Film series: Klöster im Kino [Monasteries in Cinema]
The successful film series in cooperation with the student cinema Kino im Kasten will be continued in the summer term 2023. The following movies will be shown:
Franziskus von Assisi [Francis of Assisi]
Mo, 08.05. | 20:00 Uhr
USA 1961 - 106 min - Michael Curtiz
Rise or retreat? The rich bourgeois son Francis chooses poverty, his friend Paolo worldly fame. Star director Michael Curtiz ("Casablanca") tells the life of the saint as a double biography. – Classic Holloywood adaptation of an astonishing story of transformation.
Die Nonne [La Religieuse]
Mo, 22.05. | 20:00 Uhr
DEU/FRA/BEL 2013 - 112 min - Guillaume Nicloux
Where to send a daughter from a good family when the money runs out? To a convent, her parents decide. Will Suzanne (Pauline Étienne) succeed in escaping their plans? – This remake of the Diderot novel (1792) transposes the dark story of a young woman's struggle for her rights into surprisingly bright convent rooms.
Benedetta
Mo, 5.06. | 20:00 Uhr
FRA 2021 - 131 min - Paul Verhoeven
How true are miracles? And who believes in them? The young nun Benedetta is a saint - or is she? Paul Verhoeven looks into a women's convent in the time of the plague: the day is structured according to plan, but the uncanny always breaks through – a film with powerful images about power and truth.
Der Name der Rose [The Name of the Rose]
Mo, 19.06. | 20:00 Uhr
BRD/FRAU/IT 1986 - 126 min - Jean-Jacques Annaud
Dark secrets, treacherous murders and a lost book. William of Baskerville (Sean Connery), a medieval Sherlock Holmes, takes up the investigation of a sinister monastery with his "Dr. Watson" (a.k.a. Adlatus Adson).... – Influential film adaptation of Umberto Eco's bestselling novel, which once triggered a medieval trend that continues to this day.
Sister Act
Fr, 30.06. | 20:00 Uhr
USA 1992 - 100 min - Emile Ardolino
Can it work when a bar singer is hidden away in a convent of all places - and as the only woman of colour among all the white nuns? – The surprise success of 1992 made gospel singing internationally popular and is a great homage to the power of music.
Broken Silence
Mo, 3.07. | 20:00 Uhr
Schweiz 1995 – 106 min - Wolfgang Panzer
A Swiss silent monk is sent out into the world to save the survival of his monastery. In Indonesia. Can he reconcile the secular and the divine mission? – Modern road movie in which the hero has to make his own decisions more and more often.