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| Martin Luther, Heretic | |
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| Directed by | Norman Stone |
| Written by | William Nicholson |
| Produced by | David M. Thompson |
| Starring | Jonathan Pryce Maurice Denham Hugh Dickson John Nettleton Clive Swift Hugh Laurie |
| Cinematography | Keith Hopper |
| Edited by | Pauline Dykes |
| Music by | Roger Limb |
| Distributed by | British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Family Films Concordia Films |
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Running time | 70 minutes |
| Countries | United Kingdom United States |
| Language | English |
Martin Luther, Heretic is a 1983 film made to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the birth ofMartin Luther. It was released on 8 November 1983 in the United Kingdom, two days before the 500th jubilee on 10 November. It starredJonathan Pryce as Martin Luther.Maurice Denham reprised his role ofJohann von Staupitz that he played in the 1973American Film Theater filmLuther. The time frame of the film is 1506-1522: the beginning of Luther's monastic vocation to his return from exile at theWartburg in 1522. A medievaldramatic troupe's performances ofmystery plays provide the unifying motif for a parallel telling of the story of the film. When Luther's carriage en route from theWartburg toWittenberg it is shown passing an actor wearing adevil's mask. When this scene is revisited at the end of the film, the actor slips this mask off his face.
Some[who?] could interpret the portrayal of Martin Luther returning toWittenberg, which occurred in early 1522, as his approving of the radical changes instigated byAndreas Karlstadt the year before. However, historically, Luther opposed some of the changes as well as the rashness of the changes he did approve of. The movie makes the out-break of the radical changes the instigation of his return thus implying, probably rightly, the need he felt to moderate them. He preached his"Invocavit Sermons" against this radical reform in Wittenberg, and he had some of the changes rolled back.[citation needed]
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