I bought the DVD from Amazon Germany and it didn't have any English subs, my German is pretty poor, but with the German subs and the Swiss-German audio track I was able to follow most of the film, the one thing I didn't get was what Lisi's connection with America was, had she told everyone she was going there?
shareher daughter :)
she once fell in love with an american soldier...
to the people of the village she pretended she had been to america for some time with her lover and left america when he died. unfortunately she told the swiss priest about her lie some time later and he was unprofessional enough to blubb it out. that *beep* forgot about his duty as a priest to keep everything secret what people confess as their "sins".
*beep* i wanted to say. the priest was an *beep*
sharewho the *beep* is censoring here?
shareIn one way you were wrong - the priest is not a catholic but an protestantic (not sure, if it's the right word - the part of the church that's based on Luther) priest, so there is no possibility of confessing and forgiving the sins as in the catholic church, and this known the priest could speak about anything he wants to. I guess.
shareI'm sorry, but in Switzerland there are only a few protestants. Most of the people from the German-speaking part who belong to a reformed church are evangelic-reformed (they don't refer to themselves as 'protestants'). They don't go back to Martin Luther but to Huldrich Zwingli, one of Luther's contemporary Swiss reformers.
But as in every church, ministers / pastors / vicars (all the churches going back to the reformation don't have priests!) must never tell anything that people have confided to them. (There is only one exception to this general rule: if you may be able to save one's life, you may consider to break the rule.)