Posted on 07/06/2015 1:18:13 PM PDT by Alex Murphy
The life of Ulrich Zwingli will be brought to the big screens, confirmed C-Films, a company which produced films like “Midnight train to Lisbon.”
Many have discovered the Protestant Reformation through films about Martin Luther (especially “Luther”, lead by Joseph Fiennes), but not many other Christians leaders of his age have been portrayed in cinemas.
Ulrich Zwingli (1484-1531) was the most well known Reformer of the Swiss city of Zürich, a focus of the Reformation in the country alongside Calvin’s Geneva.
The script is being written by journalist Simone Schmid, who is working on historical material of the Reformed Church in Switzerland. The movie’s budget will be 6 million Swiss Francs (about 5 million Euros) and the release is expected for 2018.
C-Films stated that it will be an “independent” film, but it will still aim to reach the general public.
The Reformed Church had shown their desire to “bring Zwingli’s story to the big screen”, but they had explained: “We do not have the millions to pay for it.”
The movie could have success, they said, because the Reformer’s life combines “religion and power, desire and love, violence and strong convictions.”
Hmm. Interesting. Zwingli died in battle.
Supposedly he finally was done in by a sword thrust from the appropriately named Captain Fuckinger of Unterwalden. No, seriously, that was his name.
Locals then got a chance to publicly denounce him for his crimes in a posthumous trial of sorts. His body was drawn and quartered (since he was a betrayer of the confederation) and his body burned. And then the entrails of some pigs were thrown in with his ashes.
Reformation interest.
A different source no doubt.
Zwingli was in the battle as a chaplain, not a soldier.
It could be a good movie. I’m all for a rip-roaring costume drama, as long as the fight scenes are reasonably accurate.
No machine guns. “Predator vs. Reformer”
“Swiss vs. Swiss,” too. That’s not situation you run into in every old historical potboiler.
Yes, he was a chaplain, but he also fought (it's a big sword) as chaplains did in those days.
The usual statue of Zwingli you see in Switzerland has him holding a sword in one hand and a bible in the other....
^See the crack? ^
"When Zwingli was killed on October 11, 1531, he wore what every Swiss soldier wore, a helmet and a sword. And in spite of Luther’s vile suggestion that Zwingli was a combatant at Kappel-am-Albis, he was in fact not. He never drew that sword. But you can still see the gash in his helmet where he was first stricken and stunned, knocked to the ground, and then lanced through, perishing with Scripture on his lips… ‘do not fear those who can kill the body…’"
-Dr. Jim West, Church historian, citing contemporary sources, from his website: https://zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com/about-2/
^Always have wanted a cap like that^
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