1
00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:02,550
Help me! Don't let me die
like a dog on this road!

2
00:02:02,620 --> 00:02:04,947
Don't let me die!

3
00:02:05,017 --> 00:02:07,485
I'll become a monk!
I'll become a monk!

4
00:02:07,554 --> 00:02:10,178
I'll give myself to God!
I'll give myself to God!

5
00:02:10,253 --> 00:02:12,911
I'll give myself to You!
I'll give myself to You!

6
00:02:12,985 --> 00:02:14,779
Just spare me! Spare me!

7
00:02:14,850 --> 00:02:16,511
Just help me!

8
00:03:08,778 --> 00:03:10,765
Your father's here.

9
00:03:10,844 --> 00:03:12,673
He's brought
the whole family.

10
00:05:08,297 --> 00:05:09,661
He's leaving.

11
00:05:11,597 --> 00:05:14,062
Father, please stay for supper!
Father!

12
00:05:14,129 --> 00:05:16,218
Your first Mass,
and you crap yourself!

13
00:05:16,295 --> 00:05:17,555
I hoped we could talk.

14
00:05:17,627 --> 00:05:19,457
We scraped to send you
to the law,

15
00:05:19,529 --> 00:05:21,823
to elevate you
to a noble profession.

16
00:05:21,894 --> 00:05:24,326
I sweat in the mines for 20 years

17
00:05:24,394 --> 00:05:26,621
to give you the chance
I never had!

18
00:05:26,694 --> 00:05:28,751
Is that how you
interpret the commandment

19
00:05:28,827 --> 00:05:30,692
to honor your father and mother?

20
00:05:30,762 --> 00:05:32,725
God brought me here.
God?

21
00:05:32,793 --> 00:05:35,225
A shaft of lightning
burns your arse,

22
00:05:35,294 --> 00:05:36,692
and you call that God?

23
00:05:36,761 --> 00:05:38,521
The devil, more like!

24
00:05:39,859 --> 00:05:40,847
Father!

25
00:05:41,493 --> 00:05:43,151
Shut up! Shut up!
Leave me alone!

26
00:05:43,225 --> 00:05:45,281
Satan, stifle your lying tongue!

27
00:05:45,358 --> 00:05:47,324
I never claimed to be good!
Never!

28
00:05:47,392 --> 00:05:49,653
They know my faults here...
my pride, my cursed lust!

29
00:05:49,724 --> 00:05:51,714
I confess them all!
I confess them all!

30
00:05:51,791 --> 00:05:53,916
Just leave me!
Just leave me!

31
00:05:54,024 --> 00:05:56,114
Just leave me!
Please leave me!

32
00:05:56,191 --> 00:05:58,951
You're too hard on yourself,
Brother Martin.

33
00:05:59,023 --> 00:06:02,251
Arguing with the devil
never does any of us any good.

34
00:06:02,323 --> 00:06:04,846
He has had 5,000 years
of practice.

35
00:06:04,923 --> 00:06:07,184
He knows all the weak spots.

36
00:06:07,254 --> 00:06:09,585
I'm sorry about today.

37
00:06:09,656 --> 00:06:12,119
I'm not here to scold you, Martin.

38
00:06:12,187 --> 00:06:15,246
I'm too full of sin
to be a priest.

39
00:06:24,553 --> 00:06:26,144
You know, in two years

40
00:06:26,220 --> 00:06:29,084
I've never heard you confess
anything remotely interesting.

41
00:06:31,387 --> 00:06:33,683
I live in terror of judgment.

42
00:06:33,753 --> 00:06:36,583
And you think
self-hatred will save you?

43
00:06:36,652 --> 00:06:40,448
Have you ever dared to think
that God is not just?

44
00:06:40,516 --> 00:06:43,675
He has us born tainted by sin,

45
00:06:43,750 --> 00:06:47,547
then He's angry with us
all our lives for our faults,

46
00:06:47,617 --> 00:06:50,208
this righteous Judge...

47
00:06:51,383 --> 00:06:52,712
who damns us...

48
00:06:53,716 --> 00:06:56,148
threatening us
with the fires of hell!

49
00:06:59,649 --> 00:07:02,170
I know! I know
I'm evil to think it!

50
00:07:02,247 --> 00:07:04,407
You're not evil.

51
00:07:04,482 --> 00:07:06,378
You're just not honest.

52
00:07:07,482 --> 00:07:09,242
God isn't angry with you.

53
00:07:09,316 --> 00:07:11,746
You are angry with God.

54
00:07:11,815 --> 00:07:14,338
I wish there were no God.

55
00:07:14,414 --> 00:07:16,607
Martin, what is it you seek?

56
00:07:16,681 --> 00:07:18,670
A merciful God!

57
00:07:20,146 --> 00:07:22,169
A God whom I can love.

58
00:07:22,246 --> 00:07:24,905
A God who loves me.

59
00:07:28,915 --> 00:07:30,468
Then look to Christ.

60
00:07:30,546 --> 00:07:32,909
Bind yourself to Christ

61
00:07:32,978 --> 00:07:34,843
and you will know God's love.

62
00:07:36,245 --> 00:07:40,609
Say to Him,
"I'm yours. Save me."

63
00:07:42,311 --> 00:07:47,006
"I am yours. Save me."

64
00:07:49,811 --> 00:07:53,207
I am yours. Save me.

65
00:07:54,210 --> 00:07:56,766
I am yours. Save me.

66
00:07:59,075 --> 00:08:01,540
The brothers
are not happy with your decision.

67
00:08:01,608 --> 00:08:03,335
They think there are
others in our cloister

68
00:08:03,408 --> 00:08:05,896
better suited to deliver
your letters to Rome.

69
00:08:05,974 --> 00:08:09,737
Martin has two degrees
and an aptitude for law.

70
00:08:09,808 --> 00:08:11,966
It will be
a legal brief he carries.

71
00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:15,733
Besides, it will do him good
to be out in the world.

72
00:08:56,502 --> 00:08:58,162
We need your teaching, brother!

73
00:08:59,336 --> 00:09:00,425
Try some wine.

74
00:09:02,501 --> 00:09:05,663
Let go of me!
Let me go!

75
00:09:05,737 --> 00:09:07,632
You listen, you little thief!

76
00:09:07,700 --> 00:09:10,098
Keep going.
It's none of your business.

77
00:09:10,168 --> 00:09:12,032
Keep going, for your good.

78
00:09:25,332 --> 00:09:27,854
Hey, you look lonely, brother.

79
00:09:27,931 --> 00:09:31,589
Alms for a blind man!

80
00:09:34,998 --> 00:09:36,485
Come on, come inside.
No.

81
00:09:36,563 --> 00:09:38,553
Statues of all
your favorite saints.

82
00:09:38,631 --> 00:09:40,529
Saint Cecilia for sore throats,

83
00:09:40,596 --> 00:09:44,084
Saint Paul for bad backs
and swollen feet, brother.

84
00:09:44,163 --> 00:09:46,493
Saint Joe for chapped hands,
the Virgin...

85
00:09:46,563 --> 00:09:48,221
Pope Julius is coming!

86
00:09:49,294 --> 00:09:50,284
Get down!

87
00:09:51,296 --> 00:09:54,455
Down!
The Pope is here!

88
00:09:54,529 --> 00:09:56,960
It's the Holy Father!
Clear the streets!

89
00:09:57,028 --> 00:10:00,892
Make way for the Pope!
Make way for the Pope!

90
00:10:07,992 --> 00:10:11,356
This way
for Saint John the Baptist's head!

91
00:10:15,491 --> 00:10:16,482
Move along.

92
00:10:17,491 --> 00:10:19,980
Move along, there.
Move along from the Baptist's head.

93
00:10:40,322 --> 00:10:41,617
Give generously!

94
00:10:47,088 --> 00:10:48,554
Good enough, brother.

95
00:10:48,622 --> 00:10:50,780
Fast or slow,
you'll get your 500 years.

96
00:10:51,854 --> 00:10:53,151
Enough!

97
00:11:03,753 --> 00:11:05,649
Name of the deceased
and relation?

98
00:11:05,719 --> 00:11:07,344
Hendrick Luther.

99
00:11:07,419 --> 00:11:08,577
Grandfather.

100
00:11:09,585 --> 00:11:11,051
An Our Father
on every step.

101
00:11:11,119 --> 00:11:12,415
When you reach the top of the stairs,

102
00:11:12,486 --> 00:11:15,451
Hendrick will be released from Purgatory
and into the gates of Heaven.

103
00:11:17,419 --> 00:11:18,906
Name of the deceased
and relation?

104
00:11:18,984 --> 00:11:21,007
Wolfram Eschen, uncle.

105
00:11:21,083 --> 00:11:22,845
An Our Father on every step.

106
00:11:22,916 --> 00:11:24,008
When you reach the top of the stairs,

107
00:11:24,084 --> 00:11:26,673
Wolfram will be released from Purgatory
and into the gates of Heaven.

108
00:13:09,072 --> 00:13:11,832
You are back from Rome
almost two weeks.

109
00:13:14,369 --> 00:13:17,927
Two weeks, and scarcely alert,
even in the confessional.

110
00:13:19,936 --> 00:13:23,094
As your father in Christ,
I order you to speak.

111
00:13:30,436 --> 00:13:31,923
Rome is a circus...

112
00:13:32,934 --> 00:13:35,025
a running sewer.

113
00:13:35,100 --> 00:13:37,327
You can buy anything...
sex, salvation.

114
00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:40,025
They have brothels
just for clerics.

115
00:13:40,099 --> 00:13:42,758
As they probably do
in Leipzig.

116
00:13:44,767 --> 00:13:47,561
One church had the coins
for which Judas sold our Lord.

117
00:13:49,098 --> 00:13:52,587
100 years off Purgatory
for kissing each one.

118
00:13:52,665 --> 00:13:55,652
And you think Rome unique
in such relics?

119
00:13:55,731 --> 00:13:58,287
There are even rumors
about the Holy Father himself,

120
00:13:58,363 --> 00:14:00,296
that he has a lust for power!

121
00:14:01,297 --> 00:14:02,626
Let's go outside.

122
00:14:02,697 --> 00:14:04,130
What's wrong with here?

123
00:14:04,198 --> 00:14:06,287
Well, this floor... the color.

124
00:14:06,363 --> 00:14:09,795
I like color, but you give
your brothers a hard choice...

125
00:14:09,864 --> 00:14:12,193
they either learn
to scrub like you,

126
00:14:12,263 --> 00:14:16,523
or find a way to make your patch
a little less sparkling.

127
00:14:20,627 --> 00:14:22,753
Gently,

128
00:14:22,828 --> 00:14:25,919
like milking a cow.

129
00:14:25,995 --> 00:14:29,222
The ancients
reverenced their bees.

130
00:14:29,293 --> 00:14:32,123
They valued them
more than slaves.

131
00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:38,224
Have you ever read
the New Testament, Martin?

132
00:14:38,293 --> 00:14:39,918
No, Father.

133
00:14:39,992 --> 00:14:42,982
Not many have,
but in Wittenberg you will.

134
00:14:46,060 --> 00:14:47,422
Wittenberg?

135
00:14:47,493 --> 00:14:49,153
A doctorate in theology.

136
00:14:51,625 --> 00:14:53,384
You're sending me away
to study?

137
00:14:53,457 --> 00:14:55,117
I'm sending you to the source...

138
00:14:55,191 --> 00:14:56,746
the Scriptures.

139
00:14:56,823 --> 00:14:58,448
Christ Himself.

140
00:14:58,523 --> 00:15:02,080
Here I'm losing my faith,

141
00:15:02,157 --> 00:15:05,645
feeling like a fool even to pray,
and you're sending me away?

142
00:15:05,723 --> 00:15:08,814
You'll preach.
I'd be a fraud as a preacher!

143
00:15:08,889 --> 00:15:11,719
We preach best
what we need to learn most.

144
00:15:12,788 --> 00:15:14,982
Do not send me away from you.

145
00:15:15,056 --> 00:15:17,145
God gave you gifts for a purpose.

146
00:15:17,220 --> 00:15:21,916
In Wittenberg, you will be
able to change minds, open eyes.

147
00:15:21,987 --> 00:15:24,316
That's what you want,
isn't it?

148
00:15:25,522 --> 00:15:27,416
To change things?

149
00:15:30,051 --> 00:15:32,145
Welcome to Wittenberg,
Father Martin.

150
00:15:32,219 --> 00:15:35,118
I am Ulrick Wender.
I'll be helping you in the parish.

151
00:15:35,186 --> 00:15:38,550
Gunter and I have caught some fish
for your first meal among us.

152
00:15:38,619 --> 00:15:40,140
Wender. That's a Dutch name.

153
00:15:40,217 --> 00:15:41,775
I was born in Utrecht.

154
00:15:52,783 --> 00:15:54,545
We have to stop for Hanna.

155
00:15:54,616 --> 00:15:57,639
She's a little... well, she keeps
a child hidden in the forest.

156
00:15:57,716 --> 00:15:59,648
A child living in the forest?

157
00:15:59,716 --> 00:16:00,840
A crippled child.

158
00:16:00,915 --> 00:16:03,244
If we don't buy the wood,
the little thing doesn't get fed.

159
00:16:05,714 --> 00:16:06,873
Wood, brother?

160
00:16:06,949 --> 00:16:08,140
Half or full bundle?

161
00:16:08,214 --> 00:16:09,942
As much as this will buy.

162
00:16:10,015 --> 00:16:13,776
This is our new priest,
Father Martin.

163
00:16:13,846 --> 00:16:15,779
Hello, Hanna.

164
00:16:17,546 --> 00:16:19,068
Thank you, Hanna.

165
00:16:31,111 --> 00:16:32,100
Otto!

166
00:16:33,178 --> 00:16:34,573
Good morning, Otto!

167
00:16:34,643 --> 00:16:37,234
This is our new preacher,
Father Martin.

168
00:16:38,710 --> 00:16:39,939
Father.

169
00:16:40,010 --> 00:16:42,066
I look forward
to seeing you at Mass.

170
00:16:46,376 --> 00:16:48,307
Good luck, there.

171
00:16:50,109 --> 00:16:52,474
Get back to your work, Thomas!

172
00:16:56,109 --> 00:16:57,904
You'd think I was a leper.

173
00:16:57,975 --> 00:16:59,962
They thought you were
coming for a collection.

174
00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:01,098
They thought I wanted their money?

175
00:17:01,173 --> 00:17:03,003
No, they thought the Pope
wanted their money.

176
00:17:03,074 --> 00:17:04,765
Every time
a new priest comes,

177
00:17:04,841 --> 00:17:07,101
they have to pay Rome
for the privilege of sacraments.

178
00:17:09,872 --> 00:17:12,168
Nulla salus Extra ecclesiamm.

179
00:17:13,172 --> 00:17:15,968
This debate has raged
for over 1,400 years,

180
00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:18,473
from the earliest days
of the church,

181
00:17:18,540 --> 00:17:20,903
but now
the Fifth Lateran Council

182
00:17:20,973 --> 00:17:24,426
has reaffirmed
Saint Cyprian's famous dictum,

183
00:17:24,506 --> 00:17:26,563
"Nulla salus Extra ecclesiamm...

184
00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:30,570
outside the Holy Roman church,
there is no salvation."

185
00:17:31,539 --> 00:17:34,061
Professor Carlstadt.

186
00:17:34,139 --> 00:17:36,127
What of the Greek Christians?

187
00:17:37,371 --> 00:17:39,065
The Greek Christians?

188
00:17:41,806 --> 00:17:45,759
Well, an early church document
clearly states

189
00:17:45,836 --> 00:17:48,859
that a Roman bishop,
not a Greek,

190
00:17:48,937 --> 00:17:50,801
was Saint Peter's successor.

191
00:17:50,870 --> 00:17:52,267
And, of course,

192
00:17:52,336 --> 00:17:55,858
it was Peter whom our Lord Christ
made His representative on earth.

193
00:17:56,903 --> 00:18:01,028
So we must consider the saints
of the Greek church to be damned?

194
00:18:02,568 --> 00:18:04,000
You miss the point.

195
00:18:04,068 --> 00:18:07,795
But that is the inevitable
consequence of Cyprian's claim...

196
00:18:07,868 --> 00:18:10,833
Greek Christians
are outside salvation.

197
00:18:10,901 --> 00:18:14,854
Or is this claim based on
an over-literal reading

198
00:18:14,933 --> 00:18:17,660
of Matthew 16:18...

199
00:18:17,732 --> 00:18:21,426
"Thou art Peter, and upon this rock,
I will build my church."

200
00:18:21,498 --> 00:18:24,397
Yet two lines earlier,
in verse 16,

201
00:18:24,466 --> 00:18:27,328
we find the very foundation
of our faith...

202
00:18:27,397 --> 00:18:30,159
"You are the Christ,
the Son of the living God."

203
00:18:30,232 --> 00:18:34,187
Surely the more universal
we make these great words,

204
00:18:34,264 --> 00:18:36,730
the nearer we come
to the mind of Christ.

205
00:18:36,798 --> 00:18:40,126
You question the authority
of the church council, sir?

206
00:18:40,198 --> 00:18:41,958
Not at all.

207
00:18:43,397 --> 00:18:45,295
Though in 1215,
the Fourth Lateran Council

208
00:18:45,363 --> 00:18:47,989
allowed that Cyprian
could be wrong

209
00:18:48,062 --> 00:18:51,324
and salvation
could exist outside the church...

210
00:18:54,661 --> 00:18:56,151
though not outside Christ.

211
00:19:05,159 --> 00:19:07,991
Thomas! Thomas!

212
00:19:18,760 --> 00:19:21,190
Why would he do such a thing?

213
00:19:30,325 --> 00:19:33,221
If only we knew
what was in his head.

214
00:19:33,290 --> 00:19:36,779
What does God say, Father,
for suicide?

215
00:19:38,656 --> 00:19:41,554
I never... Never said
I had the answers.

216
00:19:41,621 --> 00:19:43,315
I defy you, devil! You...

217
00:19:46,321 --> 00:19:49,810
I know your handiwork!
You and your stinking lies!

218
00:19:49,887 --> 00:19:53,751
Shaming... shaming...
shaming a mother,

219
00:19:53,821 --> 00:19:55,913
telling her
to hide her broken child,

220
00:19:55,987 --> 00:19:58,315
telling her boy to kill himself!

221
00:19:58,387 --> 00:20:00,616
Brother Martin, the boy's damned!
I'm not allowed to do this!

222
00:20:00,687 --> 00:20:03,014
The others won't rest
with him in here!

223
00:20:03,086 --> 00:20:05,644
This is holy ground!
He's a suicide!

224
00:20:05,719 --> 00:20:08,208
Tell Otto to bring his son!
Tell him!

225
00:20:16,186 --> 00:20:19,413
Some people say that
according to God's justice,

226
00:20:19,484 --> 00:20:21,712
this boy is damned
because he took his life.

227
00:20:21,784 --> 00:20:26,215
I say it was overcome
by the devil.

228
00:20:29,017 --> 00:20:31,446
Is this child
any more to blame

229
00:20:31,515 --> 00:20:34,071
for the despair that overtook him

230
00:20:34,148 --> 00:20:38,273
than an innocent man who is
murdered by a robber in the woods?

231
00:20:59,945 --> 00:21:01,740
God must be mercy.

232
00:21:21,576 --> 00:21:23,063
God is mercy.

233
00:21:26,810 --> 00:21:28,900
He is yours. Save him.

234
00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:49,898
Terrible. Unforgiving.
That's how I saw God.

235
00:21:53,173 --> 00:21:55,036
Punishing us in this life,

236
00:21:55,105 --> 00:21:57,833
committing us to Purgatory
after death,

237
00:21:57,906 --> 00:22:01,360
sentencing sinners to burn in hell
for all eternity.

238
00:22:01,439 --> 00:22:03,564
But I was wrong.

239
00:22:05,138 --> 00:22:07,763
Those who see God as angry...

240
00:22:10,839 --> 00:22:12,393
do not see Him rightly...

241
00:22:14,005 --> 00:22:16,936
but look upon a curtain
as if a dark storm cloud

242
00:22:17,004 --> 00:22:19,195
has been drawn across His face.

243
00:22:21,235 --> 00:22:25,895
If we truly believe
that Christ is our Savior...

244
00:22:27,303 --> 00:22:29,630
then we have a God of love,

245
00:22:29,702 --> 00:22:31,930
and to see God in faith

246
00:22:32,002 --> 00:22:34,762
is to look upon
His friendly heart.

247
00:22:37,667 --> 00:22:41,100
So when the devil throws
your sins in your face

248
00:22:41,168 --> 00:22:44,690
and declares that you deserve
death and hell, tell him this...

249
00:22:46,668 --> 00:22:49,460
"I admit that I deserve
death and hell. What of it?

250
00:22:49,532 --> 00:22:54,124
"For I know One who suffered
and made satisfaction in my behalf.

251
00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:56,528
"His name is Jesus Christ,
Son of God.

252
00:22:56,597 --> 00:22:59,858
Where He is,
there I shall be also."

253
00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:31,549
Prince Frederick wants him silenced.

254
00:23:31,627 --> 00:23:34,559
You should have stopped him,
Carlstadt. Forbidden him.

255
00:23:34,626 --> 00:23:36,455
Forbidden him, Spalatin?

256
00:23:36,526 --> 00:23:38,493
To teach theology?

257
00:23:38,559 --> 00:23:40,253
He undermines the prince.

258
00:23:40,327 --> 00:23:43,021
Come on, there is no
clear teaching on relics.

259
00:23:43,092 --> 00:23:44,422
When I became a monk,

260
00:23:44,491 --> 00:23:47,389
I believed the monk's cowl
would make me holy.

261
00:23:47,458 --> 00:23:50,253
Was I an arrogant fool?

262
00:23:51,259 --> 00:23:53,690
Now they have made me
a doctor of divinity,

263
00:23:53,758 --> 00:23:58,279
and I'm tempted to believe
that this scholar's robe

264
00:23:58,357 --> 00:24:00,017
will make me wise.

265
00:24:00,091 --> 00:24:04,080
Well, God once spoke
through the mouth of an ass.

266
00:24:05,155 --> 00:24:07,247
Perhaps he's about to
do so again.

267
00:24:07,323 --> 00:24:10,152
But I'll tell you straight
what I think.

268
00:24:13,588 --> 00:24:15,214
Who here has been to Rome?

269
00:24:16,455 --> 00:24:18,818
Did you buy an indulgence?

270
00:24:18,887 --> 00:24:20,184
No.

271
00:24:20,254 --> 00:24:21,742
I did.

272
00:24:23,554 --> 00:24:27,112
For a silver florin, I freed
my grandfather from Purgatory.

273
00:24:31,018 --> 00:24:34,472
For twice that, I could have sprung
grandma and Uncle Marcus too,

274
00:24:34,552 --> 00:24:37,575
but I didn't have the funds,
so they had to stay in the hot place.

275
00:24:37,650 --> 00:24:39,810
As for myself,
the priests assured me

276
00:24:39,885 --> 00:24:41,942
that by gazing at sacred relics,

277
00:24:42,018 --> 00:24:44,346
I could cut down
my time in Purgatory.

278
00:24:44,416 --> 00:24:47,110
Luckily for me, Rome had
enough nails from the Holy Cross

279
00:24:47,183 --> 00:24:49,707
to shoe every horse in Saxony.

280
00:24:50,716 --> 00:24:54,547
But there are relics
elsewhere in Christendom.

281
00:24:54,618 --> 00:24:58,911
Eighteen out of twelve apostles
are buried in Spain.

282
00:24:59,983 --> 00:25:01,916
And yet here in Wittenberg,

283
00:25:01,984 --> 00:25:04,540
we have the pick of the crop...

284
00:25:04,616 --> 00:25:06,376
bread from the Last Supper,

285
00:25:06,448 --> 00:25:08,811
milk from the Virgin's breast,

286
00:25:08,881 --> 00:25:12,041
a thorn that pierced
Christ's brow on Calvary,

287
00:25:12,114 --> 00:25:15,808
and 19,000 other bits
of sacred bone,

288
00:25:15,882 --> 00:25:18,574
all authenticated sacred relics.

289
00:25:18,647 --> 00:25:20,236
Even John Tetzel himself...

290
00:25:22,247 --> 00:25:25,303
Inquisitor of Poland and Saxony,

291
00:25:25,380 --> 00:25:29,070
seller of indulgences
extraordinary,

292
00:25:29,144 --> 00:25:34,543
connoisseur of relics,
envies our collection!

293
00:25:34,611 --> 00:25:37,600
To possess them
for a single night,

294
00:25:37,677 --> 00:25:42,405
he would willingly surrender
five years of his earthly life!

295
00:25:48,609 --> 00:25:51,199
Or 500 years in Purgatory.

296
00:25:56,575 --> 00:26:00,233
And now, good citizens
of Wittenberg,

297
00:26:00,308 --> 00:26:04,899
Prince Frederick of Saxony
invites you here to his courtyard

298
00:26:04,975 --> 00:26:08,203
to witness a mystery play

299
00:26:08,274 --> 00:26:12,865
on that ever most popular
of subjects...

300
00:26:12,940 --> 00:26:16,735
the Day of Judgment.

301
00:26:29,537 --> 00:26:31,402
Just like old times, Martin.

302
00:26:33,706 --> 00:26:35,363
Excellency.

303
00:26:37,202 --> 00:26:38,191
Secretary.

304
00:26:38,269 --> 00:26:40,031
Prince's secretary.

305
00:26:40,103 --> 00:26:43,626
Such secretaries have a habit
of becoming Excellencies.

306
00:26:43,703 --> 00:26:47,396
Even when we were law students,
I had you marked for great things.

307
00:26:47,469 --> 00:26:50,399
I was hoping you may be
of some help in that regard.

308
00:26:50,467 --> 00:26:53,832
Prince Frederick is
exceedingly proud of his relics.

309
00:26:55,136 --> 00:26:57,566
Then I'm sorry
he didn't hear my lecture.

310
00:26:57,634 --> 00:26:59,625
Perhaps I could have swayed him.

311
00:27:00,700 --> 00:27:02,690
He spent 20 years
and a large fortune

312
00:27:02,768 --> 00:27:04,393
building his collection,

313
00:27:04,467 --> 00:27:06,796
that in a week's time,
on All Saints' Day,

314
00:27:06,867 --> 00:27:09,164
thousands of faithful Christians
are coming to see.

315
00:27:09,234 --> 00:27:11,222
Paying to see.

316
00:27:11,300 --> 00:27:13,891
Contributions are
customary for indulgences,

317
00:27:13,966 --> 00:27:16,398
along with confession

318
00:27:16,464 --> 00:27:18,295
and true penitence.

319
00:27:20,966 --> 00:27:22,692
Ah, yes.

320
00:27:22,764 --> 00:27:24,356
The right prayers,
the right coins,

321
00:27:24,431 --> 00:27:31,193
and 1,900,202 years
and 27 days less in Purgatory.

322
00:27:31,264 --> 00:27:34,285
Do not bite the hand
that feeds you, Martin.

323
00:27:34,363 --> 00:27:38,454
Our prince pays
for your chair in this university.

324
00:27:39,963 --> 00:27:41,793
His relics pay for your chair.

325
00:27:45,130 --> 00:27:47,028
And he who pays the piper...

326
00:27:48,861 --> 00:27:50,452
calls the tune.

327
00:27:50,529 --> 00:27:52,721
Do not embarrass him.

328
00:27:52,796 --> 00:27:56,658
No one is more delighted
with your popularity here.

329
00:28:00,261 --> 00:28:02,954
He'd prefer you stay.

330
00:28:14,859 --> 00:28:16,348
Master Kranauer,

331
00:28:16,425 --> 00:28:20,255
is Luther open to persuasion?

332
00:28:21,257 --> 00:28:23,884
Not likely, my prince.
He's as bitable as...

333
00:28:23,959 --> 00:28:25,651
As a donkey,
you were going to say?

334
00:28:25,724 --> 00:28:26,814
Indeed, indeed.

335
00:28:31,056 --> 00:28:35,818
I am conscious of the great honor
you do me, Cardinal Cajetan,

336
00:28:35,889 --> 00:28:38,185
in recommending me
to His Holiness.

337
00:28:38,255 --> 00:28:41,346
I doubt you'll think it an honor
20 years from now, Aleander.

338
00:28:41,422 --> 00:28:44,546
My first master
was Pope Alexander VI.

339
00:28:45,887 --> 00:28:48,377
Three mistresses,
five children,

340
00:28:48,454 --> 00:28:53,319
and a most fervent devotion
to bullfighting.

341
00:28:53,387 --> 00:28:55,354
Pope Julius ll...

342
00:28:55,421 --> 00:28:58,716
a month ago, he was
spiritual leader of the whole world.

343
00:28:58,787 --> 00:29:00,514
Quite dignified-looking, isn't he?

344
00:29:01,587 --> 00:29:03,074
But it's not
what Julius wanted.

345
00:29:03,152 --> 00:29:05,778
He wanted to be
remembered as a warrior,

346
00:29:05,854 --> 00:29:08,545
sitting on his horse,
sword in hand,

347
00:29:08,618 --> 00:29:10,518
besieging the Venetians.

348
00:29:13,385 --> 00:29:15,247
What is it you seek, Aleander?

349
00:29:16,318 --> 00:29:17,510
To serve God.

350
00:29:19,485 --> 00:29:22,246
To serve him with all my heart.

351
00:29:22,317 --> 00:29:24,646
And that is
how you will be tempted.

352
00:30:22,043 --> 00:30:25,271
Pope Leo X,
sovereign bishop of Rome,

353
00:30:25,343 --> 00:30:26,899
successor to Saint Peter

354
00:30:26,976 --> 00:30:29,841
and holy head
of the Roman Catholic church.

355
00:30:30,842 --> 00:30:33,898
I've been longing for
someone to save Christendom.

356
00:30:37,808 --> 00:30:39,742
Let us pray he's come.

357
00:30:42,743 --> 00:30:45,263
Your reputation
precedes you, Aleander.

358
00:30:46,306 --> 00:30:47,704
Then I am fearful.

359
00:30:48,807 --> 00:30:51,500
Cardinal Cajetan says
you're a brilliant scholar,

360
00:30:51,573 --> 00:30:53,834
yet possess
a fervent desire to serve.

361
00:30:53,905 --> 00:30:56,429
I have need of such gifts.

362
00:30:56,508 --> 00:30:58,596
Excellency.

363
00:30:58,672 --> 00:31:02,104
Albert of Brandenburg wants
to be Archbishop of Mainz.

364
00:31:02,171 --> 00:31:06,262
He's already archbishop
of two German territories.

365
00:31:06,338 --> 00:31:07,326
Correct.

366
00:31:07,404 --> 00:31:10,199
Then canon law disqualifies him
from holding a third.

367
00:31:10,271 --> 00:31:15,533
Moreover, wasn't he underage
when granted his first post?

368
00:31:15,604 --> 00:31:16,863
Just so.

369
00:31:18,036 --> 00:31:19,763
Even as I myself was.

370
00:31:19,836 --> 00:31:22,665
Doubtless Cajetan has informed you

371
00:31:22,735 --> 00:31:25,930
that I was made cardinal
at the age of 13.

372
00:31:26,003 --> 00:31:29,457
Albert's ambition
could still serve God's glory.

373
00:31:29,535 --> 00:31:31,056
The Turks at the gates of Vienna.

374
00:31:32,069 --> 00:31:33,896
The French are
yapping at my heels,

375
00:31:33,967 --> 00:31:35,954
and Rome itself has
become an open sewer

376
00:31:36,033 --> 00:31:39,158
filled with wild dogs
and cats by day

377
00:31:39,233 --> 00:31:41,598
and brigands
and fornicators by night.

378
00:31:44,267 --> 00:31:46,595
And this new
Basilica of Saint Peter's,

379
00:31:46,665 --> 00:31:49,563
it's not just a building,
Aleander,

380
00:31:49,633 --> 00:31:54,065
it's a symbol of my intent
to restore Christ's church.

381
00:31:56,999 --> 00:31:59,692
And Albert could be
a minor blessing in that.

382
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:03,259
He offers 10,000 ducats
for Mainz.

383
00:32:04,331 --> 00:32:06,523
But Albert is bankrupt.

384
00:32:06,597 --> 00:32:07,959
You're well-informed.

385
00:32:09,662 --> 00:32:11,925
The Fuggers will
lend him the money.

386
00:32:11,998 --> 00:32:13,986
The imperial bankers?

387
00:32:15,495 --> 00:32:16,961
An eight-year loan.

388
00:32:17,028 --> 00:32:19,620
And how
would he repay them?

389
00:32:23,661 --> 00:32:25,094
John Tetzel.

390
00:32:27,594 --> 00:32:30,820
There, that's him!
Father John Tetzel!

391
00:32:33,194 --> 00:32:36,921
Don't unfurl the banners
until the fire ignites.

392
00:32:36,994 --> 00:32:40,357
Everything has been prepared
exactly as you instructed.

393
00:32:50,157 --> 00:32:51,850
Welcome, Father Tetzel!

394
00:32:52,923 --> 00:32:54,083
Come on, people!

395
00:33:00,923 --> 00:33:01,946
Gather round!

396
00:33:19,754 --> 00:33:21,379
Good people of Juterbog...

397
00:33:22,587 --> 00:33:25,349
have you ever burned
your hand in the fire?

398
00:33:26,419 --> 00:33:28,248
Even one finger
made raw by the flame

399
00:33:28,319 --> 00:33:30,410
will torment you
throughout the night.

400
00:33:30,487 --> 00:33:31,611
Is it not so?

401
00:33:31,686 --> 00:33:33,346
Yes!

402
00:33:49,416 --> 00:33:54,973
Imagine, then,
your entire body burning.

403
00:33:55,050 --> 00:33:56,844
Not for one sleepless night...

404
00:33:57,849 --> 00:33:59,007
not for a week,

405
00:33:59,082 --> 00:34:01,810
but for all eternity!

406
00:34:01,882 --> 00:34:05,405
Are we to be spared
the fires of damnation

407
00:34:05,482 --> 00:34:07,107
on the Judgment Day?

408
00:34:15,513 --> 00:34:21,069
Tonight, your Pope,
the vicar of Christ, sends you a gift,

409
00:34:21,145 --> 00:34:24,440
a gift to save you
from such fires,

410
00:34:24,511 --> 00:34:27,739
a special indulgence granted

411
00:34:27,812 --> 00:34:30,710
for the building
of Saint Peter's Church in Rome...

412
00:34:32,712 --> 00:34:36,404
where the bones
of the apostles lie moldering,

413
00:34:36,478 --> 00:34:38,909
exposed to wind and rain,

414
00:34:38,978 --> 00:34:41,876
desecrated by wild animals.

415
00:34:41,944 --> 00:34:46,502
Take heed the words
of your Holy Father who says,

416
00:34:46,576 --> 00:34:49,511
"Lay a stone for Saint Peter's,

417
00:34:49,579 --> 00:34:53,564
"and you lay the foundation
for your own salvation

418
00:34:53,644 --> 00:34:55,234
and happiness in heaven."

419
00:34:55,309 --> 00:34:59,241
How? With this indulgence.

420
00:34:59,309 --> 00:35:01,968
When? Tonight,

421
00:35:02,043 --> 00:35:04,531
and only tonight.

422
00:35:04,609 --> 00:35:07,404
Seek the Lord while he is near.

423
00:35:07,475 --> 00:35:09,531
Here is your raft.

424
00:35:09,607 --> 00:35:11,470
Take hold!

425
00:35:32,270 --> 00:35:35,670
In Heaven, there is
a treasure chest filled with merit.

426
00:35:37,005 --> 00:35:39,731
Merit from Christ Jesus,

427
00:35:39,803 --> 00:35:42,360
the Virgin Mary, and the saints,

428
00:35:42,437 --> 00:35:44,596
who, through their holy lives,

429
00:35:44,670 --> 00:35:49,568
have merit to spare
for us poor sinners in need.

430
00:35:51,303 --> 00:35:53,961
Tonight, that treasury
is open to you.

431
00:35:56,334 --> 00:35:58,562
Do you not hear their voices,

432
00:35:58,634 --> 00:36:00,862
the screaming voices?

433
00:36:02,534 --> 00:36:04,364
Your deceased parents.

434
00:36:05,367 --> 00:36:06,525
Grandparents.

435
00:36:07,533 --> 00:36:11,726
Uncles, aunts screaming.

436
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:14,289
Beloved child.

437
00:36:15,865 --> 00:36:17,491
Beloved child.

438
00:36:18,698 --> 00:36:20,495
Because, for a few coins,

439
00:36:20,565 --> 00:36:25,086
you can rescue them
from their punishments and pain.

440
00:36:26,531 --> 00:36:27,519
Listen.

441
00:36:27,596 --> 00:36:29,528
Open your ears.

442
00:36:30,830 --> 00:36:32,921
Father calling to son,

443
00:36:32,997 --> 00:36:35,520
mother to daughter.

444
00:36:36,697 --> 00:36:39,423
When a coin
in the coffer rings,

445
00:36:39,496 --> 00:36:42,325
the soul
from Purgatory springs.

446
00:36:44,995 --> 00:36:49,757
God-fearing man,
do you have a coin for Christ?

447
00:36:49,828 --> 00:36:51,384
Yes.

448
00:37:05,694 --> 00:37:06,954
Gentle mother...

449
00:37:09,459 --> 00:37:12,447
when the time comes,
make certain your crippled child

450
00:37:12,526 --> 00:37:14,582
can run to Jesus.

451
00:37:20,359 --> 00:37:22,878
These learned monks
are standing by

452
00:37:22,957 --> 00:37:24,718
to write down your name

453
00:37:24,790 --> 00:37:27,950
or the name of a loved one,
dead or alive, on this...

454
00:37:28,989 --> 00:37:33,284
your passport to
the celestial joys of Paradise.

455
00:37:41,557 --> 00:37:42,541
Name?

456
00:38:10,786 --> 00:38:12,307
We can preach
until we're hoarse,

457
00:38:12,385 --> 00:38:14,577
but if we cannot bring the Christ
of the Gospels to our people...

458
00:38:14,651 --> 00:38:16,641
...what do we offer them?
Dr. Martin!

459
00:38:24,384 --> 00:38:25,815
I did this for Grete.

460
00:38:30,217 --> 00:38:33,239
Issued by
the Archbishop of Mainz.

461
00:38:39,216 --> 00:38:40,613
Where did you get this?

462
00:38:40,681 --> 00:38:44,545
Juterbog.
I bought it in the church.

463
00:38:46,714 --> 00:38:48,612
It's just paper, Hanna.

464
00:38:50,147 --> 00:38:51,635
These words mean...

465
00:38:53,679 --> 00:38:54,976
nothing.

466
00:38:57,546 --> 00:38:58,978
It's no good?

467
00:38:59,047 --> 00:39:01,773
You must put your trust
in God's love.

468
00:39:01,845 --> 00:39:03,435
Save your money

469
00:39:03,513 --> 00:39:05,137
to feed Grete.

470
00:39:26,144 --> 00:39:28,200
"To Albert of Mainz.

471
00:39:28,276 --> 00:39:31,106
"father in Christ
and most illustrious prince.

472
00:39:31,174 --> 00:39:33,573
"forgive me that I should
dare to write to you.

473
00:39:33,642 --> 00:39:37,630
"I make bold
because it is my duty to serve you

474
00:39:37,709 --> 00:39:40,038
"and to warn you
of the crooked practices

475
00:39:40,107 --> 00:39:43,130
of those who claim
to represent Your Grace."

476
00:39:50,839 --> 00:39:53,998
"Christ did not command
the preaching of indulgences.

477
00:39:54,073 --> 00:39:55,662
but of the Gospel."

478
00:39:56,972 --> 00:39:58,461
Forward this to Rome.

479
00:39:59,539 --> 00:40:01,935
"Christians are to be taught

480
00:40:02,004 --> 00:40:04,300
"that he who gives to the poor

481
00:40:04,371 --> 00:40:05,996
"or lends to the needy

482
00:40:06,071 --> 00:40:09,629
does a better deed than he
who buys indulgences."

483
00:40:09,704 --> 00:40:11,466
"If the Pope
can empty Purgatory,

484
00:40:11,538 --> 00:40:14,798
why would he not do so
out of love rather than for money?"

485
00:40:18,971 --> 00:40:21,128
My God, who is this Martin Luther?

486
00:40:21,204 --> 00:40:24,069
Fritz!
What?

487
00:40:24,135 --> 00:40:26,124
Dr. Luther wanted
everyone to see that!

488
00:40:26,201 --> 00:40:27,861
And everyone will.

489
00:40:32,135 --> 00:40:34,123
Good people of Magdeburg,

490
00:40:34,202 --> 00:40:37,564
take hold of the raft
while you still can.

491
00:40:37,633 --> 00:40:40,791
So much grace
for so little coin!

492
00:40:47,632 --> 00:40:49,598
German money
for the German church.

493
00:40:49,665 --> 00:40:52,391
Does Saint Peter lie
in a German church?

494
00:40:52,463 --> 00:40:54,726
Or Saint Paul?
We don't need your saints.

495
00:40:54,798 --> 00:40:56,922
Or any of the holy apostles?

496
00:40:59,363 --> 00:41:03,352
With this indulgence,
I can absolve any sin.

497
00:41:03,431 --> 00:41:05,989
I can even save the soul of the man

498
00:41:06,064 --> 00:41:09,189
who violates
the mother of God herself.

499
00:41:14,662 --> 00:41:17,321
One-fifth of the usual take.

500
00:41:17,396 --> 00:41:19,987
How will you
explain this to Rome?

501
00:41:20,062 --> 00:41:21,494
Damn that heretic!

502
00:41:23,061 --> 00:41:25,289
He will burn in hell.

503
00:41:25,359 --> 00:41:27,849
This drunken little German monk

504
00:41:27,929 --> 00:41:30,984
is intoxicated with himself.

505
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:37,719
Sober him.

506
00:41:47,558 --> 00:41:49,353
Why was Prince Frederick
not apprised

507
00:41:49,424 --> 00:41:51,152
of your letter
to Albert of Mainz?

508
00:41:52,157 --> 00:41:53,645
Why?

509
00:41:53,723 --> 00:41:55,417
I did not want him compromised.

510
00:41:56,989 --> 00:41:58,922
Now our prince
can swear before God

511
00:41:58,990 --> 00:42:00,579
he had no knowledge
of my writings

512
00:42:00,658 --> 00:42:02,519
or my criticism
of the Archbishop.

513
00:42:02,589 --> 00:42:05,180
Criticism of the Archbishop?
What of your criticism of Rome?

514
00:42:05,255 --> 00:42:07,585
Do you have any idea
how embarrassing this is

515
00:42:07,656 --> 00:42:08,916
to Prince Frederick,

516
00:42:08,988 --> 00:42:10,419
his prize professor of theology

517
00:42:10,488 --> 00:42:12,283
drawing condemnation
from the Pope?

518
00:42:12,354 --> 00:42:15,718
My criticism was not
of the Holy Father himself,

519
00:42:15,789 --> 00:42:18,480
but of those rogues
who claim to represent him.

520
00:42:23,754 --> 00:42:27,209
You have been summoned
to appear by Rome.

521
00:42:27,287 --> 00:42:29,651
You are threatened
with excommunication.

522
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:35,080
But I'm a loyal son
of the church!

523
00:42:35,153 --> 00:42:37,083
I don't believe the Pope
would issue such a summons.

524
00:42:37,151 --> 00:42:39,014
Welcome to the world
of politics, Doctor.

525
00:42:40,484 --> 00:42:41,678
Martin...

526
00:42:45,984 --> 00:42:47,415
Lay low.

527
00:42:47,484 --> 00:42:49,676
Do not write
a single word to anyone

528
00:42:49,751 --> 00:42:52,011
until I have a chance
to sort this out.

529
00:42:53,950 --> 00:42:58,178
They've already published
my explanations of the 95 Theses.

530
00:42:58,249 --> 00:43:00,713
I dedicated it to Pope Leo.

531
00:43:05,481 --> 00:43:08,242
Clearly, clearly
you've heard the rumors...

532
00:43:09,247 --> 00:43:11,680
that the Pope has
summoned me to Augsburg.

533
00:43:11,748 --> 00:43:12,905
Well, it's true.

534
00:43:14,914 --> 00:43:17,880
It's true, and I pray fervently

535
00:43:17,948 --> 00:43:20,071
he will find no fault with me.

536
00:43:23,179 --> 00:43:25,203
But think on this
while I am gone.

537
00:43:28,245 --> 00:43:31,701
We obsess...

538
00:43:33,246 --> 00:43:34,734
over relics.

539
00:43:35,745 --> 00:43:37,371
Indulgences.

540
00:43:37,444 --> 00:43:39,533
Pilgrimages to holy places.

541
00:43:41,745 --> 00:43:45,404
Yet all the time,
all the time, there is Christ.

542
00:43:45,478 --> 00:43:48,602
Christ. Christ, here...

543
00:43:50,010 --> 00:43:51,941
in every corner,

544
00:43:52,009 --> 00:43:53,737
in every hour of the day.

545
00:43:53,809 --> 00:43:57,900
He isn't found
in the bones of saints...

546
00:43:59,010 --> 00:44:01,998
but here,
in your love for each other,

547
00:44:02,074 --> 00:44:04,064
in your love for one another...

548
00:44:05,073 --> 00:44:06,597
in His sacraments,

549
00:44:06,675 --> 00:44:09,573
and in God's holy word.

550
00:44:09,641 --> 00:44:15,073
If we, if we live the word,
by faith...

551
00:44:20,174 --> 00:44:23,605
in love

552
00:44:23,671 --> 00:44:27,865
and service to one another,

553
00:44:27,938 --> 00:44:31,597
we need fear
no man's judgment.

554
00:44:40,137 --> 00:44:42,000
Good to see you.
Thank you.

555
00:44:42,070 --> 00:44:44,534
Martin, the faculty
stands behind you.

556
00:44:45,537 --> 00:44:47,092
I have written a letter of protest,

557
00:44:47,169 --> 00:44:49,534
and I'll be the first to sign
should they arrest you in Augsburg.

558
00:44:49,603 --> 00:44:51,228
Thank you, Carlstadt.
Thank you.

559
00:44:59,834 --> 00:45:02,164
Bless you. Bless you.

560
00:45:05,866 --> 00:45:06,856
Father.

561
00:45:06,933 --> 00:45:08,422
Are you in trouble?

562
00:45:12,633 --> 00:45:14,929
What happens now?

563
00:45:15,999 --> 00:45:17,761
I honestly don't know.

564
00:45:20,266 --> 00:45:21,355
Well...

565
00:45:22,432 --> 00:45:24,692
Father, thank you.

566
00:45:24,763 --> 00:45:26,526
Thank you, Father.

567
00:45:26,598 --> 00:45:28,791
Just try to keep
your big mouth shut.

568
00:46:20,224 --> 00:46:21,712
Father.

569
00:46:21,790 --> 00:46:24,755
She wants you to know
that she prays for you every night.

570
00:47:12,485 --> 00:47:14,381
Father.

571
00:47:18,785 --> 00:47:19,770
Have I.?

572
00:47:24,283 --> 00:47:26,543
Have I caused you trouble too?

573
00:47:26,615 --> 00:47:28,445
I'm here
to get you through this.

574
00:47:29,615 --> 00:47:31,206
They've stopped
Tetzel from preaching.

575
00:47:31,282 --> 00:47:33,645
He's in Leipzig
under house arrest.

576
00:47:33,716 --> 00:47:36,010
That's a good sign, isn't it?
That means that Rome must understand.

577
00:47:36,082 --> 00:47:38,173
It just means he went too far.

578
00:47:39,913 --> 00:47:41,141
Martin.

579
00:47:41,215 --> 00:47:42,702
Martin, listen to me.

580
00:47:42,781 --> 00:47:44,871
Cardinal Cajetan
didn't bring you here

581
00:47:44,947 --> 00:47:46,912
to teach him the Scriptures.

582
00:47:46,981 --> 00:47:49,740
I beg you in God's name
to have a care.

583
00:47:49,812 --> 00:47:51,143
Be temperate.

584
00:47:51,213 --> 00:47:53,770
Don't talk, just listen.

585
00:47:53,846 --> 00:47:56,810
Your life
could depend on it.

586
00:47:56,880 --> 00:47:59,004
He's waiting for you.

587
00:48:30,209 --> 00:48:33,868
I am Girolamo Aleander,
representing Cardinal Cajetan.

588
00:48:34,875 --> 00:48:39,172
Your meeting won't take long.
I'm here to prepare you for tonight.

589
00:48:41,307 --> 00:48:42,295
Please.

590
00:48:43,873 --> 00:48:44,863
Sit.

591
00:48:55,073 --> 00:48:58,561
It was never my intention

592
00:48:58,639 --> 00:49:05,037
to say anything against
the honor and the dignity

593
00:49:05,105 --> 00:49:06,967
of our Holy Father.

594
00:49:08,805 --> 00:49:10,737
Of course not, Brother Martin.

595
00:49:12,904 --> 00:49:14,802
And that being the case,

596
00:49:14,871 --> 00:49:16,926
that we all desire peace,

597
00:49:17,003 --> 00:49:22,491
you only have to follow a few
simple rules of protocol.

598
00:49:24,103 --> 00:49:25,568
When you meet the Cardinal,

599
00:49:25,636 --> 00:49:28,568
you will throw yourself on the floor,
face to the ground.

600
00:49:28,636 --> 00:49:31,863
The Cardinal will tell you to stand,
at which time you will kneel

601
00:49:31,935 --> 00:49:35,195
and remain kneeling
throughout your hearing.

602
00:49:37,301 --> 00:49:38,664
Do you understand?

603
00:49:38,733 --> 00:49:40,063
Yes.

604
00:49:41,134 --> 00:49:44,725
If the church takes exception
to a single point,

605
00:49:44,799 --> 00:49:46,790
I will submit to her immediately.

606
00:49:46,867 --> 00:49:50,890
But I'm sure when the Cardinal
and Pope Leo

607
00:49:50,966 --> 00:49:52,295
understand my position...

608
00:49:53,965 --> 00:49:55,863
they'll find no fault with me.

609
00:50:00,031 --> 00:50:02,086
We have a misunderstanding.

610
00:50:03,131 --> 00:50:05,722
There will be no discussion.

611
00:50:07,796 --> 00:50:08,956
No debate.

612
00:50:12,463 --> 00:50:15,019
You have one word to say
and one word only.

613
00:50:16,096 --> 00:50:17,356
Revoco...

614
00:50:17,428 --> 00:50:19,394
I recant...

615
00:50:19,461 --> 00:50:21,155
and the matter is over.

616
00:50:22,961 --> 00:50:25,359
I think we do have
a misunderstanding.

617
00:50:25,427 --> 00:50:28,052
I came to Augsburg
to warn the Pope

618
00:50:28,128 --> 00:50:30,649
about the abuses
against the faithful

619
00:50:30,726 --> 00:50:32,556
by the indulgence preachers.

620
00:50:32,627 --> 00:50:34,058
Have a care, Brother Martin.

621
00:50:34,128 --> 00:50:35,887
It is the Pope who shall decide

622
00:50:35,959 --> 00:50:38,153
what is or is not
beneficial to Christendom.

623
00:50:40,392 --> 00:50:44,323
This evening, one word.

624
00:50:46,625 --> 00:50:47,614
Revoco.

625
00:50:51,390 --> 00:50:53,786
Thank you, Excellency.

626
00:51:01,556 --> 00:51:02,815
Brother Martin...

627
00:51:05,557 --> 00:51:08,852
with your permission,
I'm going to arrange a bath for you.

628
00:51:11,055 --> 00:51:12,714
Thank you, Excellency.

629
00:51:19,853 --> 00:51:22,014
My son, I know you desire

630
00:51:22,087 --> 00:51:25,314
to be a faithful servant
of Christ and His church.

631
00:51:25,387 --> 00:51:26,977
I am here to help you.

632
00:51:29,887 --> 00:51:32,317
Stand on your feet, my son.

633
00:51:39,885 --> 00:51:41,715
What do you have to say?

634
00:51:43,950 --> 00:51:45,678
Have I erred?

635
00:51:45,751 --> 00:51:48,772
Yes, you have erred.

636
00:51:48,849 --> 00:51:50,214
How?

637
00:51:52,685 --> 00:51:54,977
That I may avoid such error again.

638
00:51:55,048 --> 00:51:58,141
You have erred
by teaching new doctrines.

639
00:51:58,216 --> 00:52:01,205
Which of my teachings
is offensive to Rome?

640
00:52:01,282 --> 00:52:02,678
For one, indulgences.

641
00:52:02,748 --> 00:52:05,077
Pope Clement's decree,
Unigenitus.

642
00:52:05,147 --> 00:52:08,078
clearly states that
the merits of Christ

643
00:52:08,146 --> 00:52:10,306
are a treasure of indulgences.

644
00:52:10,380 --> 00:52:11,367
Acquire.

645
00:52:11,446 --> 00:52:14,141
I'm sorry, Your Grace.

646
00:52:14,215 --> 00:52:15,771
I think you'll find it says...

647
00:52:17,147 --> 00:52:21,307
"The merits of Christ acquire
the treasure of indulgences."

648
00:52:22,647 --> 00:52:24,544
I am not here
to wrangle with you.

649
00:52:24,612 --> 00:52:25,603
No, Your Grace.

650
00:52:25,680 --> 00:52:30,079
But Unigenitus was issued
175 years ago,

651
00:52:30,147 --> 00:52:33,237
and were this decree
not so embarrassing to our church,

652
00:52:33,312 --> 00:52:36,279
perhaps it would not be
commonly called Extravagante

653
00:52:37,545 --> 00:52:40,443
and left out of
most collections of canon law.

654
00:52:40,512 --> 00:52:43,569
It contradicts Anommitanos.

655
00:52:43,645 --> 00:52:47,076
Our present Pope Leo is
in harmony with Clement's decree...

656
00:52:48,178 --> 00:52:49,803
and there ends the matter.

657
00:52:49,877 --> 00:52:52,468
The honor of the Papacy
is not preserved

658
00:52:52,544 --> 00:52:54,770
by the naked assertion
of Papal authority,

659
00:52:54,842 --> 00:52:57,671
but by safeguarding
the Pope's credibility

660
00:52:57,742 --> 00:53:00,333
and the clear testimonies
of divine Scripture.

661
00:53:00,408 --> 00:53:03,376
The Pope interprets Scripture.

662
00:53:03,443 --> 00:53:05,237
He may interpret it...

663
00:53:07,407 --> 00:53:08,964
but he is not above it.

664
00:53:09,041 --> 00:53:11,132
He was to say one word.

665
00:53:11,208 --> 00:53:13,366
We both know
the selling of indulgences

666
00:53:13,440 --> 00:53:15,429
have no Scriptural support.

667
00:53:15,507 --> 00:53:18,667
If common people could
read the Bible for themselves,

668
00:53:18,740 --> 00:53:20,669
they would understand
just how broad

669
00:53:20,738 --> 00:53:22,171
the church's interpretations are.

670
00:53:22,240 --> 00:53:23,727
That is outrageous!

671
00:53:24,740 --> 00:53:26,567
The Scriptures are too complex

672
00:53:26,637 --> 00:53:28,536
for even the average priest
to understand,

673
00:53:28,605 --> 00:53:30,093
much less the common man!

674
00:53:30,171 --> 00:53:32,262
Indulgences are
an established tradition

675
00:53:32,338 --> 00:53:35,032
which give comfort to
millions of simple Christians.

676
00:53:35,105 --> 00:53:37,832
Comfort? Your Grace,
I'm not interested in comfort.

677
00:53:37,905 --> 00:53:39,369
Comfort is not the issue!

678
00:53:39,436 --> 00:53:41,800
So you consider your discomfort

679
00:53:41,869 --> 00:53:44,859
more important than
the survival of Christianity?

680
00:53:44,936 --> 00:53:47,663
I'm interested in the truth!
The truth?

681
00:53:47,735 --> 00:53:50,600
The Turks are building armies
on our eastern borders.

682
00:53:50,670 --> 00:53:52,429
We are on the brink of war.

683
00:53:52,501 --> 00:53:56,094
To the west, lies a world of souls
who have never heard the name of Christ.

684
00:53:56,169 --> 00:53:57,758
That is the truth!

685
00:53:57,835 --> 00:54:00,130
Christianity is tearing apart,

686
00:54:00,201 --> 00:54:02,927
and just when we need
unity most,

687
00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:04,522
you create confusion!

688
00:54:04,600 --> 00:54:07,090
My goal is not to quarrel
with the Pope or the church,

689
00:54:07,167 --> 00:54:10,428
but to defend them
with more than mere opinion.

690
00:54:10,499 --> 00:54:13,727
The Gospel cannot be denied
for the word of man.

691
00:54:16,832 --> 00:54:19,265
I refuse to argue
with that monk.

692
00:54:20,698 --> 00:54:22,722
You said he was a simpleton.

693
00:54:22,798 --> 00:54:25,854
He questioned
the Pope's authority.

694
00:54:26,997 --> 00:54:29,258
Anommitanos.

695
00:54:29,330 --> 00:54:30,591
Unigenitus.

696
00:54:30,663 --> 00:54:35,096
Or shall we call it Extravagante
like the rest of the world?

697
00:54:35,163 --> 00:54:36,651
He's a heretic.

698
00:54:38,829 --> 00:54:40,556
Our orders were clear.

699
00:54:42,163 --> 00:54:43,492
Either he recant...

700
00:54:44,496 --> 00:54:46,553
Do not presume
to lecture me, Aleander.

701
00:54:47,628 --> 00:54:49,752
I know perfectly well
what our orders were.

702
00:54:52,228 --> 00:54:54,921
I kept my temper and merely asked
to be shown the error of my ways.

703
00:54:54,993 --> 00:54:57,924
If you do not recant, you will be
delivered to the Inquisition.

704
00:54:57,992 --> 00:55:00,753
Will you recant?

705
00:55:01,760 --> 00:55:02,748
What?

706
00:55:07,592 --> 00:55:10,150
Then there is only one way
to save your life.

707
00:55:12,426 --> 00:55:13,412
Kneel.

708
00:55:14,658 --> 00:55:16,647
Kneel!

709
00:55:16,723 --> 00:55:18,122
Martin Luther,

710
00:55:18,192 --> 00:55:21,678
in the name of Christ,
I release you from your vows

711
00:55:21,757 --> 00:55:23,312
to the Augustinian order

712
00:55:23,389 --> 00:55:25,753
and commend you to God's mercy.

713
00:55:25,823 --> 00:55:28,881
I'm no longer your father,
do you understand?

714
00:55:28,957 --> 00:55:31,355
Were I your father,
then under canon law,

715
00:55:31,424 --> 00:55:34,513
I would be obligated to
deliver you to the authorities!

716
00:55:36,588 --> 00:55:39,555
But I'll be
your spiritual father...

717
00:55:42,087 --> 00:55:44,213
until the day I die.

718
00:55:51,353 --> 00:55:53,945
Now go.

719
00:55:54,021 --> 00:55:55,508
Go quickly!

720
00:55:57,019 --> 00:55:59,610
There is a horse at the back gate.

721
00:55:59,686 --> 00:56:02,447
Don't leave me alone,
Father. Please.

722
00:56:02,518 --> 00:56:03,506
Father!

723
00:56:22,850 --> 00:56:24,337
My prince.

724
00:56:24,683 --> 00:56:25,842
how shall I answer?

725
00:56:26,849 --> 00:56:30,338
The Cardinal demands
that Luther be delivered to Rome

726
00:56:30,416 --> 00:56:31,904
or banished from Saxony.

727
00:56:33,015 --> 00:56:35,573
Have you read Luther's work?

728
00:56:36,850 --> 00:56:38,611
Yes, all of it.

729
00:56:38,682 --> 00:56:41,112
Yes. He's a brilliant
little monk, isn't he,

730
00:56:41,181 --> 00:56:43,512
with an independent mind.

731
00:56:44,680 --> 00:56:46,239
Yes, he is.

732
00:56:47,346 --> 00:56:50,675
Oh, Spalatin, you were
at law school with him, weren't you?

733
00:56:50,747 --> 00:56:53,235
Did he show any inclination then

734
00:56:53,313 --> 00:56:58,677
of surrender to influence?

735
00:56:58,746 --> 00:56:59,734
No.

736
00:56:59,813 --> 00:57:03,743
After all, all he has done
is to debate, eloquently,

737
00:57:03,811 --> 00:57:05,937
on a most interesting subject.

738
00:57:06,012 --> 00:57:07,340
And, after all,

739
00:57:07,412 --> 00:57:11,638
that is all one can ask
a good university professor to do.

740
00:57:13,577 --> 00:57:15,941
So what shall we say
to the Cardinal?

741
00:57:22,776 --> 00:57:24,208
Nothing.

742
00:57:24,275 --> 00:57:27,208
My lord, we have to respond.

743
00:57:27,275 --> 00:57:29,536
Spalatin, there are
two ways of saying no

744
00:57:29,607 --> 00:57:32,402
to someone you believe to be
stronger than yourself.

745
00:57:32,475 --> 00:57:35,529
The first is to say nothing

746
00:57:35,606 --> 00:57:39,368
and go on merely doing
what you were doing before,

747
00:57:39,440 --> 00:57:41,871
and pretend
that you never heard,

748
00:57:41,940 --> 00:57:47,872
allow time and inertia
to be your allies.

749
00:57:49,206 --> 00:57:50,466
And the second?

750
00:57:50,538 --> 00:57:56,266
And the second is to say no
in such a kind and thoughtful way

751
00:57:56,337 --> 00:57:58,802
it befuddles them.

752
00:57:58,870 --> 00:58:01,859
Naturally, if both
these strategies fail,

753
00:58:01,937 --> 00:58:04,768
there is nothing but to relent.

754
00:58:06,538 --> 00:58:08,799
Or to fight!

755
00:58:08,870 --> 00:58:11,460
And of course,
if you decide to fight,

756
00:58:11,536 --> 00:58:14,625
you also have to decide to win.

757
00:58:16,035 --> 00:58:20,469
No, I'm not going to
send my monk to Rome.

758
00:58:20,536 --> 00:58:23,128
They'll only kill him.

759
00:58:23,203 --> 00:58:25,463
It's so irritating.

760
00:58:25,535 --> 00:58:28,125
Who are they
to deprive my university

761
00:58:28,202 --> 00:58:29,826
of such a fine mind?

762
00:58:30,802 --> 00:58:34,028
Your little German monk
is still spewing filth at us.

763
00:58:35,100 --> 00:58:37,225
He has a new cartoon circulating.

764
00:58:38,265 --> 00:58:40,754
He calls you an ass
playing a harp, Cajetan.

765
00:58:44,466 --> 00:58:47,954
The point, Your Holiness,
is that he does not write in Latin.

766
00:58:48,033 --> 00:58:49,397
Luther writes in German.

767
00:58:49,467 --> 00:58:51,363
That is his sword.

768
00:58:52,432 --> 00:58:54,455
So he does not
play like a gentleman?

769
00:58:55,932 --> 00:58:58,397
Ordinary Germans
can quote his work.

770
00:58:59,431 --> 00:59:02,225
If we wait,
we might be too late.

771
00:59:02,299 --> 00:59:04,524
You exaggerate his importance.

772
00:59:04,596 --> 00:59:08,120
Besides, you told me yourself
you agree with his list of abuses.

773
00:59:08,198 --> 00:59:10,185
Some of his concerns
have long been held

774
00:59:10,263 --> 00:59:12,387
by those who love the church, yes.

775
00:59:13,462 --> 00:59:15,487
I don't suppose your little monk

776
00:59:15,564 --> 00:59:18,256
would be interested
in a cardinal's hat?

777
00:59:19,326 --> 00:59:22,054
I think he would be
ashamed to wear it, Your Holiness.

778
00:59:22,127 --> 00:59:25,856
We must put pressure
on Prince Frederick, Excellency.

779
00:59:25,929 --> 00:59:27,416
Aleander is right.

780
00:59:27,494 --> 00:59:30,118
Frederick is our key to Luther.

781
00:59:31,628 --> 00:59:33,524
Germany is on the brink of chaos,

782
00:59:33,592 --> 00:59:35,422
and we don't want
to divide the church.

783
00:59:35,492 --> 00:59:38,084
I grow tired of you
missing the big picture, Cajetan.

784
00:59:38,161 --> 00:59:41,988
That's why I've sent Karl von Miltitz
to Germany in your stead.

785
01:00:08,188 --> 01:00:11,985
My lord, greetings
from our most Holy Father.

786
01:00:13,290 --> 01:00:15,618
As for me, I am
especially honored to meet you,

787
01:00:15,687 --> 01:00:19,744
as all of Christendom knows of
your steadfast devotion to the faith.

788
01:00:19,820 --> 01:00:22,218
I have brought you a gift
from our Holy Father...

789
01:00:23,822 --> 01:00:28,376
to express his highest esteem
for your lordship,

790
01:00:28,453 --> 01:00:30,145
for, as you know, my lord,

791
01:00:30,219 --> 01:00:33,014
this most sacred rose
is consecrated annually

792
01:00:33,087 --> 01:00:34,779
by Pope Leo himself,

793
01:00:34,853 --> 01:00:36,944
and sent to just one
favored prince

794
01:00:37,018 --> 01:00:39,813
in recognition
of heroic loyalty and devotion

795
01:00:39,885 --> 01:00:41,349
to Christ's holy church.

796
01:00:57,283 --> 01:01:00,908
Spalatin, I'm sorry
for keeping you so late,

797
01:01:00,984 --> 01:01:02,882
but this is a matter
of some urgency.

798
01:01:02,950 --> 01:01:09,473
First of all,
give Miltitz 600 ducats

799
01:01:09,549 --> 01:01:12,379
as an expression of our gratitude.

800
01:01:12,450 --> 01:01:16,311
My lord, the rose
is hardly worth so much.

801
01:01:16,380 --> 01:01:18,073
Oh, I know that.

802
01:01:18,148 --> 01:01:22,943
And then tell them that
we will not deliver Luther to Rome.

803
01:01:23,013 --> 01:01:25,502
And get that...
that rose...

804
01:01:25,579 --> 01:01:28,738
Put it among the relics,

805
01:01:28,812 --> 01:01:31,870
and while you're about it,
move all the relics out.

806
01:01:31,946 --> 01:01:34,740
Move them to someplace
I don't even know where they are.

807
01:01:34,813 --> 01:01:37,300
I don't want to know
where they are. I want...

808
01:01:37,378 --> 01:01:38,638
Go on.

809
01:01:43,377 --> 01:01:45,640
When I was a child,
I thought like a child,

810
01:01:45,712 --> 01:01:48,142
I was a child,
I played like a child.

811
01:01:50,544 --> 01:01:54,134
And now, thanks to the adults,

812
01:01:54,209 --> 01:01:58,265
I've had to join
the world of adults.

813
01:02:00,243 --> 01:02:03,105
And I am appalled...

814
01:02:04,209 --> 01:02:06,970
by how easy they thought it was

815
01:02:07,043 --> 01:02:09,472
to bribe me!

816
01:02:47,711 --> 01:02:49,371
Armed horsemen!

817
01:02:49,445 --> 01:02:51,375
Over there!

818
01:03:08,407 --> 01:03:10,498
What is so important
that you interrupt us?

819
01:03:10,575 --> 01:03:12,563
Prince Frederick of Saxony.

820
01:03:13,575 --> 01:03:16,439
He refuses to surrender Luther
to you, Your Holiness.

821
01:03:18,906 --> 01:03:21,338
Go! Go, go!

822
01:03:26,472 --> 01:03:29,164
Arise, O Lord.
and judge thy cause.

823
01:03:30,172 --> 01:03:32,898
A wild boar
has invaded thy vineyard.

824
01:03:34,806 --> 01:03:36,633
We can no longer
suffer the serpent

825
01:03:36,704 --> 01:03:39,101
to creep through
the field of the Lord.

826
01:04:03,067 --> 01:04:07,158
The books of Martin Luther
are to be examined and burned.

827
01:04:07,233 --> 01:04:09,257
Anyone who presumes to infringe

828
01:04:09,334 --> 01:04:11,765
our excommunication
and anathema

829
01:04:11,834 --> 01:04:14,560
will stand under the wrath
of Almighty God

830
01:04:14,633 --> 01:04:17,463
and the Apostles Peter
and Paul.

831
01:04:17,532 --> 01:04:19,054
Amen.

832
01:04:27,398 --> 01:04:31,352
You can burn his books,
but you can't burn his ideas!

833
01:04:32,365 --> 01:04:35,159
Go back to Rome, you butchers!

834
01:04:35,231 --> 01:04:37,560
Go burn your own books!

835
01:04:37,631 --> 01:04:40,324
Go burn the Pope's books!

836
01:04:40,396 --> 01:04:44,659
Papist devils!
Papist devils, leave us!

837
01:04:44,729 --> 01:04:47,717
By order of His Holiness,
Pope Leo X...

838
01:04:48,763 --> 01:04:50,989
the works of Martin Luther

839
01:04:51,061 --> 01:04:53,720
shall be erased
from the memory of man!

840
01:04:53,793 --> 01:04:56,816
Martin Luther speaks the truth!

841
01:04:56,894 --> 01:04:59,155
Devils.
Here, Father!

842
01:04:59,228 --> 01:05:01,351
Find someone else to do it!

843
01:05:10,825 --> 01:05:12,815
He belongs to us!

844
01:05:25,757 --> 01:05:31,191
This... is what Rome calls
a Papal Bull,

845
01:05:31,258 --> 01:05:33,518
an edict from the Pope himself.

846
01:05:33,590 --> 01:05:37,454
There's only one thing to do
with this blast of wind.

847
01:05:38,756 --> 01:05:41,779
Yes! Feed the fire!
Feed the fire with canon law!

848
01:05:41,856 --> 01:05:44,846
Feed the fire with every lie
ever written in Rome!

849
01:05:44,922 --> 01:05:47,353
Come on, feed it!
Feed the flames!

850
01:05:47,421 --> 01:05:48,944
Feed it!

851
01:05:49,021 --> 01:05:51,012
That's right, feed the flames!

852
01:05:53,521 --> 01:05:55,679
Feed the flames!
Feed them!

853
01:05:58,854 --> 01:06:00,842
My Emperor.

854
01:06:00,920 --> 01:06:02,443
My good uncle.

855
01:06:02,519 --> 01:06:05,951
Allow me to extend
my congratulations on your elevation.

856
01:06:06,019 --> 01:06:09,180
I've come to speak to you
about Martin Luther.

857
01:06:09,254 --> 01:06:13,445
Our Holy Father has sent
his new cardinal to advise us.

858
01:06:13,518 --> 01:06:17,246
Oh! You mean you've
traveled all the way from Rome

859
01:06:17,319 --> 01:06:20,876
just in order to advise us
about this small matter?

860
01:06:20,951 --> 01:06:25,782
Heresy is never
a small matter, my lord.

861
01:06:27,017 --> 01:06:30,381
Your Highness, if I might
for a moment have your ear.

862
01:06:30,453 --> 01:06:34,313
If your business is Martin Luther...
My business is Saxony, sir...

863
01:06:34,382 --> 01:06:38,475
...and I wish a brief audience
with my Emperor.

864
01:06:51,280 --> 01:06:53,642
Deliver Luther to Rome.
I cannot.

865
01:06:53,713 --> 01:06:57,373
He's my subject. It's my duty to see
that he gets a fair hearing.

866
01:06:57,448 --> 01:06:58,968
Aleander has given me his word

867
01:06:59,047 --> 01:07:01,877
that the Inquisition will
give Luther a proper hearing.

868
01:07:01,947 --> 01:07:05,206
The Rome Inquisition
does not give hearings, my lord.

869
01:07:05,279 --> 01:07:07,676
It gives death sentences.

870
01:07:07,745 --> 01:07:12,144
And the whole of Germany
prays that you will defend her.

871
01:07:12,212 --> 01:07:14,178
The heretic must be tried.

872
01:07:15,278 --> 01:07:19,436
Your blessed grandfather
Maximilian

873
01:07:19,508 --> 01:07:21,999
told us that no German subject

874
01:07:22,079 --> 01:07:25,668
would ever be condemned
without a fair trial

875
01:07:25,743 --> 01:07:28,709
in his own country.

876
01:07:34,142 --> 01:07:36,003
Then we shall hear him
in Germany.

877
01:07:37,209 --> 01:07:38,470
In Worms.

878
01:07:38,543 --> 01:07:42,802
Worms is still a very long way
from Wittenberg, my lord,

879
01:07:42,873 --> 01:07:46,498
and the Pope himself has
put a bounty on Luther's head.

880
01:07:46,574 --> 01:07:49,096
His spies are everywhere,

881
01:07:49,173 --> 01:07:51,968
in defiance of my humble rule,

882
01:07:52,039 --> 01:07:56,300
and therefore, sir,
in defiance of your greater rule.

883
01:07:56,372 --> 01:07:59,635
Then I will ensure
Martin Luther's safe conduct

884
01:07:59,707 --> 01:08:01,137
to a fair hearing.

885
01:08:01,205 --> 01:08:04,637
I myself shall send you
an imperial guard to escort him.

886
01:08:05,871 --> 01:08:07,395
On that you have my word.

887
01:08:08,403 --> 01:08:09,893
Oh, yes.

888
01:08:21,535 --> 01:08:23,468
Martin Luther is coming!

889
01:08:52,431 --> 01:08:54,523
Bless us, Father!
Please bless us!

890
01:09:18,197 --> 01:09:22,253
Help my family, please, Doctor!
Give us your blessing!

891
01:09:28,597 --> 01:09:30,788
Don't kneel to me.
I'm no saint.

892
01:09:30,861 --> 01:09:33,122
Bless me, Father!
Bless me, Father!

893
01:09:33,193 --> 01:09:35,817
Father! Bless me, Father!

894
01:09:43,293 --> 01:09:45,192
I thought
you had abandoned me.

895
01:09:46,793 --> 01:09:48,884
I thought I was
alone again in this world.

896
01:09:48,958 --> 01:09:51,051
Be still, Martin.

897
01:09:51,127 --> 01:09:53,388
One slip, and you'll
save the Emperor a trial.

898
01:09:54,958 --> 01:09:56,617
I'm here to serve you.

899
01:09:57,626 --> 01:09:59,647
I jest because I'm so afraid.

900
01:10:01,291 --> 01:10:06,053
Martin, I hoped
you'd help reform the church,

901
01:10:06,123 --> 01:10:07,520
not destroy it.

902
01:10:08,789 --> 01:10:13,382
With all its sins,
the church is still the church.

903
01:10:13,457 --> 01:10:16,718
What is a child
without its family?

904
01:10:17,821 --> 01:10:21,050
How would people fare
left to themselves,

905
01:10:21,121 --> 01:10:22,950
helpless and frightened?

906
01:10:27,621 --> 01:10:30,780
All my life, I have seen
a world that hates evil

907
01:10:30,854 --> 01:10:32,582
more than it loves good.

908
01:10:36,386 --> 01:10:39,841
I beg you
to look to the good, Martin.

909
01:10:46,387 --> 01:10:49,147
You are tearing the world apart.

910
01:10:54,217 --> 01:10:56,808
That day when you
sent me out so boldly

911
01:10:56,883 --> 01:10:58,578
to change the world...

912
01:11:00,350 --> 01:11:03,714
Did you really think
there wouldn't be a cost?

913
01:11:15,214 --> 01:11:18,544
It is simply a matter
of individual conscience.

914
01:11:28,414 --> 01:11:31,745
They'll burn him for sure.

915
01:11:57,076 --> 01:12:00,270
Do you, Martin Luther,
recognize these books?

916
01:12:00,343 --> 01:12:04,604
The 95 Theses. A Sermon
on Indulgence and Grace.

917
01:12:04,676 --> 01:12:07,164
The Babylonian Captivity.

918
01:12:07,242 --> 01:12:08,969
Freedom of a Christian.

919
01:12:09,042 --> 01:12:12,803
Address to the Christian Nobility
of the German Nation?

920
01:12:13,875 --> 01:12:15,430
Are you the author?

921
01:12:21,241 --> 01:12:22,604
All are mine.

922
01:12:22,674 --> 01:12:26,070
These books contain heresies
against our holy church.

923
01:12:27,140 --> 01:12:29,504
Do you recant
what you've written?

924
01:12:37,237 --> 01:12:38,600
I...

925
01:12:38,670 --> 01:12:40,432
Please, God,
let him say the right thing.

926
01:12:40,504 --> 01:12:42,563
I was...
Speak up.

927
01:12:49,402 --> 01:12:51,426
May I have time to consider?

928
01:12:51,504 --> 01:12:53,662
You have had the time,

929
01:12:53,736 --> 01:12:56,225
and you should have been
prepared to answer.

930
01:12:58,968 --> 01:13:01,332
I would like to answer
satisfactorily,

931
01:13:01,401 --> 01:13:04,231
without injury
to the divine word

932
01:13:04,300 --> 01:13:06,323
or danger to my soul.

933
01:13:06,401 --> 01:13:10,332
Any one of us might be
expected to bear witness,

934
01:13:10,399 --> 01:13:13,489
unequivocally and fearlessly
at any time.

935
01:13:13,565 --> 01:13:16,054
All the more in your case,

936
01:13:16,133 --> 01:13:19,428
a famous, experienced
professor of theology.

937
01:13:32,497 --> 01:13:35,089
We grant you one day.

938
01:13:36,230 --> 01:13:38,163
Tomorrow you shall answer.

939
01:13:42,762 --> 01:13:44,251
Damn you, go back to hell!

940
01:13:44,329 --> 01:13:46,091
Damn you,
damn you, damn you!

941
01:13:46,162 --> 01:13:48,491
Damn you, go back to hell!

942
01:13:50,496 --> 01:13:52,485
Shut up, shut up,
shut up!

943
01:13:52,561 --> 01:13:55,425
Shut up! I feel
your foul breath on my neck!

944
01:13:55,494 --> 01:13:58,460
Happy devil you are,
to see me mute!

945
01:13:58,527 --> 01:14:03,790
Shaking... shaking
like an animal at the slaughter!

946
01:14:03,862 --> 01:14:05,884
Oh, my, yes.
Well, where is his faith now?

947
01:14:05,961 --> 01:14:08,425
Where's his faith now?
Where's his boasting now?

948
01:14:08,493 --> 01:14:10,392
Where's his boasting.?

949
01:14:16,327 --> 01:14:19,759
I am yours. Save me.

950
01:14:21,159 --> 01:14:23,283
I am yours.

951
01:14:24,360 --> 01:14:25,551
Save me.

952
01:14:27,160 --> 01:14:28,850
I am yours.

953
01:14:28,924 --> 01:14:30,447
Save me.

954
01:14:41,590 --> 01:14:43,555
Speak well, Doctor.
Good luck, Martin.

955
01:14:43,622 --> 01:14:45,453
Good luck.
Good luck, Martin.

956
01:14:55,521 --> 01:14:58,487
God be with you.
I pray Thee do Thy will.

957
01:14:58,555 --> 01:15:01,213
Order in the hall.

958
01:15:01,287 --> 01:15:03,276
Order!

959
01:15:04,753 --> 01:15:06,116
Order!

960
01:15:13,585 --> 01:15:18,040
Martin Luther, are you
the author of these writings?

961
01:15:19,118 --> 01:15:20,549
I am.

962
01:15:20,618 --> 01:15:23,777
Do you recant
what you have written here?

963
01:15:27,117 --> 01:15:30,413
I cannot renounce all of my works
because they are not all the same.

964
01:15:32,683 --> 01:15:34,342
First are those books in which

965
01:15:34,416 --> 01:15:38,938
I have described Christian faith
and life so simply that

966
01:15:39,014 --> 01:15:42,709
even my opponents have admitted
that these works are useful.

967
01:15:42,782 --> 01:15:46,372
To renounce these writings
would be unthinkable,

968
01:15:46,447 --> 01:15:49,935
for that would be to renounce
accepted Christian truths.

969
01:15:50,013 --> 01:15:51,878
He is not here
to make speeches,

970
01:15:51,948 --> 01:15:53,743
only to answer.

971
01:15:53,814 --> 01:15:57,108
The second group of my work
is directed against the foul doctrine

972
01:15:57,179 --> 01:15:59,645
and evil living of the Popes,

973
01:15:59,712 --> 01:16:02,075
past and present.

974
01:16:02,146 --> 01:16:03,872
No!
Yes!

975
01:16:03,947 --> 01:16:08,842
Through the laws of the Pope
and the doctrines of men,

976
01:16:08,911 --> 01:16:13,208
the consciences of the faithful have
been miserably vexed and flayed.

977
01:16:15,444 --> 01:16:18,739
If I recant these books...

978
01:16:20,177 --> 01:16:24,040
I will do nothing
but add strength to tyranny

979
01:16:24,109 --> 01:16:25,938
and open not just the windows
but also the doors

980
01:16:26,009 --> 01:16:27,601
to this great ungodliness.

981
01:16:28,976 --> 01:16:31,204
He has condemned himself.

982
01:16:31,276 --> 01:16:33,104
In the third group,

983
01:16:33,175 --> 01:16:35,868
I have written against
private persons and individuals

984
01:16:35,942 --> 01:16:37,429
who uphold Roman tyranny

985
01:16:37,507 --> 01:16:41,372
and have attacked my own efforts
to encourage piety to Christ.

986
01:16:43,972 --> 01:16:44,962
I confess...

987
01:16:45,973 --> 01:16:48,267
that I have
written too harshly.

988
01:16:51,940 --> 01:16:54,098
I am but a man and I can err.

989
01:16:56,772 --> 01:17:01,363
Only let my errors
be proven by Scripture...

990
01:17:04,970 --> 01:17:09,096
and I will revoke my work
and throw my books into the fire.

991
01:17:09,169 --> 01:17:11,397
You have not
answered the question.

992
01:17:13,870 --> 01:17:15,928
You, Martin Luther,

993
01:17:16,003 --> 01:17:18,129
will not draw into doubt
those things

994
01:17:18,203 --> 01:17:21,599
which the Catholic church
has judged already,

995
01:17:21,669 --> 01:17:24,964
things that have passed into usage,

996
01:17:25,035 --> 01:17:27,933
rite, and observance...

997
01:17:29,267 --> 01:17:30,699
the faith that Christ,

998
01:17:30,768 --> 01:17:34,393
the most perfect Lawgiver,
ordained,

999
01:17:34,467 --> 01:17:37,695
the faith the martyrs
strengthened with their blood.

1000
01:17:41,367 --> 01:17:43,594
You wait in vain
for a disputation

1001
01:17:43,666 --> 01:17:46,758
over things that
you are obligated to believe.

1002
01:17:48,998 --> 01:17:51,089
Now give your answer.

1003
01:17:53,430 --> 01:17:55,691
Yes or no?

1004
01:17:59,964 --> 01:18:02,554
Will you recant or will you not?

1005
01:18:13,861 --> 01:18:15,919
Since Your Majesty
and Your Lordships

1006
01:18:15,994 --> 01:18:18,893
desire a simple reply...

1007
01:18:22,195 --> 01:18:23,492
I will answer.

1008
01:18:27,527 --> 01:18:31,255
Unless I am convinced

1009
01:18:31,326 --> 01:18:33,087
by Scripture

1010
01:18:33,159 --> 01:18:35,456
and by plain reason...

1011
01:18:37,192 --> 01:18:39,023
and not by Popes and councils

1012
01:18:39,094 --> 01:18:42,115
who have so often
contradicted themselves...

1013
01:18:44,593 --> 01:18:50,421
my conscience is captive
to the word of God.

1014
01:18:50,491 --> 01:18:54,013
To go against conscience
is neither right nor safe.

1015
01:18:58,357 --> 01:18:59,552
I cannot...

1016
01:19:02,359 --> 01:19:05,551
and I will not recant.

1017
01:19:08,156 --> 01:19:09,642
Here I stand.

1018
01:19:13,356 --> 01:19:15,047
I can do no other.

1019
01:19:16,520 --> 01:19:18,887
God help me.

1020
01:19:18,956 --> 01:19:20,887
Yes, Martin!

1021
01:19:20,955 --> 01:19:23,079
The man's a heretic!
He's a prophet of God!

1022
01:19:24,522 --> 01:19:25,850
Order!

1023
01:19:38,453 --> 01:19:41,248
Young Martin walks out!

1024
01:19:41,320 --> 01:19:43,216
You have your answer!

1025
01:19:45,819 --> 01:19:46,806
Order!

1026
01:19:50,151 --> 01:19:51,616
Order!

1027
01:19:56,950 --> 01:19:57,939
Order!

1028
01:19:59,149 --> 01:20:01,741
Luther!
No, it's not that simple.

1029
01:20:01,817 --> 01:20:03,647
Luther!
...the word of God!

1030
01:20:03,718 --> 01:20:06,377
Luther! Luther!

1031
01:20:06,450 --> 01:20:08,244
God bless you, Martin!

1032
01:20:13,115 --> 01:20:14,445
Luther!

1033
01:20:14,516 --> 01:20:19,574
Luther! Luther! Luther!

1034
01:20:26,514 --> 01:20:27,911
Make way!

1035
01:20:34,579 --> 01:20:37,977
I am descended
from a line of Christian emperors.

1036
01:20:38,045 --> 01:20:40,475
You will not make a heretic of me.

1037
01:20:40,545 --> 01:20:42,976
He has condemned himself,
Excellency.

1038
01:20:43,043 --> 01:20:45,838
He must be stopped before
he infects all of Germany.

1039
01:20:49,478 --> 01:20:54,102
My lord, you gave Luther
the promise of a safe conduct.

1040
01:20:55,710 --> 01:20:57,836
Luther's not a man but a demon,

1041
01:20:57,909 --> 01:21:00,932
clothed in his religious habit,
the better to deceive us.

1042
01:21:03,009 --> 01:21:05,202
Martin Luther's your subject.

1043
01:21:06,441 --> 01:21:07,738
What do you say?

1044
01:21:07,808 --> 01:21:11,900
He is too daring for me,
my lord.

1045
01:21:13,207 --> 01:21:17,934
Although not, it seems,
for the people.

1046
01:21:20,272 --> 01:21:22,899
If anything should happen
to him on the way back...

1047
01:21:25,372 --> 01:21:26,837
so be it.

1048
01:21:34,005 --> 01:21:36,026
Thank you!

1049
01:21:38,638 --> 01:21:42,227
God bless your journey home,
Brother Martin!

1050
01:21:44,238 --> 01:21:46,794
You'll always be
in our hearts, Martin!

1051
01:21:46,871 --> 01:21:49,666
Truth will out, Brother Martin!

1052
01:21:49,736 --> 01:21:51,758
God be with you!

1053
01:22:08,134 --> 01:22:10,224
Why are they leaving us?

1054
01:22:34,232 --> 01:22:35,218
Wait.

1055
01:22:41,930 --> 01:22:42,918
Martin.

1056
01:22:51,895 --> 01:22:55,988
Martin Luther, step down
and your comrade will be spared.

1057
01:22:57,797 --> 01:22:59,259
I'm Luther.

1058
01:22:59,328 --> 01:23:00,455
Ulrick, no!

1059
01:23:04,628 --> 01:23:06,094
I am Luther.

1060
01:24:31,150 --> 01:24:32,808
Spalatin!

1061
01:24:34,916 --> 01:24:36,677
Sorry about the rough ride.

1062
01:24:37,748 --> 01:24:40,509
Prince Frederick was keen
to nab you before someone else did.

1063
01:25:01,912 --> 01:25:03,900
They may have murdered Luther.

1064
01:25:03,979 --> 01:25:06,534
but they will not stop
what we have started.

1065
01:25:06,611 --> 01:25:08,372
The holy war has just begun!

1066
01:25:08,444 --> 01:25:11,502
Any man who holds himself up
as the master of others,

1067
01:25:11,579 --> 01:25:13,839
whether he be prince,
Pope, priest, even professor,

1068
01:25:13,910 --> 01:25:17,672
must repent...
must repent or be cut down!

1069
01:25:17,743 --> 01:25:19,833
You call me Professor Carlstadt.

1070
01:25:19,909 --> 01:25:21,307
No more!

1071
01:25:22,311 --> 01:25:25,831
From this day forward,
I am Brother Andreas.

1072
01:25:25,908 --> 01:25:27,340
Yes.

1073
01:25:27,409 --> 01:25:29,567
And all of you, likewise,

1074
01:25:29,641 --> 01:25:33,368
prepare yourselves
for the great leveling!

1075
01:25:33,441 --> 01:25:35,375
Yes!

1076
01:25:39,174 --> 01:25:42,695
"Thou shalt not make unto thee
any graven image."

1077
01:25:42,773 --> 01:25:45,172
Learn to despise
props and pretensions.

1078
01:25:46,740 --> 01:25:50,261
Stand with the righteous,
or be cut down with the others.

1079
01:25:50,339 --> 01:25:52,498
There is no middle ground!

1080
01:25:52,573 --> 01:25:53,561
Teach us!

1081
01:25:56,473 --> 01:25:59,267
Martin would never have shamed
a student for wearing a crucifix!

1082
01:25:59,338 --> 01:26:01,531
I know Martin Luther.
I discovered him.

1083
01:26:01,604 --> 01:26:04,094
He said reform.
You want revolt!

1084
01:26:04,171 --> 01:26:07,002
If you haven't got the stomach to finish
what he started, Melanchthon, step aside.

1085
01:26:07,071 --> 01:26:08,797
Why are you babbling in riddles?

1086
01:26:08,870 --> 01:26:10,529
Beware, or you too
shall be cut down.

1087
01:26:10,603 --> 01:26:11,591
What?

1088
01:26:20,502 --> 01:26:22,866
I asked for a Greek New Testament.

1089
01:26:25,168 --> 01:26:27,397
I need proper books,
not this rubbish.

1090
01:26:30,269 --> 01:26:31,858
And a Greek-German dictionary.

1091
01:26:34,599 --> 01:26:35,589
Leave us.

1092
01:26:36,767 --> 01:26:38,426
And a Greek-Latin dictionary.

1093
01:26:57,765 --> 01:26:59,730
This is not the time, Martin.

1094
01:26:59,797 --> 01:27:02,319
Well, the Emperor's
going to burn me, anyway.

1095
01:27:04,296 --> 01:27:05,490
He'll burn us all.

1096
01:27:06,897 --> 01:27:08,056
This is treason.

1097
01:27:08,131 --> 01:27:10,721
To have a New Testament
in German,

1098
01:27:10,797 --> 01:27:13,887
in words ordinary people
can understand?

1099
01:27:13,963 --> 01:27:16,325
Yes!

1100
01:27:18,930 --> 01:27:21,486
It's the thing Rome fears most.

1101
01:27:22,562 --> 01:27:26,017
Well, you must blame
the Author for that.

1102
01:27:32,693 --> 01:27:34,522
The wall...
break it down!

1103
01:27:34,593 --> 01:27:36,252
Make breaches!

1104
01:27:45,458 --> 01:27:48,947
No popes! No witches!
No priests!

1105
01:27:49,025 --> 01:27:51,514
This cursed house...
pull her down!

1106
01:27:51,593 --> 01:27:53,022
Come out, you...

1107
01:27:58,224 --> 01:28:01,781
How do you expect to do this?
Just give us our rights!

1108
01:28:11,222 --> 01:28:12,848
Blasphemers!

1109
01:28:24,453 --> 01:28:26,044
We must send in soldiers.

1110
01:28:26,120 --> 01:28:28,109
And cause more bloodshed?

1111
01:28:28,186 --> 01:28:32,118
If Wittenberg cannot settle
its religious problems without that,

1112
01:28:32,186 --> 01:28:35,448
then the rest of the world
will not be impressed.

1113
01:28:37,518 --> 01:28:38,985
Send for Luther.

1114
01:28:47,584 --> 01:28:49,073
How's the work?

1115
01:28:51,351 --> 01:28:52,441
Tricky.

1116
01:28:52,517 --> 01:28:53,776
Words are like children...

1117
01:28:53,849 --> 01:28:57,283
the more care you lavish on them,
the more they demand.

1118
01:28:57,350 --> 01:28:58,872
Rather like women.

1119
01:28:58,950 --> 01:29:00,608
I wouldn't know.

1120
01:29:00,683 --> 01:29:02,478
Take this verse in Saint Luke...

1121
01:29:02,549 --> 01:29:04,606
"It is the father's will
that nothing be lost."

1122
01:29:04,682 --> 01:29:07,740
In our language, the word"will"
denotes strength, willpower,

1123
01:29:07,816 --> 01:29:09,372
bending someone to your will.

1124
01:29:10,414 --> 01:29:14,007
But in the original Greek,
this three-letter word

1125
01:29:14,081 --> 01:29:17,103
denotes passion, fire,
inner organs.

1126
01:29:17,179 --> 01:29:21,341
It can mean beloved,
desire, even sexual desire.

1127
01:29:22,914 --> 01:29:24,277
Eat your porridge.

1128
01:29:24,347 --> 01:29:25,744
You're not even listening.

1129
01:29:25,813 --> 01:29:28,472
Besides, porridge does
nothing for my bowels.

1130
01:29:30,278 --> 01:29:33,905
No, it's not the word
that's important,

1131
01:29:33,979 --> 01:29:35,943
but what it's saying about God.

1132
01:29:42,278 --> 01:29:44,108
You are too much alone here.

1133
01:29:45,944 --> 01:29:48,705
"You are too much alone here."
Oh, very good, Spalatin.

1134
01:29:48,776 --> 01:29:52,334
Two weeks since you last came.
Of course I'm too much alone!

1135
01:29:52,409 --> 01:29:55,534
How can I write for our people
when I don't live among them?

1136
01:29:57,010 --> 01:30:00,497
The language of the Bible should be
like a mother talking to her children.

1137
01:30:04,776 --> 01:30:06,207
Well, it's decided,

1138
01:30:06,276 --> 01:30:09,332
Martin Luther
must not leave this room.

1139
01:30:11,373 --> 01:30:12,772
But Knight George...

1140
01:30:13,607 --> 01:30:14,594
may.

1141
01:30:14,674 --> 01:30:17,696
It's time you saw
for yourself, Martin.

1142
01:30:21,106 --> 01:30:23,369
Why? Why were they killed?

1143
01:30:26,273 --> 01:30:27,828
No reason.

1144
01:30:27,906 --> 01:30:30,134
Just happened to be
in the wrong place,

1145
01:30:30,206 --> 01:30:33,534
got in the way of a mob of peasants
looting a monastery.

1146
01:30:33,606 --> 01:30:36,125
The whole world's
been turned upside-down

1147
01:30:36,204 --> 01:30:37,601
by that madman Luther.

1148
01:30:38,872 --> 01:30:40,961
And him saying that
every Christian has the right

1149
01:30:41,037 --> 01:30:43,196
to take what they need by force.

1150
01:30:44,537 --> 01:30:46,196
Well, Luther's gone,

1151
01:30:46,271 --> 01:30:50,293
but his damned ideas have
set the whole earth on fire.

1152
01:30:50,370 --> 01:30:53,132
Soon this country will be blazing.

1153
01:30:57,501 --> 01:31:00,696
Please! Let me go
in the name of God!

1154
01:31:11,899 --> 01:31:12,923
Help me!

1155
01:31:15,100 --> 01:31:16,157
Please stop!

1156
01:31:18,933 --> 01:31:23,423
Take off your Roman dresses
or have them burnt off!

1157
01:31:27,731 --> 01:31:30,493
Cowards! Cowards!

1158
01:31:30,565 --> 01:31:32,087
Cowards!

1159
01:31:33,963 --> 01:31:35,521
How dare you?

1160
01:31:35,597 --> 01:31:38,427
You call yourselves Christians?

1161
01:31:38,498 --> 01:31:39,962
Christians?!

1162
01:31:40,031 --> 01:31:43,018
You, why are you standing there?
Put out this fire!

1163
01:31:43,097 --> 01:31:44,586
Run! Buckets! Shovels! Run!

1164
01:31:44,665 --> 01:31:46,924
When a limb is rotten,
you must cut it off.

1165
01:31:46,997 --> 01:31:48,985
You know that as well as I.
Get out!

1166
01:31:49,061 --> 01:31:51,153
Martin, this is for you!
Let it burn!

1167
01:31:51,230 --> 01:31:54,093
Get out of Wittenberg
before I beat you out!

1168
01:31:54,162 --> 01:31:55,458
Beat me out?

1169
01:31:55,528 --> 01:31:58,790
I defended you.
I supported you.

1170
01:31:58,862 --> 01:32:01,054
I'm carrying on
just as you would have.

1171
01:32:01,129 --> 01:32:02,787
You think this is my work?

1172
01:32:03,661 --> 01:32:05,922
This is never my work!

1173
01:32:05,994 --> 01:32:07,755
No, it's the people's work!

1174
01:32:08,760 --> 01:32:10,055
The people's work!

1175
01:32:12,993 --> 01:32:14,187
It's the people's work.

1176
01:32:18,124 --> 01:32:19,522
The people's work!

1177
01:32:28,157 --> 01:32:29,522
Spalatin.

1178
01:32:34,223 --> 01:32:35,711
Are you there?

1179
01:32:38,055 --> 01:32:40,953
Now, how is he?

1180
01:32:41,023 --> 01:32:43,047
Luther's depressed, my lord.

1181
01:32:43,124 --> 01:32:44,452
Confused.

1182
01:32:46,056 --> 01:32:49,147
He feels the peasants
have twisted his language.

1183
01:32:49,221 --> 01:32:50,778
But he will join them?

1184
01:32:52,555 --> 01:32:54,645
Luther abhors violence.

1185
01:32:54,721 --> 01:32:58,017
But he's in sympathy
with their grievances?

1186
01:32:59,054 --> 01:33:02,679
It's hard to argue against
freeing people from crippling taxes

1187
01:33:02,753 --> 01:33:05,513
or the purgatory of being
born slaves all their lives.

1188
01:33:06,520 --> 01:33:09,781
You know, if Luther
were to lift one finger,

1189
01:33:09,852 --> 01:33:14,147
every peasant in Germany
would rise up behind him.

1190
01:33:14,218 --> 01:33:15,206
Maybe.

1191
01:33:17,419 --> 01:33:20,508
Luther's a theologian, my lord.

1192
01:33:20,583 --> 01:33:23,606
He fights,
but with his tongue or his pen.

1193
01:33:23,683 --> 01:33:25,342
He will not draw the sword.

1194
01:33:36,214 --> 01:33:39,010
I have finally
torn the world apart.

1195
01:33:39,081 --> 01:33:41,980
I urged the princes to action.

1196
01:33:42,047 --> 01:33:45,741
and how they have
answered my call!

1197
01:33:45,815 --> 01:33:49,712
I said these rebels
were outside God's law.

1198
01:33:49,781 --> 01:33:55,645
that nothing on earth is more
poisonous, hurtful, or devilish

1199
01:33:55,714 --> 01:33:57,304
than a rebel.

1200
01:33:57,379 --> 01:34:01,141
that they must be stopped
by every means possible.

1201
01:34:02,478 --> 01:34:05,409
And yet the blood they sled

1202
01:34:05,477 --> 01:34:08,671
is as nothing
compared to this slaughter

1203
01:34:08,745 --> 01:34:11,335
I have unleashed.

1204
01:34:42,141 --> 01:34:44,833
You don't want to
go in there, sir.

1205
01:35:18,236 --> 01:35:19,294
It's over.

1206
01:35:21,402 --> 01:35:23,993
Yes. It's over.

1207
01:35:27,735 --> 01:35:28,826
How many?

1208
01:35:32,335 --> 01:35:33,459
No one knows yet.

1209
01:35:34,666 --> 01:35:35,655
How many?

1210
01:35:37,667 --> 01:35:39,291
Some say 50,000.

1211
01:35:40,333 --> 01:35:41,526
Some 100.

1212
01:35:43,998 --> 01:35:45,488
100,000...

1213
01:35:46,999 --> 01:35:48,193
dead peasants.

1214
01:35:49,664 --> 01:35:51,688
There were knights among them.

1215
01:35:56,334 --> 01:35:59,230
That's a plague, Spalatin.

1216
01:36:00,997 --> 01:36:02,055
That's butchery.

1217
01:36:05,331 --> 01:36:06,729
Have a care, Martin.

1218
01:36:07,830 --> 01:36:10,093
You may need these butchers.

1219
01:37:05,424 --> 01:37:06,410
Grete.

1220
01:38:05,981 --> 01:38:07,971
We are seeking Dr. Luther.

1221
01:38:10,614 --> 01:38:13,775
Please. My sisters and I
escaped three days ago

1222
01:38:13,849 --> 01:38:15,576
from the convent at Nimbschen.

1223
01:38:20,115 --> 01:38:23,740
And... you still came here?

1224
01:38:23,814 --> 01:38:26,642
Because this is
where Dr. Luther lives.

1225
01:38:28,845 --> 01:38:32,437
Sir, we were smuggled out
in these herring barrels.

1226
01:38:32,511 --> 01:38:35,137
We've been two nights
on an open wagon,

1227
01:38:35,212 --> 01:38:38,200
have had no rest,
no food, no sleep.

1228
01:38:39,511 --> 01:38:40,977
So if you could just tell me...

1229
01:38:41,045 --> 01:38:42,031
I...

1230
01:38:43,678 --> 01:38:45,574
I'm Luther.

1231
01:38:47,177 --> 01:38:49,075
Katharina von Bora.

1232
01:38:49,143 --> 01:38:50,540
Martin Luther.

1233
01:38:51,542 --> 01:38:52,940
But you know that already.

1234
01:38:55,109 --> 01:38:56,904
I'll take you to a shelter.

1235
01:39:13,674 --> 01:39:14,831
Who's there?

1236
01:39:21,672 --> 01:39:22,660
No.

1237
01:39:25,870 --> 01:39:27,734
Martin Luther?

1238
01:39:27,804 --> 01:39:29,462
My lord.

1239
01:39:30,537 --> 01:39:34,435
Well. We meet at last.

1240
01:39:39,836 --> 01:39:42,528
I dedicated this work
to you, my lord.

1241
01:39:42,635 --> 01:39:44,624
The translation
of the New Testament...

1242
01:39:45,967 --> 01:39:47,525
into our own language.

1243
01:39:47,602 --> 01:39:49,227
Into German?

1244
01:39:54,101 --> 01:39:58,328
But this will
separate us from Rome...

1245
01:39:59,400 --> 01:40:00,627
forever.

1246
01:40:01,699 --> 01:40:04,791
I have always
sought Christian unity,

1247
01:40:04,868 --> 01:40:07,800
but not at the price of servitude.

1248
01:40:07,868 --> 01:40:09,493
I answer to God's law,

1249
01:40:09,568 --> 01:40:11,361
not Roman.

1250
01:40:12,433 --> 01:40:14,898
Roman law is the reality.

1251
01:40:14,966 --> 01:40:16,727
I believe in the reality of Christ.

1252
01:40:16,799 --> 01:40:18,562
With no compromises?

1253
01:40:18,634 --> 01:40:19,894
None.

1254
01:40:24,200 --> 01:40:27,097
You realize, of course,
they'll take this to be

1255
01:40:27,165 --> 01:40:29,529
an act of sheer provocation.

1256
01:40:29,599 --> 01:40:30,929
Yes.

1257
01:40:30,999 --> 01:40:33,463
And they will not hesitate
to strike back.

1258
01:40:33,532 --> 01:40:35,292
Yes, I know.

1259
01:40:38,364 --> 01:40:41,389
Well, so long as you know.

1260
01:40:45,696 --> 01:40:48,718
Do you think I could have
my present now?

1261
01:40:51,696 --> 01:40:52,821
Yes, of course.

1262
01:41:10,827 --> 01:41:14,054
Take my heart

1263
01:41:17,592 --> 01:41:21,752
And never worry

1264
01:41:23,957 --> 01:41:27,356
Evil tongues will mock

1265
01:41:27,425 --> 01:41:30,288
We'll mock in turn

1266
01:41:30,357 --> 01:41:34,790
For my heart
is my gift to thee

1267
01:41:38,091 --> 01:41:41,021
Have not a care

1268
01:41:42,989 --> 01:41:44,887
Never worry

1269
01:41:44,956 --> 01:41:46,353
Stay, Ulrick, stay.

1270
01:41:46,421 --> 01:41:47,786
Please.

1271
01:41:47,856 --> 01:41:49,650
Marry one of
these lovely young women.

1272
01:41:49,722 --> 01:41:51,517
I know there's at least one left.

1273
01:41:51,588 --> 01:41:53,384
I'll bring God's word
to my homeland.

1274
01:41:53,456 --> 01:41:55,919
No, this is not a good time.
No prince can protect you there.

1275
01:41:55,986 --> 01:41:58,180
I want the Dutch people to know

1276
01:41:58,253 --> 01:42:01,153
what I experienced when I
read His word for the first time.

1277
01:42:05,287 --> 01:42:06,547
Then God be with you.

1278
01:42:10,786 --> 01:42:12,275
And with you, Martin.

1279
01:42:18,452 --> 01:42:22,042
You left so quickly,
I feared it was my singing.

1280
01:42:22,117 --> 01:42:23,447
If only it were.

1281
01:42:24,451 --> 01:42:25,644
Look at him.

1282
01:42:25,718 --> 01:42:28,148
He goes to his fate,
hurrying like a bridegroom.

1283
01:42:28,216 --> 01:42:30,942
Not all bridegrooms
are so fleet.

1284
01:42:33,217 --> 01:42:36,148
I would not say the bachelors
of Wittenberg have been tardy.

1285
01:42:36,216 --> 01:42:37,204
True.

1286
01:42:37,282 --> 01:42:39,840
The other nuns are all spoken for.

1287
01:42:39,915 --> 01:42:41,573
And you've made it so clear
that marriage

1288
01:42:41,647 --> 01:42:43,114
is an honorable estate...

1289
01:42:43,182 --> 01:42:45,114
for everyone else, at least.

1290
01:42:45,182 --> 01:42:48,806
I see why you scare them.
My grief is that I scare you.

1291
01:42:48,880 --> 01:42:50,402
I know you like me, Doctor.

1292
01:42:50,480 --> 01:42:52,641
I feel your heart
when we make music together.

1293
01:42:52,715 --> 01:42:54,975
But when the music ends,
you flee.

1294
01:42:57,379 --> 01:43:00,540
I'm a man of blood, Katie.
I divide people.

1295
01:43:01,546 --> 01:43:03,943
Thousands have died
because of me.

1296
01:43:04,011 --> 01:43:07,205
Most days I'm so depressed
I can't even get out of bed.

1297
01:43:09,745 --> 01:43:12,176
People try to make me
a fixed star.

1298
01:43:13,878 --> 01:43:15,002
But I'm not.

1299
01:43:16,711 --> 01:43:18,175
I'm a wandering planet.

1300
01:43:19,211 --> 01:43:20,937
No one should
look to me for guidance.

1301
01:43:27,209 --> 01:43:29,266
Two things I promise you...

1302
01:43:29,343 --> 01:43:31,833
we will make
joyous music together,

1303
01:43:31,910 --> 01:43:33,670
and to get to you,

1304
01:43:33,741 --> 01:43:36,435
your enemies will have to
step across my dead body.

1305
01:43:37,807 --> 01:43:40,433
In return,
I ask only one thing...

1306
01:43:40,506 --> 01:43:44,338
that you bring none of them
to our marriage bed,

1307
01:43:44,408 --> 01:43:47,703
not peasants or princes or Popes,

1308
01:43:47,773 --> 01:43:50,568
unless He be a God of love.

1309
01:44:09,470 --> 01:44:11,402
For God's sake,
at least get new candles!

1310
01:44:11,470 --> 01:44:13,560
There's nothing left except these.
Now!

1311
01:44:25,135 --> 01:44:27,895
So much for Leo
who would rebuild Rome...

1312
01:44:29,402 --> 01:44:33,231
Bankrupt.
800.000 ducats in debt.

1313
01:44:34,567 --> 01:44:37,227
Had he lived. He would lave
sold the Vatican itself.

1314
01:44:38,602 --> 01:44:41,828
But as a Pope,
he could have changed the world.

1315
01:44:43,068 --> 01:44:46,998
He could have reformed the church
instead of just rebuilding it.

1316
01:44:48,566 --> 01:44:52,658
Leo was a spiritual dwarf
when we needed a giant like Luther.

1317
01:44:52,731 --> 01:44:54,322
Well, Luther's getting married.

1318
01:44:58,399 --> 01:44:59,988
To a runaway nun.

1319
01:45:04,732 --> 01:45:06,559
He wouldn't dare.

1320
01:45:22,961 --> 01:45:24,394
If I were to tell you that

1321
01:45:24,463 --> 01:45:26,689
Albert of Mainz sent us
a wedding present.

1322
01:45:26,761 --> 01:45:28,251
what would you say?

1323
01:45:28,328 --> 01:45:29,418
Send it back.

1324
01:45:29,495 --> 01:45:31,791
Then it's as well
he did no such thing,

1325
01:45:31,861 --> 01:45:33,882
or we'd be having
our first quarrel.

1326
01:45:38,661 --> 01:45:40,353
Martin.

1327
01:45:50,759 --> 01:45:53,621
They are going to burn Ulrick!
They caught him at the border.

1328
01:46:20,490 --> 01:46:22,248
What is it?
What has happened?

1329
01:46:22,321 --> 01:46:24,251
The Emperor summons
our princes to Augsburg.

1330
01:46:24,319 --> 01:46:25,480
Why?

1331
01:46:25,554 --> 01:46:28,042
To finish
what he began at Worms.

1332
01:46:28,120 --> 01:46:30,779
You mustn't go.
They'll fry you like a suckling pig.

1333
01:46:30,853 --> 01:46:33,046
If you die, everything
you stand for dies with you.

1334
01:46:33,120 --> 01:46:35,846
All right, what will you say? How will you
make them change their minds?

1335
01:46:35,919 --> 01:46:38,544
I don't know.
Well, I need to know!

1336
01:46:38,619 --> 01:46:40,481
Katie, first they
wanted me to recant.

1337
01:46:40,551 --> 01:46:43,178
Now they want half of Europe
to bow the knee.

1338
01:46:43,252 --> 01:46:44,377
We must fight!

1339
01:46:45,585 --> 01:46:47,379
Let somebody else fight.

1340
01:46:47,451 --> 01:46:51,144
Let somebody else be
roasted like a pig!

1341
01:47:08,416 --> 01:47:10,574
All I want is Luther.

1342
01:47:10,648 --> 01:47:13,375
Break the princes,
and you break Luther.

1343
01:47:14,447 --> 01:47:17,437
Their tactics will be to delay,

1344
01:47:17,514 --> 01:47:20,002
to bog the process down in detail.

1345
01:47:21,913 --> 01:47:23,243
Luther's hymns.

1346
01:47:25,579 --> 01:47:26,771
They are.

1347
01:47:28,013 --> 01:47:30,376
You must keep the issues
simple, Excellency.

1348
01:47:31,512 --> 01:47:33,410
They must accept
there is only one church.

1349
01:47:38,179 --> 01:47:40,803
This plague
just goes on spreading.

1350
01:47:43,344 --> 01:47:44,707
I should have burned him!

1351
01:47:54,844 --> 01:47:57,898
My princes. Brothers in Christ.

1352
01:47:57,976 --> 01:48:00,135
this isn't a time for caution.

1353
01:48:00,208 --> 01:48:02,333
but for boldness.

1354
01:48:02,409 --> 01:48:06,034
Charles is not the frightened youth
you saw at Worms, Dr. Luther.

1355
01:48:06,108 --> 01:48:08,799
He has humbled France
and sacked Rome itself.

1356
01:48:08,874 --> 01:48:10,863
Only the Turk
remains a threat to him.

1357
01:48:10,940 --> 01:48:14,427
In a word, he has all the time
and resource in the world

1358
01:48:14,506 --> 01:48:16,439
to reduce us to a powder
piece by piece,

1359
01:48:16,507 --> 01:48:18,438
state by state.

1360
01:48:18,506 --> 01:48:21,496
And I think he means to do it.

1361
01:48:24,005 --> 01:48:25,131
My lords...

1362
01:48:26,838 --> 01:48:29,201
silence will not save us.

1363
01:48:29,271 --> 01:48:31,600
If we challenge Charles,

1364
01:48:31,671 --> 01:48:33,467
will there be war...

1365
01:48:35,036 --> 01:48:37,265
the awful shedding
of yet more blood?

1366
01:48:37,336 --> 01:48:40,792
I honestly don't know. I've mislaid
all my former certainties.

1367
01:48:40,871 --> 01:48:42,460
But think.

1368
01:48:45,336 --> 01:48:48,665
The Emperor invites us
to present our creeds,

1369
01:48:48,736 --> 01:48:51,566
to present what we believe in.

1370
01:48:51,636 --> 01:48:54,624
Satan invites us to preach in hell.

1371
01:48:55,634 --> 01:48:57,100
Is that a trap?

1372
01:49:00,502 --> 01:49:03,524
Or our greatest opportunity so far?

1373
01:49:04,601 --> 01:49:07,998
And remember, since I may not
come with you to Augsburg,

1374
01:49:08,067 --> 01:49:11,000
you'll face Charles' wroth alone.

1375
01:49:18,999 --> 01:49:20,430
Your choice is simple.

1376
01:49:21,867 --> 01:49:25,094
If you give in, my lords,
the bright comet that is our faith

1377
01:49:25,164 --> 01:49:29,755
will shatter and be reduced
to a few isolated torches,

1378
01:49:29,830 --> 01:49:32,694
sputtering in a dark universe.

1379
01:49:38,732 --> 01:49:40,127
This way!

1380
01:50:02,127 --> 01:50:05,751
And why does the father run
to meet his prodigal son?

1381
01:50:06,759 --> 01:50:08,351
Landowners don't run.

1382
01:50:08,526 --> 01:50:10,254
Noblemen don't run.

1383
01:50:10,428 --> 01:50:11,857
Princes don't run.

1384
01:50:12,860 --> 01:50:17,154
So why does this rich,
landowning father run?

1385
01:50:20,393 --> 01:50:22,517
Because he's afraid.

1386
01:50:22,592 --> 01:50:26,889
He's so afraid that his son
will run back to the filthy pig farm.

1387
01:50:26,958 --> 01:50:30,514
He runs
because he loves his son.

1388
01:50:30,591 --> 01:50:34,851
And there's
a special word for this love.

1389
01:50:36,524 --> 01:50:37,511
Compassion.

1390
01:50:38,523 --> 01:50:40,112
Compassion.

1391
01:50:40,189 --> 01:50:43,383
And you know
what this word means?

1392
01:50:46,023 --> 01:50:48,012
It's just a church bell, Martin,

1393
01:50:48,088 --> 01:50:49,679
ringing the Angelus.

1394
01:50:54,655 --> 01:50:56,451
Continue the story.

1395
01:51:17,052 --> 01:51:19,882
Beloved princes of the Empire,

1396
01:51:19,951 --> 01:51:22,781
I will be brief
and to the point.

1397
01:51:22,850 --> 01:51:25,577
Your ministers
shall not preach,

1398
01:51:25,650 --> 01:51:28,344
and you will outlaw these Bibles
in the common language

1399
01:51:28,418 --> 01:51:33,347
and declare anyone who possesses one
an enemy of the state.

1400
01:51:42,548 --> 01:51:45,242
We will not stop our ministers
from preaching the word,

1401
01:51:45,315 --> 01:51:47,372
here or anywhere else.

1402
01:51:47,446 --> 01:51:49,606
Do not concede, my lord.

1403
01:51:53,180 --> 01:51:56,340
We will not outlaw
the new Bible, my lord.

1404
01:51:57,580 --> 01:51:59,545
As a sign
of your loyalty to me,

1405
01:51:59,611 --> 01:52:01,602
tomorrow you shall all march

1406
01:52:01,679 --> 01:52:04,110
in the Corpus Christi procession
to the cathedral

1407
01:52:04,178 --> 01:52:08,871
and worship, all of you,
in the Roman manner.

1408
01:52:20,910 --> 01:52:23,673
We will not, my lord.

1409
01:52:23,745 --> 01:52:24,730
You will!

1410
01:52:25,743 --> 01:52:28,333
Or you shall know my sword.

1411
01:52:28,408 --> 01:52:30,998
Before I let anyone
take from me the word of God

1412
01:52:31,074 --> 01:52:33,699
and ask me to deny my belief,

1413
01:52:33,775 --> 01:52:39,504
I will kneel
and let him strike off my head.

1414
01:53:24,336 --> 01:53:29,357
Your Highness, we have drawn up
a confession of our faith

1415
01:53:29,434 --> 01:53:32,299
which I believe
you will find blameless.

1416
01:54:09,098 --> 01:54:11,495
I am so very happy
to have been loved by you...

1417
01:54:12,763 --> 01:54:14,059
Katharina von Bora.

1418
01:54:24,729 --> 01:54:27,661
Martin! Martin

1419
01:54:27,729 --> 01:54:30,287
We did it, Martin

1420
01:54:30,363 --> 01:54:31,621
We did it

1421
01:54:31,694 --> 01:54:35,251
The Emperor allowed us to read
our confession of faith

1422
01:54:35,327 --> 01:54:38,155
The princes stood up to him

1423
01:54:39,225 --> 01:54:40,624
He had to listen

1424
01:54:40,693 --> 01:54:43,489
They can't stop us now,
Martin!

1425
01:55:04,648 --> 01:55:07,989
What happened in
Augsburg opened the door

1426
01:55:08,089 --> 01:55:11,431
to religious freedom
and changed the world.

1427
01:55:11,808 --> 01:55:19,786
Martin Luther lived, preached
and taught God's word another 16 years.

1428
01:55:20,163 --> 01:55:24,561
He and Katharina von Bora were
happily married and had six children.

1429
01:55:24,938 --> 01:55:34,109
His Bible translation laid the
foundations for a common German language.

1430
01:55:34,486 --> 01:55:40,215
Today about 540 million
people celebrate the Mass

1431
01:55:40,315 --> 01:55:46,044
according to the
form developed by Luther.