TY - ADVS AU - Margarethe von Trotta AU - Margarethe von Trotta AU - Barbara Sukowa AU - Heino Ferch AU - Hannah Herzsprung TI - Vision - Aus dem Leben der Hildegard von Bingen: Vision AV - PN1997 .V575 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - Germany, France PB - ARD Degeto Film, Celluloid Dreams, Clasart Film + TV Produktions GmbH, Concorde Filmed Entertainment N1 - From case cover: - Telluride Film Festival Tribute and Q&A with directorMargarethe von Trotta by actress Barbara Sukowa and professor Annette Insdorf - Writer Gary Giddins' Telluride interview with von Trotta - A conversation at the Goethe-Institut New York, with von Trotta and writer Robert Boyers N2 - From case cover: Hildegard von Bingen was truly a woman ahead of her time. A visionary in every sense of the work, this famed 12th-century Benedicine nun was a Christian mystic, composer, philosopher, playwright, poet, naturalist, scientist, physician, herbalist, and ecological activist. In "Vision" New German Cinema auteur Margarethe von Trotta ("Marianne and Juliane", "Rosenstrasse") reunites with recurrent star Barbara Sukowa ("Zentropa", "Berlin Alexanderplatz") to bring the story of this extraordinary woman to life. In a staggering performance, Sukowa portrays Hildegard's fierce determination to expand the responsibilities of women within the order, even as she fends off outrage from some in the Church over the visions she claims to recieve from God. Lushly shot in original medieval cloisters of the fairytale-like German countryside, "Vision" in a profoundly inspirational portrait of a woman who has emerged from the shadows of history as a forward-thinking and iconoclastic pioneer of faith, change and enlightenment ER -