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The film is a biopic concerning about the Agustinian monk(1483-1546) Martin Luther(Joseph Fiennes).His life and the famous deeds from how was orchestrated the Protestant Reform are the following: He becomes a good priest and is going to Rome.There he buys indulgences for his grandfather,but he sees the reality, a corrupt Rome with the selling the indulgences to finance the basilica of San Pedro by Leo X and previously begun by Clemente VII and Julio II .He returns to Germany where his preceptor(Bruno Ganz) sends him to Wittemberg to doctorate himself in theology studies.There preaches John Tetzel(Alfred Molina) a dreadful inquisitor.But his point of view about the Catholic church have changed and he rebels himself and nails the 95 Thesis on the door of the castle.He rejected the Papal authority,the Saints cult, the celibacy and to say mass.Luther along with Melanchton(Rudolph) starts the Protestant Reform.The printing press has been recently invented by Guttemberg and the Luther's ideas are quickly printed and are spread everywhere as the written books called ¨The captivity of Babilony,The freedom of Christian and the Confession of Ausburg(1530)¨.Pope Leo X(Uwe Ochsenknecht) threats to Luther of ex-communion but he refuses to recant.He finally gets the ex-communion by papal Bulla ¨Exsurge Domine¨ but he fires it in the public square of Wittemberg.He is appointed in Worms(1521) with the presence of the emperor Charles V(Liebrech)but he doesn't regret .Prince Frederick of Xaxony(Peter Ustinov) keeps him in his castle of Wartburgo.There Martin translates the Bible into German language for the people understands the New Testament.The common people follows the Martin's lectures and accuses to the Church of their penury,burning churches and palaces.Meanwhile he knows a a ex-nun named Katherina Von Bora(Claire Cox) and marries her. The emperor summons all the German princes for confronting the Luthero's doctrine.The princes encourage facing to emperor,they stand up against Charles V. The Luther's thesis have won in spite of the princes were defeated in Mulberg(1547) and they signed the treatise of Ausburg. In the film appear famous historic personages who are well performed by a sensational plethora of British and German actors as Ralph Fiennes(Shakespeare in love),Bruno Ganz(Hitler in The Downfall),Alfred Molina(Diego Rivera in Frida) and in his last film,Peter Ustinov(recently deceased ,he's the immortal Nero in Quo Vadis)The motion picture gets a colorful cinematography by Robert Frasse,an atmospheric music by Richad Harvey and is rightly directed by Eric Till.Devotees of the history will love this movie which is a fine tribute to Martin Luther.
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