Completed - ITALIAN - Biography, Historical, Drama - 110 minutes
The boigraphy of Saint Edith Stein,. A Jew by birth who converted to Catholicism, she was killed in a Nazi concentration camp.She was canonized (declared a saint) in 1998.
Year of production : 1995 Director(s) : Márta MÉSZÁROS Writer(s) : Roberta MAZZONI , Márta MÉSZÁROS Cast : Maia MORGENSTERN, Adriana ASTI, Elide MELLI, Jan NOWICKI Producer(s) : Francesco PAMPHILI (Morgan Film )
This movie is based on the life of Saint Edith Stein. She was a German nun of Jewish descent who had converted to Catholicism. Much of her early life was spent as an outspoken academic. There, according to the movie, she feuded with Joseph Heller, a fellow professor with right wing beliefs. In 1933, after Jews were no longer allowed to teach, she became a nun in the Spartan-like Carmelite order. But when World War II heated up, Heller, who had become an important Nazi official, took his revenge. He had her deported to Auschwitz.
Country(ies) : ITALY, FRANCE, POLAND, HUNGARY