Vision – Aus dem Leben der Hildegard von Bingen (2009) Margarethe von Trotta, Barbara Sukowa, Heino Ferch, Hannah Herzsprung

April 7, 2020

The life story of the multi-talented German nun Hildegard von Bingen. The film portrays an original woman – best known as a composer and religious visionary – whose grand claims often run counter to the patriarchal world around her. The monks and nuns at the convent become a kind of family, offering both confidants and enemies. For example Jutta, struggling with her jealousy of Hildegard’s success, and the young Richardis who worships Hildegard both as an intellectual role model and a mother figure.