Word: luthers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...successful, a film must avoid plot and dialogue with an intellectual content higher than that found in the platitudes of Pa Kettle. At best, drama must be light-weight, with much false emotion and conflict of typed personalities. But the lines of patient people waiting to see Martin Luther prove that picture executives have at least as great a share of fallibility as Luther claimed for the Rope...
...theology was so irritating because it was highly personal and opposed to the formal systems of any churches. Although he attacked the Papacy, he also ripped into cherished new Protestant doctrines such as Calvin's predestination and Luther's "justification by faith alone." By the time Servetus was 22, the "Wanted" posters were up for him in both camps. Calvin denounced his writings as "a rhapsody composed of the impious ravings of all the ages." Added Luther's disciple, Melanchthon: "Astute and impious . . . blowing smoke perfidiously before his hearers." For the Catholics, Jerome Aleander, Luther...
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...film Martin Luther, the Lutherans chose a moviemaker who is capable of resisting Hollywood's inclination to see every religious picture as de Millennium. Documentary-minded Louis de Rochemont (Lost Boundaries) likes authentic outdoor sets and on-the-spot extras, and Producer Lothar Wolff sent him to western Germany to get plenty of both. To play Luther, Wolff chose British Actor Niall MacGinnis, surrounded him with a varied cast, and began to shoot scenes in 12th century Maulbronn Cloister, Eberbach Cloister and the castle at Eltville (instead of Luther's Wittenberg, which is in Russian hands). Even more...
...film takes Martin Luther from his doubt-filled student days through the whole dramatic flowering of Protestantism. There are notable soft-pedalings; the Peasants' Revolt (1524-26) seems to be telescoped with the iconoclastic excesses of one of Luther's too enthusiastic followers, and the rallying of the German princes to Luther's side is tricked out in more Christian idealism than most historians give the princes credit for. But by & large, the action and the dialogue, drawn mostly from Luther's own written words, are both accurate and edifying...