 2009 German film directed by Margarethe von Trotta.
Hildegard von Bingen was truly a woman ahead of her time. A visionary in every sense of the word, this famed 12th-century Benedictine nun was a Christian mystic, composer, philosopher, playwright, poet, naturalist, scientist, physician, herbalist and ecological activist.
Plot
In Vision, New German Cinema auteur Margarethe von Trotta (Marianne and Julianne, Rosa Luxemburg and Rosentrasse) tells the story of Hildegard of Bingen (Barbara Sukowa) the famed 12th century Benedictine nun, Christian mystic, composer, philosopher, playwright, physician, poet, naturalist, scientist and ecological activist. Hildegard was a multi-talented, fully grounded, highly intelligent woman who was forced to hide her light. The modern worlds first female rebel who re-transmitted her visions to the world for the greater glory of God and mankind. Regine Pernoud has called Hildegard “the inspired conscience of the 12th century,� the “Prophetissa Teutonica� and the “Jewel of Bingen.� Pope John Paul II has called her “a light to her people and for her time, she continues to shine even more brightly today.�
Cast
Production
Integrally involved with the 1970s Women’s Movement, filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta has always been drawn to women whose story has been marginalized over time. Von Trotta and others re-found Hildegard von Bingen in their search for historically forgotten (or misremembered) women. While writing the screenplay for her 1983 film Rosa Luxemburg, von Trotta’s interest in Hildegard re-emerged and she wondered whether Hildegard’s life would be good material for a movie. After writing a few scenes, von Trotta felt the film had a powerful message and potential resonance but didn’t feel she could find a producer ready to make the movie. Thus, von Trotta shelved the idea until it came to cinematic fruition recently.
The film reunites von Trotta with Barbara Sukowa (Zentropa, Berlin Alexanderplatz). Sukowa portrays Hildegard’s fierce determination to expand the responsibilities of women within the Benedictine order, as she fends off outrage from the Church over the visions she claims to receive from God. Shot in the original medieval cloisters in the German countryside, in Vision, von Trotta and Sukowa create a portrait of a woman who has emerged from the shadows of history as a forward-thinking pioneer of faith, change and enlightenment. The film depicts Hildegards diplomatic (sometime manipulative) skills to understand men and their vanities in order to found her own convent. It captures Hildegard’s love of happiness, mankind and their connectedness to faith.
Vision made its European debut in 2009 and is being distributed in the U.S. by Zeitgeist Films starting October 13, 2010.
Accolades
References
Vision – From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen WikipediaVision – From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen IMDb Vision – From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen themoviedb.org