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Ok what about Hildegard von Bingen?

posted 17 years ago by laramor55
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This story of Pope Joan reminds me of Hildegar von Bingen(1098-1179) . I wish there is a movie about her. Bingen wrote beutiful things, concerning her feeling and ideas on a world were women were found inferior to men and desendants of Eve's sin. In those time when women were no very much respected, yet she gat visist from those high men of the church like kings, bishops and the pope himselfs for her advises.

"But although I heard and saw these things, because of doubt and low opinion of myself and because of diverse sayings of men, I refused for a long time a call to write, not out of stubbornness but out of humility, until weighed down by a scourge of god, I fell onto a bed of sickness. " Hildegard von Bingen

[–] meininki 17 years ago

Von Trotta does Hildegard von Bingen, Monique van de Ven adapts Wolkers' Zomerhitte

Two female veterans of European cinema are currently preparing new projects: German director Margarethe von Trotta is currently working on the script for a film about the medieval female mystic Hildegard of Bingen and Dutch actress Monique van de Ven is in pre-production on her feature film debut as a director called Zommerhitte.

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After her WWII-set drama Rosenstrasse and the contemporary psychological puzzle Ich bin die Andere (I Am the Other Woman), German director Margarethe von Trotta will turn to the historical biopic for her next film. The Berlin-born director is currently working on a script that recounts the life of Hildegard of Bingen (Hildegard von Bingen in German), a female German mystic and composer who lived in the 12th century. The film promises to be an interesting companion piece to two films: the recently released biopic of the Spanish mystic and Saint Teresa of Avila called Teresa, el cuerpo de Cristo (Teresa, the Body of Christ) from director Ray Loriga, and the upcoming Pope Joan "biopic" from Volker Schlöndorff that stars Franka Potente as the female pope and which is set in 9th century Germany and Italy.

Von Trotta’s film is scheduled to start filming in late summer in Hesse and Bavaria and could hit screens before the end of the year according to distributor Concorde Filmverleih. No word yet on who might star as Hildegard von Bingen, though the main actress of her last two films, Katja Riemann, certainly seems a possibility.

http://european-films.net/content/view/667/52/

[–] laramor55 17 years ago

Oh wow thank thank you so much, I'm really happy to read this. All my dreams are really coming true I think with all this great history getting into the big screen.

[–] info-3508 15 years ago

http://pro.imdb.com/title/tt1031322/