Luther (2003)
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 3 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 30, 2004
- Originally Released: 2003
- Label: Mgm (Video & Dvd)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Joseph Fiennes | |
Performer: | Alfred Molina, Bruno Ganz, Jonathan Firth, Claire Cox, Benjamin Sadler, Jochen Horst & Torbin Liebrecht | |
Directed by | Eric Till | |
Screenwriting by | Camille Thomasson & Bart Gavigan | |
Composition by | Richard Harvey | |
Produced by | Brigitte Rochow | |
Director of Photography: | Robert Fraisse |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.5/4 --
About as swashbuckling as a history lesson gets.
Globe and Mail
...Vigorously thoughtful...
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 3/5 --
Luther is rarely presented as anything other than a preacher. He preaches even in casual conversation.
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Toronto Star
Luther is the textbook radical: he acts out what his contemporaries merely profess.
Low IQ Canadian
Rating: 2.5/5 --
An effective history lesson, but not nearly riveting enough to be as entertaining as it is earnest.
Jam! Movies
Rating: B- --
Heady theological badminton, as vigorously thoughtful as it is piously historical.
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Entertainment Weekly
Rating: C --
It glosses over the brilliant monk's dark side and ignores his prejudices completely.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Product Description:
Spiritual conviction and radical politics define LUTHER, an historical biography which traces the life and career of Martin Luther, an inspired monk whose writings initiated the Protestant movement in 16th-century Germany. The film follows Luther's induction as a monk to his professorship in Wittenberg, where he eventually authors the 95 Theses. Reacting against Roman-Catholic strategies of bartering salvation for coinage, as well as the institution's hierarchies of religious knowledge and power, Luther throws the proverbial wrench in the system with his seditious writings. His disgust with the Church is only balanced by his love of the scriptures, and he calls on both to defend himself in numerous battles with the Church, recreated with modern-day courtroom drama. The film employs tropes of the father and son, including Luther's relationships with his biological father, his spiritual mentor at the monastery, and God, all of which provide richer textures to the narrative. Populated with dusty, energetic peasants desperate for God and the statesmen who rule them--incidentally decked out in rich red robes or purple gowns--LUTHER rewards the aesthetic impulse with panoramic landscapes, vastly structured church interiors, myriad medieval paintings, and again, the costumes. Spirited in more ways than one, LUTHER provides a dramatic overview to the ultimate Protestant hero, whose radical politics and religious beliefs ushered in an entirely new era of faith and practice.
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Product Info
- UPC: 027616906540
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