Directed by Margarethe von Trotta • Drama • 2009 • Germany • German with English subtitles
Starring Barbara Sukowa, Heino Ferch, Hannah Herzsprung

Hildegard von Bingen, a visionary 12th-century Benedictine nun, mystic, composer, and herbalist, was truly ahead of her time. In "Vision," Margarethe von Trotta captures Hildegard’s extraordinary drive to expand women's roles in the Church while defending her divine revelations. Lushly shot in medieval cloisters, the film is a vivid portrait of an iconoclastic leader attuned to faith and change.