Product: Luther [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Germany ]
Rating: 5.0
A remarkable movie!
As Catholic, I was a little bit shy of buying this movie, but since my husband was very interested to see it, and after I've read all the good reviews about it, I decided to buy it. And I LOVE IT!!! The movie is not just an outstanding artistic achievement (all the key characters are extraordinary played!) but also it has a great historic value. Luther was a necessity firstly for the German people (I can see now the huge impact that his writtings and, most importantly, the TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE into German, had on the german people and culture and on the development of the german language itself!) and secondly for the Catholic church itself (thanks to him, even if probably never admitted, the Catholic church started its own reform which, even if it was a very slow process, it did happen). And, inspired by what one of the cardinals in the movie said ('...Leo was a spiritual dwarf, when we needed a giant as Luther!"), I wonder how the Catholic church could have looked today if Luther reforms were accepted for debate?