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Reformation

Drama: Biographical

Drama: Historical

How a revolutionary priest named Martin Luther changed the face of Christendom.

Two-part drama about how, 500 years ago, a revolutionary priest named Martin Luther changed the face of Christendom and the path of European civilization forever.

Maximilian Bruckner

Jan Krauter

Johannes Klaussner

Joachim Krol

Armin Rohde

Rudiger Vogler

Fabian Hinrichs

Christoph Maria Herbst

Anna Schudt

Aylin Tezel

Frida Lovisa Hamann

Peter Lerchbaumer

Johanna Gastdorf

Uwe Janson

Stefan Dahnert

Marianne Wendt

Kai Hafemeister

Reformation: Part 2

Part 2 18/10/2017

BBC Four - Reformation, Part 2

The Catholic church has excommunicated Luther and condemned him as a heretic.

Two-part historical drama. 1521, and the Catholic church has excommunicated Luther and condemned him as a heretic, but the Reformation can no longer be stopped.

Five hundred years ago a revolutionary priest changed the face of Christendom and the path of European civilization forever. Risking his life and academic reputation, facing damnation and purgatory in 1517, he pinned his inflammatory 95 Theses to the church door in the Catholic church and the western world would never be the same again. His name was Martin Luther. This is a story of a group of people alive 500 years ago whose internal convictions led them to forge a new path - one that ultimately changed the world.

Part 2: 1521 - The Catholic church has excommunicated Luther and condemned him as a heretic, but the Reformation can no longer be stopped. Whilst in hiding, and widely believed to be dead, Luther translates the Bible into German for the first time so that the ordinary people can read it.

In German with English subtitles.

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