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Plot. In the early 1970s as black power, women's liberation and the sexual revolution are overtaking America, Nora Ruckstuhl is a housewife living in a small Swiss farming village where she lives with her husband, Hans, their two sons, and her father-in-law.
The Divine Order: Directed by Petra Biondina Volpe. With Marie Leuenberger, Maximilian Simonischek, Rachel Braunschweig, Sibylle Brunner. In 1971, a young housewife organizes the women of her town to petition for the right to vote.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Petra Biondina Volpe
- 2017-10-27
- Votes For Women
- Upsetting The Order
- Conclusion: The Divine Order
Nora (Marie Leuenberger) is a housewife and mother in a small village in the Swiss countryside. Every day, she drops her two sons off at school, cleans the house, cares for her grouchy live-in father-in-law, and assists her put-upon sister-in-law, Theresa (Rachel Braunschweig) with chores on the family farm. But Nora wants something more – specific...
The Divine Order focuses on a fictional small-town activist instead of a famous political leader, but because of that, the film’s story is all the more remarkable and relatable. As played by the infinitely likable Leuenberger, Nora could be a stand-in for anyone who has ever realized that they deserve better and tried to do something about it, even...
The Divine Orderis a fierce, fiery film that should be seen by anyone who feels helpless in the ongoing struggle for equality, anyone who feels that their voice is too small to be heard or their cause too misunderstood to gain traction. It will ignite the desire for social change in even the most contented and privileged of people and remind you th...
- Lee Jutton
The Divine Order. A young housewife challenges the status quo by fighting for women's suffrage in 1971 Switzerland. The likable cast carries The Divine Order, a crowd-pleasing film that...
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- Marie Leuenberger
- Petra Biondina Volpe
- History, Drama
THE DIVINE ORDER. Switzerland, 1971: Nora is a young housewife and mother who lives with her husband and their two sons in a peaceful little village. Here, in the Swiss countryside, little or nothing is felt of the huge social upheavals that the movement of May 1968 has caused.
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Oct 26, 2017 · “The Divine Order” examines that fight for women’s suffrage in a microcosm. Directed by Petra Volpe, the film is set in a conservative Swiss town that has gone largely insulated from the ...
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Switzerland, 1971: Nora is a young housewife and mother who lives with her husband, their two sons and her father-in-law in a little village. Here, in the Swiss countryside, little or nothing is felt of the huge social upheavals that the movement of May 1968 has caused.
