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Jun 6, 1996 · The Seventh Room: Directed by Márta Mészáros. With Maia Morgenstern, Elide Melli, Jan Nowicki, Anna Polony. 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.
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- Biography, Drama, War
- Márta Mészáros
- 1996-06-06
- Beneath The Surface
- An Interior Drama
- The Seventh Chamber and The Interior Castle
- Charting The Seven Chambers
- Who Is Edith Stein?
Although an excellent movie about Edith Stein could be made from the above outline, it is not the outline followed by The Seventh Chamber. The Seventh Chamberstarts more or less at the penultimate sentence in the last paragraph, with Edith’s baptism. A surprising amount of the earlier material is worked in — not through flashbacks, as one might exp...
Although the film does not demand it, we may take a cue from the imagery of the opening credits, even before the baptism: a great black steam engine chuffing toward Auschwitz, scored to a wailing Jewish chant. Of course the train (and with it the chant) comes back in the end. Technically, then, the main part of the film, from after the opening cred...
We must step back and consider the big picture: the schema of the “seven chambers.” Although it is not until the climax that the “seventh chamber” itself comes into view, the explanation of the seven chambers comes somewhere in the middle, in a key sequence on the eve of Edith’s profession, as Edith offers company, instruction and advice to the you...
Edith’s journey begins, of course, with her baptism. In embracing Christ, Edith faces rejection by her family, especially her mother — as we see immediately afterward when Edith returns home via train to Breslau to tell her mother what she has done, and faces her mother’s accusations that she has betrayed her people. Later, during a lecture, Edith ...
What picture emerges from The Seventh Chamberof its protagonist? What does the film have to tell us about Edith Stein? First, the film is emphatic that Edith Stein embraces Catholicism without in any way rejecting Judaism. She states this explicitly to her mother after her conversion, and shows it in a number of ways throughout the film (e.g., layi...
Actress Maia Morgenstern (The Passion of the Christ ) stars in a powerful performance as Stein. ""A challenging, often fascinating film, The Seventh Chamber, is a gratifying tribute to a great saint. It shows that for Edith Stein it is only by knowing God that we know ourselves; only through Jesus that we know God; and only through the cross ...
Shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, she was sent to a conventn in the Netherlands. When the persecution of the nazi's increased, Edith was deported to Auschwitz and murdered in the gas chamber there in 1942. Cast. Maia Morgenstern - Edith Stein; Jan Nowicki - Franz Heller; Anna Polony - Sister Giuseppa; Elide Melli - Rosa
Oct 1, 2010 · Shot in a kind of a rich expressionist realism, it s backed by poignant chant music that makes every frame haunting and alive. Actress Maia Morgenstern (The Passion of the Christ) stars in a powerful performance as Stein. Includes a 16 page Collector's Booklet by Steven Greydanus and Carl Olson.
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- Ignatius Press
- $19.95
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Actress Maia Morgenstern (The Passion of the Christ ) stars in a powerful performance as Stein. A challenging, often fascinating film, The Seventh Chamber, is a gratifying tribute to a great saint. It shows that for Edith Stein it is only by knowing God that we know ourselves; only through Jesus that we know God; and only through the cross that ...
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Actor. Jan Nowicki. Franz Heller. Giovanni Capalbo. Paul. Ileana Carusio. Erna. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. Advertise With Us. Sister Edith Stein (Maia Morgenstern) faces Nazi persecution...
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