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Help me! Don't let me die
like a dog on this road!

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Don't let me die!

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I'll become a monk!
I'll become a monk!

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I'll give myself to God!
I'll give myself to God!

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I'll give myself to You!
I'll give myself to You!

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Just spare me! Spare me!

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Just help me!

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Your father's here.

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He's brought
the whole family.

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He's leaving.

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Father, please stay for supper!
Father!

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Your first Mass,
and you crap yourself!

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I hoped we could talk.

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We scraped to send you
to the law,

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to elevate you
to a noble profession.

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I sweat in the mines for 20 years

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to give you the chance
I never had!

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Is that how you
interpret the commandment

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to honor your father and mother?

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- God brought me here.
- God?

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A shaft of lightning
burns your arse,

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and you call that God?

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The devil, more like!

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Father!

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Shut up! Shut up!
Leave me alone!

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Satan, stifle your lying tongue!

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I never claimed to be good!
Never!

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They know my faults here...
my pride, my cursed lust!

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I confess them all!
I confess them all!

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Just leave me!
Just leave me!

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Just leave me!
Please leave me!

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You're too hard on yourself,
Brother Martin.

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Arguing with the devil
never does any of us any good.

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He has had 5,000 years
of practice.

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He knows all the weak spots.

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I'm sorry about today.

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I'm not here to scold you, Martin.

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I'm too full of sin
to be a priest.

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You know, in two years

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I've never heard you confess
anything remotely interesting.

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I live in terror of judgment.

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And you think
self-hatred will save you?

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Have you ever dared to think
that God is not just?

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He has us born tainted by sin,

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then He's angry with us
all our lives for our faults,

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this righteous Judge...

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who damns us...

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threatening us
with the fires of hell!

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I know! I know
I'm evil to think it!

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You're not evil.

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You're just not honest.

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God isn't angry with you.

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You are angry with God.

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I wish there were no God.

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Martin, what is it you seek?

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A merciful God!

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A God whom I can love.

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A God who loves me.

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Then look to Christ.

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Bind yourself to Christ

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and you will know God's love.

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Say to Him,
"I'm yours. Save me."

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"I am yours. Save me."

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I am yours. Save me.

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I am yours. Save me.

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The brothers
are not happy with your decision.

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They think there are
others in our cloister

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better suited to deliver
your letters to Rome.

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Martin has two degrees
and an aptitude for law.

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It will be
a legal brief he carries.

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Besides, it will do him good
to be out in the world.

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We need your teaching, brother!

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Try some wine.

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Let go of me!
Let me go!

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You listen, you little thief!

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Keep going.
It's none of your business.

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Keep going, for your good.

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Hey, you look lonely, brother.

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Alms for a blind man!

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- Come on, come inside.
- No.

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Statues of all
your favorite saints.

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Saint Cecilia for sore throats,

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Saint Paul for bad backs
and swollen feet, brother.

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Saint Joe for chapped hands,
the Virgin...

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Pope Julius is coming!

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Get down!

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- Down!
- The Pope is here!

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- It's the Holy Father!
- Clear the streets!

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Make way for the Pope!
Make way for the Pope!

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This way
for Saint John the Baptist's head!

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Move along.

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Move along, there.
Move along from the Baptist's head.

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Give generously!

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Good enough, brother.

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Fast or slow,
you'll get your 500 years.

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Enough!

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Name of the deceased
and relation?

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Hendrick Luther.

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Grandfather.

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An Our Father
on every step.

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When you reach the top of the stairs,

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Hendrick will be released from Purgatory
and into the gates of Heaven.

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Name of the deceased
and relation?

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Wolfram Eschen, uncle.

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An Our Father on every step.

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When you reach the top of the stairs,

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Wolfram will be released from Purgatory
and into the gates of Heaven.

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You are back from Rome
almost two weeks.

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Two weeks, and scarcely alert,
even in the confessional.

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As your father in Christ,
I order you to speak.

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Rome is a circus...

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a running sewer.

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You can buy anything...
sex, salvation.

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They have brothels
just for clerics.

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As they probably do
in Leipzig.

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One church had the coins
for which Judas sold our Lord.

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100 years off Purgatory
for kissing each one.

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And you think Rome unique
in such relics?

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There are even rumors
about the Holy Father himself,

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that he has a lust for power!

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Let's go outside.

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What's wrong with here?

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Well, this floor... the color.

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I like color, but you give
your brothers a hard choice...

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they either learn
to scrub like you,

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or find a way to make your patch
a little less sparkling.

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Gently,

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like milking a cow.

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The ancients
reverenced their bees.

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They valued them
more than slaves.

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Have you ever read
the New Testament, Martin?

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No, Father.

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Not many have,
but in Wittenberg you will.

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Wittenberg?

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A doctorate in theology.

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You're sending me away
to study?

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I'm sending you to the source...

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the Scriptures.

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Christ Himself.

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Here I'm losing my faith,

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feeling like a fool even to pray,
and you're sending me away?

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- You'll preach.
- I'd be a fraud as a preacher!

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We preach best
what we need to learn most.

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Do not send me away from you.

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God gave you gifts for a purpose.

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In Wittenberg, you will be
able to change minds, open eyes.

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That's what you want,
isn't it?

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To change things?

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Welcome to Wittenberg,
Father Martin.

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I am Ulrick Wender.
I'll be helping you in the parish.

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Gunter and I have caught some fish
for your first meal among us.

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Wender. That's a Dutch name.

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I was born in Utrecht.

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We have to stop for Hanna.

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She's a little... well, she keeps
a child hidden in the forest.

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A child living in the forest?

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A crippled child.

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If we don't buy the wood,
the little thing doesn't get fed.

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Wood, brother?

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Half or full bundle?

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As much as this will buy.

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This is our new priest,
Father Martin.

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Hello, Hanna.

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Thank you, Hanna.

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Otto!

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Good morning, Otto!

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This is our new preacher,
Father Martin.

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Father.

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I look forward
to seeing you at Mass.

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Good luck, there.

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Get back to your work, Thomas!

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You'd think I was a leper.

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They thought you were
coming for a collection.

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They thought I wanted their money?

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No, they thought the Pope
wanted their money.

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Every time
a new priest comes,

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they have to pay Rome
for the privilege of sacraments.

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Nulla salus extra ecclesiam.

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This debate has raged
for over 1,400 years,

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from the earliest days
of the church,

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but now
the Fifth Lateran Council

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has reaffirmed
Saint Cyprian's famous dictum,

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"Nulla salus extra ecclesiam...

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outside the Holy Roman church,
there is no salvation."

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Professor Carlstadt.

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What of the Greek Christians?

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The Greek Christians?

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Well, an early church document
clearly states

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that a Roman bishop,
not a Greek,

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was Saint Peter's successor.

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And, of course,

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it was Peter whom our Lord Christ
made His representative on earth.

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So we must consider the saints
of the Greek church to be damned?

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You miss the point.

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But that is the inevitable
consequence of Cyprian's claim...

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Greek Christians
are outside salvation.

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Or is this claim based on
an over-literal reading

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of Matthew 16:18...

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"Thou art Peter, and upon this rock,
I will build my church."

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Yet two lines earlier,
in verse 16,

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we find the very foundation
of our faith...

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"You are the Christ,
the Son of the living God."

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Surely the more universal
we make these great words,

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the nearer we come
to the mind of Christ.

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You question the authority
of the church council, sir?

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Not at all.

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Though in 1215,
the Fourth Lateran Council

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allowed that Cyprian
could be wrong

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and salvation
could exist outside the church...

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though not outside Christ.

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Thomas! Thomas!

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00:18:51,526 --> 00:18:54,151
Why would he do such a thing?

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00:19:03,068 --> 00:19:06,401
If only we knew
what was in his head.

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00:19:06,443 --> 00:19:09,735
What does God say, Father,
for suicide?

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I never, never said
I had the answers.

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I defy you, devil! You...

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I know your handiwork!
You and your stinking lies!

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Shaming... shaming...
shaming a mother,

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telling her
to hide her broken child,

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telling her boy to kill himself!

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Brother Martin, the boy's damned!
I'm not allowed to do this!

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The others won't rest
with him in here!

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This is holy ground!
He's a suicide!

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Tell Otto to bring his son!
Tell him!

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00:19:48,901 --> 00:19:51,735
Some people say that
according to God's justice,

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this boy is damned
because he took his life.

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I say it was overcome
by the devil.

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Is this child
any more to blame

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for the despair that overtook him

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than an innocent man who is
murdered by a robber in the woods?

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God must be mercy.

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God is mercy.

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He is yours. Save him.

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Terrible. Unforgiving.
That's how I saw God.

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Punishing us in this life,

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committing us to Purgatory
after death,

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sentencing sinners to burn in hell
for all eternity.

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But I was wrong.

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Those who see God as angry...

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do not see Him rightly...

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but look upon a curtain
as if a dark storm cloud

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has been drawn across His face.

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If we truly believe
that Christ is our Savior...

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then we have a God of love,

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and to see God in faith

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is to look upon
His friendly heart.

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So when the devil throws
your sins in your face

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and declares that you deserve
death and hell, tell him this...

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"I admit that I deserve
death and hell. What of it?

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"For I know One who suffered
and made satisfaction in my behalf.

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"His name is Jesus Christ,
Son of God.

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Where He is,
there I shall be also."

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Prince Frederick wants him silenced.

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00:23:04,443 --> 00:23:07,484
You should have stopped him,
Carlstadt. Forbidden him.

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Forbidden him, Spalatin?

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To teach theology?

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He undermines the prince.

258
00:23:13,193 --> 00:23:15,984
Come on, there is no
clear teaching on relics.

259
00:23:16,026 --> 00:23:17,234
When I became a monk,

260
00:23:17,234 --> 00:23:20,276
I believed the monk's cowl
would make me holy.

261
00:23:20,318 --> 00:23:23,193
Was I an arrogant fool?

262
00:23:24,026 --> 00:23:27,651
Now they have made me
a doctor of divinity,

263
00:23:27,693 --> 00:23:31,318
and I'm tempted to believe
that this scholar's robe

264
00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:32,901
will make me wise.

265
00:23:32,984 --> 00:23:37,151
Well, God once spoke
through the mouth of an ass.

266
00:23:37,984 --> 00:23:40,526
Perhaps he's about to
do so again.

267
00:23:40,568 --> 00:23:43,068
But I'll tell you straight
what I think.

268
00:23:46,401 --> 00:23:48,068
Who here has been to Rome?

269
00:23:49,234 --> 00:23:51,734
Did you buy an indulgence?

270
00:23:51,776 --> 00:23:53,068
No.

271
00:23:53,068 --> 00:23:54,568
I did.

272
00:23:56,401 --> 00:24:00,068
For a silver florin, I freed
my grandfather from Purgatory.

273
00:24:03,818 --> 00:24:07,484
For twice that, I could have sprung
grandma and Uncle Marcus too,

274
00:24:07,484 --> 00:24:10,568
but I didn't have the funds,
so they had to stay in the hot place.

275
00:24:10,609 --> 00:24:12,651
As for myself,
the priests assured me

276
00:24:12,693 --> 00:24:14,984
that by gazing at sacred relics,

277
00:24:15,026 --> 00:24:17,234
I could cut down
my time in Purgatory.

278
00:24:17,234 --> 00:24:20,068
Luckily for me, Rome had
enough nails from the Holy Cross

279
00:24:20,109 --> 00:24:22,568
to shoe every horse in Saxony.

280
00:24:23,484 --> 00:24:27,734
But there are relics
elsewhere in Christendom.

281
00:24:27,776 --> 00:24:31,943
Eighteen out of twelve apostles
are buried in Spain.

282
00:24:32,776 --> 00:24:34,734
And yet here in Wittenberg,

283
00:24:34,734 --> 00:24:37,484
we have the pick of the crop...

284
00:24:37,484 --> 00:24:39,609
bread from the Last Supper,

285
00:24:39,651 --> 00:24:41,609
milk from the Virgin's breast,

286
00:24:41,651 --> 00:24:44,984
a thorn that pierced
Christ's brow on Calvary,

287
00:24:44,984 --> 00:24:48,276
and 19,000 other bits
of sacred bone,

288
00:24:48,318 --> 00:24:51,526
all authenticated sacred relics.

289
00:24:51,568 --> 00:24:53,068
Even John Tetzel himself...

290
00:24:55,068 --> 00:24:58,568
Inquisitor of Poland and Saxony,

291
00:24:58,609 --> 00:25:03,068
seller of indulgences
extraordinary,

292
00:25:03,109 --> 00:25:07,568
connoisseur of relics,
envies our collection!

293
00:25:07,609 --> 00:25:10,568
To possess them
for a single night,

294
00:25:10,568 --> 00:25:15,484
he would willingly surrender
five years of his earthly life!

295
00:25:21,401 --> 00:25:24,151
Or 500 years in Purgatory.

296
00:25:29,443 --> 00:25:33,068
And now, good citizens
of Wittenberg,

297
00:25:33,068 --> 00:25:37,901
Prince Frederick of Saxony
invites you here to his courtyard

298
00:25:37,901 --> 00:25:41,068
to witness a mystery play

299
00:25:41,109 --> 00:25:45,901
on that ever most popular
of subjects...

300
00:25:45,942 --> 00:25:49,734
the Day of Judgment.

301
00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:04,234
Just like old times, Martin.

302
00:26:06,651 --> 00:26:08,317
Excellency.

303
00:26:10,067 --> 00:26:10,984
Secretary.

304
00:26:11,109 --> 00:26:12,942
Prince's secretary.

305
00:26:12,984 --> 00:26:16,609
Such secretaries have a habit
of becoming Excellencies.

306
00:26:16,651 --> 00:26:20,484
Even when we were law students,
I had you marked for great things.

307
00:26:20,526 --> 00:26:23,692
I was hoping you may be
of some help in that regard.

308
00:26:23,734 --> 00:26:26,817
Prince Frederick is
exceedingly proud of his relics.

309
00:26:27,984 --> 00:26:30,484
Then I'm sorry
he didn't hear my lecture.

310
00:26:30,526 --> 00:26:32,567
Perhaps I could have swayed him.

311
00:26:33,609 --> 00:26:35,692
He spent 20 years
and a large fortune

312
00:26:35,734 --> 00:26:37,234
building his collection,

313
00:26:37,234 --> 00:26:39,651
that in a week's time,
on All Saints' Day,

314
00:26:39,692 --> 00:26:42,067
thousands of faithful Christians
are coming to see.

315
00:26:42,067 --> 00:26:44,109
Paying to see.

316
00:26:44,151 --> 00:26:46,817
Contributions are
customary for indulgences,

317
00:26:46,859 --> 00:26:49,026
along with confession

318
00:26:49,067 --> 00:26:51,234
and true penitence.

319
00:26:53,817 --> 00:26:55,567
Ah, yes.

320
00:26:55,692 --> 00:26:57,234
The right prayers,
the right coins,

321
00:26:57,234 --> 00:27:04,317
and 1,900,202 years
and 27 days less in Purgatory.

322
00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:07,234
Do not bite the hand
that feeds you, Martin.

323
00:27:07,234 --> 00:27:11,526
Our prince pays
for your chair in this university.

324
00:27:12,901 --> 00:27:14,734
His relics pay for your chair.

325
00:27:18,067 --> 00:27:20,067
And he who pays the piper...

326
00:27:21,734 --> 00:27:23,359
calls the tune.

327
00:27:23,401 --> 00:27:25,567
Do not embarrass him.

328
00:27:25,567 --> 00:27:29,651
No one is more delighted
with your popularity here.

329
00:27:33,067 --> 00:27:35,901
He'd prefer you stay.

330
00:27:47,651 --> 00:27:49,234
Master Kranauer,

331
00:27:49,317 --> 00:27:53,317
is Luther open to persuasion?

332
00:27:54,151 --> 00:27:56,942
Not likely, my prince.
He's as bitable as...

333
00:27:56,984 --> 00:27:58,609
As a donkey,
you were going to say?

334
00:27:58,651 --> 00:27:59,734
Indeed, indeed.

335
00:28:03,901 --> 00:28:08,901
I am conscious of the great honor
you do me, Cardinal Cajetan,

336
00:28:08,942 --> 00:28:11,067
in recommending me
to His Holiness.

337
00:28:11,109 --> 00:28:14,317
I doubt you'll think it an honor
20 years from now, Aleander.

338
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:17,567
My first master
was Pope Alexander VI.

339
00:28:18,817 --> 00:28:21,401
Three mistresses,
five children,

340
00:28:21,401 --> 00:28:26,401
and a most fervent devotion
to bullfighting.

341
00:28:26,442 --> 00:28:28,276
Pope Julius II...

342
00:28:28,317 --> 00:28:31,734
a month ago, he was
spiritual leader of the whole world.

343
00:28:31,776 --> 00:28:33,401
Quite dignified-looking, isn't he?

344
00:28:34,442 --> 00:28:35,984
But it's not
what Julius wanted.

345
00:28:36,109 --> 00:28:38,776
He wanted to be
remembered as a warrior,

346
00:28:38,817 --> 00:28:41,109
sitting on his horse,
sword in hand,

347
00:28:41,151 --> 00:28:43,401
besieging the Venetians.

348
00:28:46,317 --> 00:28:48,317
What is it you seek, Aleander?

349
00:28:49,151 --> 00:28:50,401
To serve God.

350
00:28:52,359 --> 00:28:55,026
To serve him with all my heart.

351
00:28:55,067 --> 00:28:57,651
And that is
how you will be tempted.

352
00:29:54,859 --> 00:29:58,317
Pope Leo X,
sovereign bishop of Rome,

353
00:29:58,317 --> 00:29:59,817
successor to Saint Peter

354
00:29:59,859 --> 00:30:02,900
and holy head
of the Roman Catholic church.

355
00:30:03,817 --> 00:30:06,942
I've been longing for
someone to save Christendom.

356
00:30:10,692 --> 00:30:12,775
Let us pray he's come.

357
00:30:15,692 --> 00:30:18,317
Your reputation
precedes you, Aleander.

358
00:30:19,234 --> 00:30:20,692
Then I am fearful.

359
00:30:21,734 --> 00:30:24,275
Cardinal Cajetan says
you're a brilliant scholar,

360
00:30:24,317 --> 00:30:26,817
yet possess
a fervent desire to serve.

361
00:30:26,859 --> 00:30:29,442
I have need of such gifts.

362
00:30:29,484 --> 00:30:31,484
Excellency.

363
00:30:31,525 --> 00:30:35,150
Albert of Brandenburg wants
to be Archbishop of Mainz.

364
00:30:35,192 --> 00:30:39,317
He's already archbishop
of two German territories.

365
00:30:39,359 --> 00:30:40,275
Correct.

366
00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:43,150
Then canon law disqualifies him
from holding a third.

367
00:30:43,192 --> 00:30:48,734
Moreover, wasn't he underage
when granted his first post?

368
00:30:48,734 --> 00:30:49,859
Just so.

369
00:30:50,984 --> 00:30:52,734
Even as I myself was.

370
00:30:52,775 --> 00:30:55,900
Doubtless Cajetan has informed you

371
00:30:55,942 --> 00:30:58,900
that I was made cardinal
at the age of 13.

372
00:30:58,900 --> 00:31:02,484
Albert's ambition
could still serve God's glory.

373
00:31:02,484 --> 00:31:04,025
The Turks at the gates of Vienna.

374
00:31:04,984 --> 00:31:06,900
The French are
yapping at my heels,

375
00:31:06,942 --> 00:31:09,567
and Rome itself has
become an open sewer

376
00:31:09,567 --> 00:31:12,109
filled with wild dogs
and cats by day

377
00:31:12,150 --> 00:31:14,650
and brigands
and fornicators by night.

378
00:31:17,234 --> 00:31:19,650
And this new
Basilica of Saint Peter's,

379
00:31:19,692 --> 00:31:22,525
it's not just a building,
Aleander,

380
00:31:22,567 --> 00:31:27,234
it's a symbol of my intent
to restore Christ's church.

381
00:31:29,984 --> 00:31:32,775
And Albert could be
a minor blessing in that.

382
00:31:33,900 --> 00:31:36,317
He offers 10,000 ducats
for Mainz.

383
00:31:37,234 --> 00:31:39,150
But Albert is bankrupt.

384
00:31:39,150 --> 00:31:40,984
You're well-informed.

385
00:31:42,567 --> 00:31:44,984
The Fuggers will
lend him the money.

386
00:31:44,984 --> 00:31:46,942
The imperial bankers?

387
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:49,942
An eight-year loan.

388
00:31:49,984 --> 00:31:52,650
And how
would he repay them?

389
00:31:56,650 --> 00:31:58,067
John Tetzel.

390
00:32:00,484 --> 00:32:03,900
There, that's him!
Father John Tetzel!

391
00:32:06,109 --> 00:32:10,067
Don't unfurl the banners
until the fire ignites.

392
00:32:10,109 --> 00:32:13,400
Everything has been prepared
exactly as you instructed.

393
00:32:23,067 --> 00:32:24,859
Welcome, Father Tetzel!

394
00:32:25,900 --> 00:32:27,150
Come on, people!

395
00:32:33,817 --> 00:32:34,859
Gather round!

396
00:32:52,775 --> 00:32:54,442
Good people of Juterbog...

397
00:32:55,567 --> 00:32:58,483
have you ever burned
your hand in the fire?

398
00:32:59,317 --> 00:33:01,317
Even one finger
made raw by the flame

399
00:33:01,358 --> 00:33:03,400
will torment you
throughout the night.

400
00:33:03,442 --> 00:33:04,567
Is it not so?

401
00:33:04,650 --> 00:33:06,400
Yes!

402
00:33:22,483 --> 00:33:28,192
Imagine, then,
your entire body burning.

403
00:33:28,233 --> 00:33:29,858
Not for one sleepless night...

404
00:33:30,817 --> 00:33:32,900
not for a week,

405
00:33:32,900 --> 00:33:34,817
but for all eternity!

406
00:33:34,858 --> 00:33:38,608
Are we to be spared
the fires of damnation

407
00:33:38,650 --> 00:33:40,150
on the Judgment Day?

408
00:33:48,483 --> 00:33:54,233
Tonight, your Pope,
the vicar of Christ, sends you a gift,

409
00:33:54,275 --> 00:33:57,567
a gift to save you
from such fires,

410
00:33:57,608 --> 00:34:00,775
a special indulgence granted

411
00:34:00,817 --> 00:34:03,817
for the building
of Saint Peter's Church in Rome...

412
00:34:05,692 --> 00:34:09,567
where the bones
of the apostles lie moldering,

413
00:34:09,567 --> 00:34:12,275
exposed to wind and rain,

414
00:34:12,317 --> 00:34:14,817
desecrated by wild animals.

415
00:34:14,858 --> 00:34:19,650
Take heed the words
of your Holy Father who says,

416
00:34:19,692 --> 00:34:22,525
"Lay a stone for Saint Peter's,

417
00:34:22,567 --> 00:34:26,733
"and you lay the foundation
for your own salvation

418
00:34:26,775 --> 00:34:28,192
and happiness in heaven."

419
00:34:28,317 --> 00:34:32,483
How? With this indulgence.

420
00:34:32,483 --> 00:34:35,067
When? Tonight,

421
00:34:35,108 --> 00:34:37,525
and only tonight.

422
00:34:37,567 --> 00:34:40,108
Seek the Lord while he is near.

423
00:34:40,150 --> 00:34:42,650
Here is your raft.

424
00:34:42,692 --> 00:34:44,567
Take hold!

425
00:35:05,275 --> 00:35:08,817
In Heaven, there is
a treasure chest filled with merit.

426
00:35:10,067 --> 00:35:12,733
Merit from Christ Jesus,

427
00:35:12,775 --> 00:35:15,233
the Virgin Mary, and the saints,

428
00:35:15,233 --> 00:35:17,650
who, through their holy lives,

429
00:35:17,650 --> 00:35:22,775
have merit to spare
for us poor sinners in need.

430
00:35:24,317 --> 00:35:27,067
Tonight, that treasury
is open to you.

431
00:35:29,317 --> 00:35:31,650
Do you not hear their voices,

432
00:35:31,650 --> 00:35:33,900
the screaming voices?

433
00:35:35,483 --> 00:35:37,483
Your deceased parents.

434
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:39,567
Grandparents.

435
00:35:40,483 --> 00:35:44,858
Uncles, aunts screaming.

436
00:35:45,817 --> 00:35:47,358
Beloved child.

437
00:35:48,900 --> 00:35:50,567
Beloved child.

438
00:35:51,733 --> 00:35:53,567
Because, for a few coins,

439
00:35:53,608 --> 00:35:58,317
you can rescue them
from their punishments and pain.

440
00:35:59,442 --> 00:36:00,483
Listen.

441
00:36:00,567 --> 00:36:02,567
Open your ears.

442
00:36:03,817 --> 00:36:06,192
Father calling to son,

443
00:36:06,233 --> 00:36:08,608
mother to daughter.

444
00:36:09,650 --> 00:36:12,567
When a coin
in the coffer rings,

445
00:36:12,608 --> 00:36:15,483
the soul
from Purgatory springs.

446
00:36:17,983 --> 00:36:22,983
God-fearing man,
do you have a coin for Christ?

447
00:36:23,025 --> 00:36:24,441
Yes.

448
00:36:38,733 --> 00:36:39,983
Gentle mother...

449
00:36:42,483 --> 00:36:45,566
when the time comes,
make certain your crippled child

450
00:36:45,608 --> 00:36:47,650
can run to Jesus.

451
00:36:53,316 --> 00:36:55,525
These learned monks
are standing by

452
00:36:55,566 --> 00:36:57,775
to write down your name

453
00:36:57,900 --> 00:37:01,108
or the name of a loved one,
dead or alive, on this...

454
00:37:02,066 --> 00:37:06,525
your passport to
the celestial joys of Paradise.

455
00:37:14,650 --> 00:37:15,566
Name?

456
00:37:43,816 --> 00:37:45,358
We can preach
until we're hoarse,

457
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:47,650
but if we cannot bring the Christ
of the Gospels to our people...

458
00:37:47,691 --> 00:37:49,733
- ... what do we offer them?
- Dr. Martin!

459
00:37:57,358 --> 00:37:58,941
I did this for Grete.

460
00:38:03,316 --> 00:38:06,400
Issued by
the Archbishop of Mainz.

461
00:38:12,233 --> 00:38:13,691
Where did you get this?

462
00:38:13,733 --> 00:38:17,775
Juterbog.
I bought it in the church.

463
00:38:19,775 --> 00:38:21,733
It's just paper, Hanna.

464
00:38:23,191 --> 00:38:24,733
These words mean...

465
00:38:26,733 --> 00:38:28,108
nothing.

466
00:38:30,566 --> 00:38:32,025
It's no good?

467
00:38:32,025 --> 00:38:34,983
You must put your trust
in God's love.

468
00:38:34,983 --> 00:38:36,608
Save your money

469
00:38:36,650 --> 00:38:38,191
to feed Grete.

470
00:38:59,233 --> 00:39:01,275
"To Albert of Mairnz.

471
00:39:01,316 --> 00:39:04,191
"father in Christ
and most illustrious prince.

472
00:39:04,233 --> 00:39:06,691
"forgive me that I should
dare to write to you.

473
00:39:06,733 --> 00:39:10,900
"I make bold
because it is my duty to serve you

474
00:39:10,941 --> 00:39:13,608
"and to warn you
of the crooked practices

475
00:39:13,650 --> 00:39:16,316
of those who claim
to represernt Your Grace."

476
00:39:23,900 --> 00:39:27,150
"Christ did not command
the preaching of indulgences.

477
00:39:27,191 --> 00:39:28,816
but of the Gospel."

478
00:39:29,983 --> 00:39:31,525
Forward this to Rome.

479
00:39:32,566 --> 00:39:35,025
"Christians are to be taught

480
00:39:35,066 --> 00:39:37,483
"that he who gives to the poor

481
00:39:37,483 --> 00:39:39,108
"or lends to the needy

482
00:39:39,150 --> 00:39:42,858
does a better deed than he
who buys indulgences."

483
00:39:42,900 --> 00:39:44,524
"If the Pope
can empty Purgatory,

484
00:39:44,566 --> 00:39:47,983
why would he not do so
out of love rather than for money?"

485
00:39:51,941 --> 00:39:54,233
My God, who is this Martin Luther?

486
00:39:54,274 --> 00:39:57,108
- Fritz!
- What?

487
00:39:57,149 --> 00:39:59,233
Dr. Luther wanted
everyone to see that!

488
00:39:59,274 --> 00:40:00,899
And everyone will.

489
00:40:05,149 --> 00:40:07,233
Good people of Magdeburg,

490
00:40:07,233 --> 00:40:10,816
take hold of the raft
while you still can.

491
00:40:10,816 --> 00:40:14,024
So much grace
for so little coin!

492
00:40:20,691 --> 00:40:23,149
German money
for the German church.

493
00:40:23,191 --> 00:40:25,566
Does Saint Peter lie
in a German church?

494
00:40:25,608 --> 00:40:27,858
Or Saint Paul?

495
00:40:27,899 --> 00:40:30,066
We don't need your saints.

496
00:40:32,483 --> 00:40:36,649
Or any of the holy apostles?
With this indulgence, I can absolve any sin.

497
00:40:36,649 --> 00:40:39,524
I can even save the soul of the man

498
00:40:39,566 --> 00:40:42,358
who violates
the mother of God herself.

499
00:40:47,774 --> 00:40:50,566
One-fifth of the usual take.

500
00:40:50,608 --> 00:40:53,066
How will you
explain this to Rome?

501
00:40:53,108 --> 00:40:54,566
Damn that heretic!

502
00:40:56,108 --> 00:40:58,358
He will burn in hell.

503
00:40:58,399 --> 00:41:00,983
This drunken little German monk

504
00:41:01,024 --> 00:41:04,108
is intoxicated with himself.

505
00:41:09,649 --> 00:41:10,899
Sober him.

506
00:41:20,566 --> 00:41:22,483
Why was Prince Frederick
not apprised

507
00:41:22,483 --> 00:41:24,233
of your letter
to Albert of Mainz?

508
00:41:25,191 --> 00:41:26,733
Why?

509
00:41:26,816 --> 00:41:28,608
I did not want him compromised.

510
00:41:30,066 --> 00:41:31,899
Now our prince
can swear before God

511
00:41:31,941 --> 00:41:33,733
he had no knowledge
of my writings

512
00:41:33,733 --> 00:41:35,649
or my criticism
of the Archbishop.

513
00:41:35,691 --> 00:41:38,274
Criticism of the Archbishop?
What of your criticism of Rome?

514
00:41:38,316 --> 00:41:40,816
Do you have any idea
how embarrassing this is

515
00:41:40,816 --> 00:41:42,024
to Prince Frederick,

516
00:41:42,066 --> 00:41:43,483
his prize professor of theology

517
00:41:43,608 --> 00:41:45,441
drawing condemnation
from the Pope?

518
00:41:45,483 --> 00:41:48,899
My criticism was not
of the Holy Father himself,

519
00:41:48,899 --> 00:41:51,733
but of those rogues
who claim to represent him.

520
00:41:56,816 --> 00:42:00,358
You have been summoned
to appear by Rome.

521
00:42:00,399 --> 00:42:02,899
You are threatened
with excommunication.

522
00:42:06,316 --> 00:42:08,191
But I'm a loyal son
of the church!

523
00:42:08,316 --> 00:42:10,274
I don't believe the Pope
would issue such a summons.

524
00:42:10,316 --> 00:42:12,149
Welcome to the world
of politics, Doctor.

525
00:42:13,608 --> 00:42:14,858
Martin

526
00:42:19,024 --> 00:42:20,566
Lay low.

527
00:42:20,566 --> 00:42:22,858
Do not write
a single word to anyone

528
00:42:22,899 --> 00:42:25,274
until I have a chance
to sort this out.

529
00:42:27,066 --> 00:42:31,399
They've already published
my explanations of the 95 Theses.

530
00:42:31,441 --> 00:42:33,941
I dedicated it to Pope Leo.

531
00:42:38,483 --> 00:42:41,399
Clearly, clearly
you've heard the rumors...

532
00:42:42,358 --> 00:42:44,858
that the Pope has
summoned me to Augsburg.

533
00:42:44,899 --> 00:42:46,108
Well, it's true.

534
00:42:47,983 --> 00:42:51,108
It's true, and I pray fervently

535
00:42:51,149 --> 00:42:53,191
he will find no fault with me.

536
00:42:56,316 --> 00:42:58,399
But think on this
while I am gone.

537
00:43:01,316 --> 00:43:04,941
We obsess...

538
00:43:06,316 --> 00:43:07,899
over relics.

539
00:43:08,816 --> 00:43:10,441
Indulgences.

540
00:43:10,483 --> 00:43:12,649
Pilgrimages to holy places.

541
00:43:14,732 --> 00:43:18,607
Yet all the time,
all the time, there is Christ.

542
00:43:18,649 --> 00:43:21,857
Christ. Christ, here...

543
00:43:23,066 --> 00:43:25,024
in every corner,

544
00:43:25,066 --> 00:43:26,899
in every hour of the day.

545
00:43:26,941 --> 00:43:31,232
He isn't found
in the bones of saints...

546
00:43:32,024 --> 00:43:35,149
but here,
in your love for each other,

547
00:43:35,191 --> 00:43:37,232
in your love for one another...

548
00:43:38,191 --> 00:43:40,482
in His sacraments,

549
00:43:40,524 --> 00:43:44,441
and in God's holy word.

550
00:43:44,482 --> 00:43:48,399
If we, if we live the word,
by faith...

551
00:43:53,316 --> 00:43:56,691
in love

552
00:43:56,732 --> 00:44:01,066
and service to one another,

553
00:44:01,107 --> 00:44:04,982
we need fear
no man's judgment.

554
00:44:13,316 --> 00:44:15,149
- Good to see you.
- Thank you.

555
00:44:15,149 --> 00:44:17,774
Martin, the faculty
stands behind you.

556
00:44:18,607 --> 00:44:20,232
I have written a letter of protest,

557
00:44:20,274 --> 00:44:22,774
and I'll be the first to sign
should they arrest you in Augsburg.

558
00:44:22,816 --> 00:44:24,441
Thank you, Carlstadt.
Thank you.

559
00:44:32,982 --> 00:44:35,482
Bless you. Bless you.

560
00:44:39,024 --> 00:44:40,024
Father.

561
00:44:40,066 --> 00:44:41,649
Are you in trouble?

562
00:44:45,691 --> 00:44:48,066
What happens now?

563
00:44:49,107 --> 00:44:50,982
I honestly don't know.

564
00:44:53,399 --> 00:44:54,566
Well...

565
00:44:55,482 --> 00:44:59,649
Thank you, Father.

566
00:44:59,774 --> 00:45:02,066
Just try to keep
your big mouth shut.

567
00:45:53,399 --> 00:45:54,941
Father.

568
00:45:54,982 --> 00:45:57,982
She wants you to know
that she prays for you every night.

569
00:46:45,565 --> 00:46:47,565
Father.

570
00:46:51,940 --> 00:46:52,982
Have I...?

571
00:46:57,357 --> 00:46:59,732
Have I caused you trouble too?

572
00:46:59,732 --> 00:47:01,649
I'm here
to get you through this.

573
00:47:02,774 --> 00:47:04,857
They've stopped
Tetzel from preaching.

574
00:47:04,899 --> 00:47:06,899
He's in Leipzig
under house arrest.

575
00:47:06,940 --> 00:47:09,315
That's a good sign, isn't it?
That means that Rome must understand.

576
00:47:09,357 --> 00:47:11,399
It just means he went too far.

577
00:47:13,065 --> 00:47:14,315
Martin.

578
00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:15,982
Martin, listen to me.

579
00:47:15,982 --> 00:47:18,065
Cardinal Cajetan
didn't bring you here

580
00:47:18,107 --> 00:47:20,149
to teach him the Scriptures.

581
00:47:20,149 --> 00:47:22,982
I beg you in God's name
to have a care.

582
00:47:23,024 --> 00:47:24,315
Be temperate.

583
00:47:24,315 --> 00:47:27,190
Don't talk, just listen.

584
00:47:27,232 --> 00:47:30,065
Your life
could depend on it.

585
00:47:30,107 --> 00:47:32,232
He's waiting for you.

586
00:48:03,399 --> 00:48:07,232
I am Girolamo Aleander,
representing Cardinal Cajetan.

587
00:48:08,065 --> 00:48:12,565
Your meeting won't take long.
I'm here to prepare you for tonight.

588
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:15,482
Please.

589
00:48:17,065 --> 00:48:18,065
Sit.

590
00:48:28,190 --> 00:48:31,815
It was never my intention

591
00:48:31,815 --> 00:48:38,482
to say anything against
the honor and the dignity

592
00:48:38,524 --> 00:48:40,149
of our Holy Father.

593
00:48:42,065 --> 00:48:44,024
Of course not, Brother Martin.

594
00:48:46,107 --> 00:48:48,149
And that being the case,

595
00:48:48,190 --> 00:48:50,149
that we all desire peace,

596
00:48:50,149 --> 00:48:55,899
you only have to follow a few
simple rules of protocol.

597
00:48:57,232 --> 00:48:58,774
When you meet the Cardinal,

598
00:48:58,815 --> 00:49:01,815
you will throw yourself on the floor,
face to the ground.

599
00:49:01,815 --> 00:49:05,274
The Cardinal will tell you to stand,
at which time you will kneel

600
00:49:05,315 --> 00:49:08,482
and remain kneeling
throughout your hearing.

601
00:49:10,482 --> 00:49:11,940
Do you understand?

602
00:49:11,982 --> 00:49:13,315
Yes.

603
00:49:14,315 --> 00:49:17,190
If the church takes exception
to a single point,

604
00:49:17,232 --> 00:49:20,732
I will submit to her immediately.

605
00:49:20,774 --> 00:49:24,232
But I'm sure when the Cardinal
and Pope Leo

606
00:49:24,274 --> 00:49:25,482
understand my position...

607
00:49:27,149 --> 00:49:29,149
they'll find no fault with me.

608
00:49:33,315 --> 00:49:35,399
We have a misunderstanding.

609
00:49:36,315 --> 00:49:39,024
There will be no discussion.

610
00:49:40,982 --> 00:49:42,232
No debate.

611
00:49:45,690 --> 00:49:48,399
You have one word to say
and one word only.

612
00:49:49,232 --> 00:49:50,565
Revoco...

613
00:49:50,690 --> 00:49:52,649
I recant...

614
00:49:52,690 --> 00:49:54,440
and the matter is over.

615
00:49:56,107 --> 00:49:58,732
I think we do have
a misunderstanding.

616
00:49:58,732 --> 00:50:01,315
I came to Augsburg
to warn the Pope

617
00:50:01,357 --> 00:50:03,565
about the abuses
against the faithful

618
00:50:03,607 --> 00:50:05,815
by the indulgence preachers.

619
00:50:05,815 --> 00:50:07,232
Have a care, Brother Martin.

620
00:50:07,357 --> 00:50:09,107
It is the Pope who shall decide

621
00:50:09,149 --> 00:50:11,399
what is or is not
beneficial to Christendom.

622
00:50:13,607 --> 00:50:17,648
This evening, one word.

623
00:50:19,857 --> 00:50:20,898
Revoco.

624
00:50:24,648 --> 00:50:27,148
Thank you, Excellency.

625
00:50:34,857 --> 00:50:36,107
Brother Martin...

626
00:50:38,815 --> 00:50:42,232
with your permission,
I'm going to arrange a bath for you.

627
00:50:44,315 --> 00:50:45,982
Thank you, Excellency.

628
00:50:53,065 --> 00:50:55,232
My son, I know you desire

629
00:50:55,273 --> 00:50:58,607
to be a faithful servant
of Christ and His church.

630
00:50:58,648 --> 00:51:00,273
I am here to help you.

631
00:51:03,065 --> 00:51:05,565
Stand on your feet, my son.

632
00:51:13,065 --> 00:51:15,065
What do you have to say?

633
00:51:17,148 --> 00:51:18,898
Have I erred?

634
00:51:19,023 --> 00:51:22,148
Yes, you have erred.

635
00:51:22,190 --> 00:51:23,482
How?

636
00:51:25,898 --> 00:51:28,732
That I may avoid such error again.

637
00:51:28,732 --> 00:51:31,648
You have erred
by teaching new doctrines.

638
00:51:31,690 --> 00:51:34,565
Which of my teachings
is offensive to Rome?

639
00:51:34,565 --> 00:51:35,898
For one, indulgences.

640
00:51:35,982 --> 00:51:38,357
Pope Clement's decree,
Unigenitus.

641
00:51:38,398 --> 00:51:41,523
clearly states that
the merits of Christ

642
00:51:41,565 --> 00:51:43,607
are a treasure of indulgences.

643
00:51:43,648 --> 00:51:44,565
Acquire.

644
00:51:44,648 --> 00:51:47,482
I'm sorry, Your Grace.

645
00:51:47,482 --> 00:51:49,148
I think you'll find it says...

646
00:51:50,398 --> 00:51:54,732
"The merits of Christ acquire
the treasure of indulgences."

647
00:51:55,815 --> 00:51:57,773
I am not here
to wrangle with you.

648
00:51:57,898 --> 00:51:58,898
No, Your Grace.

649
00:51:58,898 --> 00:52:02,732
But Unigenitus was issued
175 years ago,

650
00:52:02,773 --> 00:52:06,482
and were this decree
not so embarrassing to our church,

651
00:52:06,523 --> 00:52:09,648
perhaps it would not be
commonly called Extravagante

652
00:52:10,690 --> 00:52:13,732
and left out of
most collections of canon law.

653
00:52:13,732 --> 00:52:16,898
It contradicts Anomitanos.

654
00:52:16,940 --> 00:52:20,482
Our present Pope Leo is
in harmony with Clement's decree...

655
00:52:21,398 --> 00:52:23,065
and there ends the matter.

656
00:52:23,065 --> 00:52:25,773
The honor of the Papacy
is not preserved

657
00:52:25,815 --> 00:52:28,065
by the naked assertion
of Papal authority,

658
00:52:28,107 --> 00:52:30,982
but by safeguarding
the Pope's credibility

659
00:52:30,982 --> 00:52:33,732
and the clear testimonies
of divine Scripture.

660
00:52:33,732 --> 00:52:36,190
The Pope interprets Scripture.

661
00:52:36,232 --> 00:52:38,607
He may interpret it...

662
00:52:40,565 --> 00:52:42,232
but he is not above it.

663
00:52:42,273 --> 00:52:44,398
He was to say one word.

664
00:52:44,440 --> 00:52:46,648
We both know
the selling of indulgences

665
00:52:46,648 --> 00:52:48,773
have no Scriptural support.

666
00:52:48,815 --> 00:52:52,065
If common people could
read the Bible for themselves,

667
00:52:52,065 --> 00:52:54,023
they would understand
just how broad

668
00:52:54,065 --> 00:52:55,482
the church's interpretations are.

669
00:52:55,523 --> 00:52:57,065
That is outrageous!

670
00:52:57,982 --> 00:52:59,815
The Scriptures are too complex

671
00:52:59,857 --> 00:53:01,648
for even the average priest
to understand,

672
00:53:01,648 --> 00:53:03,398
much less the common man!

673
00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:05,565
Indulgences are
an established tradition

674
00:53:05,565 --> 00:53:08,398
which give comfort to
millions of simple Christians.

675
00:53:08,440 --> 00:53:11,232
Comfort? Your Grace,
I'm not interested in comfort.

676
00:53:11,232 --> 00:53:13,190
Comfort is not the issue!

677
00:53:13,232 --> 00:53:15,023
So you consider your discomfort

678
00:53:15,065 --> 00:53:18,023
more important than
the survival of Christianity?

679
00:53:18,065 --> 00:53:21,065
- I'm interested in the truth!
- The truth?

680
00:53:21,065 --> 00:53:24,023
The Turks are building armies
on our eastern borders.

681
00:53:24,065 --> 00:53:25,690
We are on the brink of war.

682
00:53:25,815 --> 00:53:29,565
To the west, lies a world of souls
who have never heard the name of Christ.

683
00:53:29,565 --> 00:53:31,065
That is the truth!

684
00:53:31,107 --> 00:53:33,482
Christianity is tearing apart,

685
00:53:33,482 --> 00:53:36,315
and just when we need
unity most,

686
00:53:36,357 --> 00:53:37,773
you create confusion!

687
00:53:37,898 --> 00:53:40,857
My goal is not to quarrel
with the Pope or the church,

688
00:53:40,898 --> 00:53:43,815
but to defend them
with more than mere opinion.

689
00:53:43,856 --> 00:53:47,065
The Gospel cannot be denied
for the word of man.

690
00:53:50,065 --> 00:53:52,648
I refuse to argue
with that monk.

691
00:53:53,898 --> 00:53:55,981
You said he was a simpleton.

692
00:53:55,981 --> 00:53:59,231
He questioned
the Pope's authority.

693
00:54:00,273 --> 00:54:02,106
Anomitanos.

694
00:54:02,148 --> 00:54:03,898
Unigenitus.

695
00:54:03,898 --> 00:54:08,481
Or shall we call it Extravagante
like the rest of the world?

696
00:54:08,523 --> 00:54:09,981
He's a heretic.

697
00:54:12,148 --> 00:54:13,898
Our orders were clear.

698
00:54:15,398 --> 00:54:16,731
Either he recant...

699
00:54:17,648 --> 00:54:19,856
Do not presume
to lecture me, Aleander.

700
00:54:20,898 --> 00:54:23,065
I know perfectly well
what our orders were.

701
00:54:25,481 --> 00:54:28,273
I kept my temper and merely asked
to be shown the error of my ways.

702
00:54:28,315 --> 00:54:31,315
If you do not recant, you will be
delivered to the Inquisition.

703
00:54:31,356 --> 00:54:34,148
Will you recant?

704
00:54:34,981 --> 00:54:35,981
What?

705
00:54:40,898 --> 00:54:43,481
Then there is only one way
to save your life.

706
00:54:45,690 --> 00:54:46,731
Kneel.

707
00:54:47,898 --> 00:54:49,940
Kneel!

708
00:54:49,981 --> 00:54:51,398
Martin Luther,

709
00:54:51,523 --> 00:54:55,148
in the name of Christ,
I release you from your vows

710
00:54:55,190 --> 00:54:56,648
to the Augustinian order

711
00:54:56,731 --> 00:54:59,106
and commend you to God's mercy.

712
00:54:59,148 --> 00:55:02,231
I'm no longer your father,
do you understand?

713
00:55:02,231 --> 00:55:04,731
Were I your father,
then under canon law,

714
00:55:04,773 --> 00:55:07,898
I would be obligated to
deliver you to the authorities!

715
00:55:09,856 --> 00:55:12,981
But I'll be
your spiritual father...

716
00:55:15,398 --> 00:55:17,565
until the day I die.

717
00:55:24,648 --> 00:55:26,731
Now go.

718
00:55:26,773 --> 00:55:28,815
Go quickly!

719
00:55:30,273 --> 00:55:32,940
There is a horse at the back gate.

720
00:55:32,981 --> 00:55:35,898
Don't leave me alone,
Father. Please.

721
00:55:35,940 --> 00:55:36,815
Father!

722
00:55:56,106 --> 00:55:57,648
My prince.

723
00:55:57,981 --> 00:55:59,231
how shall I answer?

724
00:56:00,148 --> 00:56:03,815
The Cardinal demands
that Luther be delivered to Rome

725
00:56:03,856 --> 00:56:05,273
or banished from Saxony.

726
00:56:06,315 --> 00:56:08,898
Have you read Luther's work?

727
00:56:10,148 --> 00:56:12,023
Yes, all of it.

728
00:56:12,065 --> 00:56:14,565
Yes. He's a brilliant
little monk, isn't he,

729
00:56:14,565 --> 00:56:16,940
with an independent mind.

730
00:56:17,981 --> 00:56:19,565
Yes, he is.

731
00:56:20,565 --> 00:56:24,148
Oh, Spalatin, you were
at law school with him, weren't you?

732
00:56:24,148 --> 00:56:26,648
Did he show any inclination then

733
00:56:26,648 --> 00:56:32,231
of surrender to influence?

734
00:56:32,273 --> 00:56:33,065
No.

735
00:56:33,065 --> 00:56:37,148
After all, all he has done
is to debate, eloquently,

736
00:56:37,190 --> 00:56:39,231
on a most interesting subject.

737
00:56:39,315 --> 00:56:40,648
And, after all,

738
00:56:40,690 --> 00:56:45,148
that is all one can ask
a good university professor to do.

739
00:56:46,815 --> 00:56:49,315
So what shall we say
to the Cardinal?

740
00:56:56,106 --> 00:56:57,523
Nothing.

741
00:56:57,565 --> 00:57:00,273
My lord, we have to respond.

742
00:57:00,315 --> 00:57:02,856
Spalatin, there are
two ways of saying no

743
00:57:02,898 --> 00:57:05,815
to someone you believe to be
stronger than yourself.

744
00:57:05,815 --> 00:57:08,898
The first is to say nothing

745
00:57:08,898 --> 00:57:12,898
and go on merely doing
what you were doing before,

746
00:57:12,898 --> 00:57:15,231
and pretend
that you never heard,

747
00:57:15,273 --> 00:57:21,398
allow time and inertia
to be your allies.

748
00:57:22,564 --> 00:57:23,773
And the second?

749
00:57:23,814 --> 00:57:29,731
And the second is to say no
in such a kind and thoughtful way

750
00:57:29,773 --> 00:57:32,106
it befuddles them.

751
00:57:32,148 --> 00:57:35,148
Naturally, if both
these strategies fail,

752
00:57:35,189 --> 00:57:38,189
there is nothing but to relent.

753
00:57:39,856 --> 00:57:42,106
Or to fight!

754
00:57:42,148 --> 00:57:44,856
And of course,
if you decide to fight,

755
00:57:44,898 --> 00:57:48,064
you also have to decide to win.

756
00:57:49,314 --> 00:57:54,023
No, I'm not going to
send my monk to Rome.

757
00:57:54,064 --> 00:57:56,481
They'll only kill him.

758
00:57:56,523 --> 00:57:58,773
It's so irritating.

759
00:57:58,814 --> 00:58:01,523
Who are they
to deprive my university

760
00:58:01,564 --> 00:58:03,189
of such a fine mind?

761
00:58:04,148 --> 00:58:07,481
Your little German monk
is still spewing filth at us.

762
00:58:08,398 --> 00:58:10,564
He has a new cartoon circulating.

763
00:58:11,648 --> 00:58:14,231
He calls you an ass
playing a harp, Cajetan.

764
00:58:17,773 --> 00:58:21,398
The point, Your Holiness,
is that he does not write in Latin.

765
00:58:21,439 --> 00:58:22,773
Luther writes in German.

766
00:58:22,814 --> 00:58:24,731
That is his sword.

767
00:58:25,814 --> 00:58:27,898
So he does not
play like a gentleman?

768
00:58:29,314 --> 00:58:31,814
Ordinary Germans
can quote his work.

769
00:58:32,773 --> 00:58:35,689
If we wait,
we might be too late.

770
00:58:35,731 --> 00:58:37,856
You exaggerate his importance.

771
00:58:37,898 --> 00:58:41,648
Besides, you told me yourself
you agree with his list of abuses.

772
00:58:41,648 --> 00:58:43,606
Some of his concerns
have long been held

773
00:58:43,648 --> 00:58:45,814
by those who love the church, yes.

774
00:58:46,731 --> 00:58:48,814
I don't suppose your little monk

775
00:58:48,898 --> 00:58:51,731
would be interested
in a cardinal's hat?

776
00:58:52,648 --> 00:58:55,481
I think he would be
ashamed to wear it, Your Holiness.

777
00:58:55,523 --> 00:58:59,314
We must put pressure
on Prince Frederick, Excellency.

778
00:58:59,356 --> 00:59:00,814
Aleander is right.

779
00:59:00,898 --> 00:59:03,606
Frederick is our key to Luther.

780
00:59:04,981 --> 00:59:06,898
Germany is on the brink of chaos,

781
00:59:06,939 --> 00:59:08,773
and we don't want
to divide the church.

782
00:59:08,814 --> 00:59:11,398
I grow tired of you
missing the big picture, Cajetan.

783
00:59:11,398 --> 00:59:15,481
That's why I've sent Karl von Miltitz
to Germany in your stead.

784
00:59:41,523 --> 00:59:45,481
My lord, greetings
from our most Holy Father.

785
00:59:46,648 --> 00:59:49,981
As for me, I am
especially honored to meet you,

786
00:59:49,981 --> 00:59:53,314
as all of Christendom knows of
your steadfast devotion to the faith.

787
00:59:53,314 --> 00:59:55,564
I have brought you a gift
from our Holy Father...

788
00:59:57,148 --> 01:00:01,939
to express his highest esteem
for your lordship,

789
01:00:01,981 --> 01:00:03,564
for, as you know, my lord,

790
01:00:03,606 --> 01:00:06,523
this most sacred rose
is consecrated annually

791
01:00:06,564 --> 01:00:08,148
by Pope Leo himself,

792
01:00:08,189 --> 01:00:10,356
and sent to just one
favored prince

793
01:00:10,398 --> 01:00:13,314
in recognition
of heroic loyalty and devotion

794
01:00:13,314 --> 01:00:14,731
to Christ's holy church.

795
01:00:30,564 --> 01:00:34,439
Spalatin, I'm sorry
for keeping you so late,

796
01:00:34,481 --> 01:00:38,814
but this is a matter
of some urgency.

797
01:00:38,856 --> 01:00:43,189
First of all,
give Miltitz 600 ducats

798
01:00:43,231 --> 01:00:45,772
as an expression of our gratitude.

799
01:00:45,814 --> 01:00:49,856
My lord, the rose
is hardly worth so much.

800
01:00:49,897 --> 01:00:51,481
Oh, I know that.

801
01:00:51,522 --> 01:00:56,522
And then tell them that
we will not deliver Luther to Rome.

802
01:00:56,564 --> 01:00:59,356
And get that...
that rose...

803
01:00:59,397 --> 01:01:02,106
Put it among the relics,

804
01:01:02,147 --> 01:01:05,147
and while you're about it,
move all the relics out.

805
01:01:05,189 --> 01:01:07,981
Move them to someplace
I don't even know where they are.

806
01:01:08,022 --> 01:01:10,814
I don't want to know
where they are. I want...

807
01:01:10,814 --> 01:01:12,147
Go on.

808
01:01:16,731 --> 01:01:19,189
When I was a child,
I thought like a child,

809
01:01:19,231 --> 01:01:21,647
I was a child,
I played like a child.

810
01:01:23,897 --> 01:01:27,522
And now, thanks to the adults,

811
01:01:27,564 --> 01:01:31,814
I've had to join
the world of adults.

812
01:01:33,606 --> 01:01:36,522
And I am appalled...

813
01:01:37,564 --> 01:01:40,481
by how easy they thought it was

814
01:01:40,522 --> 01:01:42,981
to bribe me!

815
01:02:20,025 --> 01:02:21,775
Armed horsemen!

816
01:02:21,817 --> 01:02:23,775
Over there!

817
01:02:40,942 --> 01:02:43,025
What is so important
that you interrupt us?

818
01:02:43,067 --> 01:02:45,025
Prince Frederick of Saxony.

819
01:02:45,942 --> 01:02:48,983
He refuses to surrender Luther
to you, Your Holiness.

820
01:02:51,358 --> 01:02:53,858
Go! Go, go!

821
01:02:58,858 --> 01:03:01,692
Arise. O Lord
and judge thy cause.

822
01:03:02,525 --> 01:03:05,442
A wild boar
has invaded thy vineyard.

823
01:03:07,192 --> 01:03:09,108
We can no longer
suffer the serpent

824
01:03:09,108 --> 01:03:11,608
to creep through
the field of the Lord.

825
01:03:35,525 --> 01:03:39,817
The books of Martin Luther
are to be examined and burned.

826
01:03:39,858 --> 01:03:41,775
Anyone who presumes to infringe

827
01:03:41,817 --> 01:03:44,150
our excommunication
and anathema

828
01:03:44,192 --> 01:03:47,108
will stand under the wrath
of Almighty God

829
01:03:47,150 --> 01:03:50,025
and the Apostles Peter
and Paul.

830
01:03:50,067 --> 01:03:51,608
Amen.

831
01:03:59,817 --> 01:04:03,983
You can burn his books,
but you can't burn his ideas!

832
01:04:04,817 --> 01:04:07,733
Go back to Rome, you butchers!

833
01:04:07,775 --> 01:04:10,358
Go burn your own books!

834
01:04:10,400 --> 01:04:12,692
Go burn the Pope's books!

835
01:04:12,733 --> 01:04:16,525
Papist devils!
Papist devils, leave us!

836
01:04:16,567 --> 01:04:20,358
By order of His Holiness,
Pope Leo X...

837
01:04:21,192 --> 01:04:23,442
the works of Martin Luther

838
01:04:23,442 --> 01:04:26,275
shall be erased
from the memory of man!

839
01:04:26,317 --> 01:04:29,400
Martin Luther speaks the truth!

840
01:04:29,442 --> 01:04:31,650
- Devils.
- Here, Father!

841
01:04:31,692 --> 01:04:33,858
Find someone else to do it!

842
01:04:43,275 --> 01:04:45,358
He belongs to us!

843
01:04:58,233 --> 01:05:03,858
This... is what Rome calls
a Papal Bull,

844
01:05:03,900 --> 01:05:06,025
an edict from the Pope himself.

845
01:05:06,067 --> 01:05:10,108
There's only one thing to do
with this blast of wind.

846
01:05:11,275 --> 01:05:14,275
Yes! Feed the fire!
Feed the fire with canon law!

847
01:05:14,275 --> 01:05:17,442
Feed the fire with every lie
ever written in Rome!

848
01:05:17,442 --> 01:05:19,942
- Come on, feed it!
- Feed the flames!

849
01:05:19,942 --> 01:05:21,358
Feed it!

850
01:05:21,358 --> 01:05:23,442
That's right, feed the flames!

851
01:05:26,067 --> 01:05:28,275
Feed the flames!
Feed them!

852
01:05:31,275 --> 01:05:33,358
My Emperor.

853
01:05:33,442 --> 01:05:34,983
My good uncle.

854
01:05:35,025 --> 01:05:38,567
Allow me to extend
my congratulations on your elevation.

855
01:05:38,608 --> 01:05:41,650
I've come to speak to you
about Martin Luther.

856
01:05:41,692 --> 01:05:46,067
Our Holy Father has sent
his new cardinal to advise us.

857
01:05:46,108 --> 01:05:49,775
Oh! You mean you've
traveled all the way from Rome

858
01:05:49,817 --> 01:05:54,108
just in order to advise us
about this small matter?

859
01:05:54,108 --> 01:05:58,358
Heresy is never
a small matter, my lord.

860
01:05:59,525 --> 01:06:02,817
Your Highness, if I might
for a moment have your ear.

861
01:06:02,858 --> 01:06:06,900
- If your business is Martin Luther...
- My business is Saxony, sir...

862
01:06:06,942 --> 01:06:11,192
and I wish a brief audience
with my Emperor.

863
01:06:23,775 --> 01:06:26,150
- Deliver Luther to Rome.
- I cannot.

864
01:06:26,192 --> 01:06:30,025
He's my subject. It's my duty to see
that he gets a fair hearing.

865
01:06:30,067 --> 01:06:31,442
Aleander has given me his word

866
01:06:31,483 --> 01:06:34,525
that the Inquisition will
give Luther a proper hearing.

867
01:06:34,525 --> 01:06:37,858
The Rome Inquisition
does not give hearings, my lord.

868
01:06:37,858 --> 01:06:40,192
It gives death sentences.

869
01:06:40,233 --> 01:06:44,817
And the whole of Germany
prays that you will defend her.

870
01:06:44,858 --> 01:06:46,692
The heretic must be tried.

871
01:06:47,733 --> 01:06:52,108
Your blessed grandfather
Maximilian

872
01:06:52,150 --> 01:06:54,483
told us that no German subject

873
01:06:54,525 --> 01:06:58,275
would ever be condemned
without a fair trial

874
01:06:58,275 --> 01:07:01,275
in his own country.

875
01:07:06,608 --> 01:07:08,442
Then we shall hear him
in Germany.

876
01:07:09,692 --> 01:07:10,942
In Worms.

877
01:07:11,067 --> 01:07:15,108
Worms is still a very long way
from Wittenberg, my lord,

878
01:07:15,150 --> 01:07:19,192
and the Pope himself has
put a bounty on Luther's head.

879
01:07:19,233 --> 01:07:21,567
His spies are everywhere,

880
01:07:21,608 --> 01:07:24,483
in defiance of my humble rule,

881
01:07:24,483 --> 01:07:28,983
and therefore, sir,
in defiance of your greater rule.

882
01:07:29,025 --> 01:07:32,233
Then I will ensure
Martin Luther's safe conduct

883
01:07:32,233 --> 01:07:33,650
to a fair hearing.

884
01:07:33,692 --> 01:07:37,192
I myself shall send you
an imperial guard to escort him.

885
01:07:38,358 --> 01:07:40,025
On that you have my word.

886
01:07:40,858 --> 01:07:42,442
Oh, yes.

887
01:07:53,858 --> 01:07:55,942
Martin Luther is coming!

888
01:08:24,817 --> 01:08:27,025
Bless us, Father!
Please bless us!

889
01:08:50,650 --> 01:08:54,817
Help my family, please, Doctor!
Give us your blessing!

890
01:09:01,067 --> 01:09:03,358
Don't kneel to me.
I'm no saint.

891
01:09:03,400 --> 01:09:05,650
Bless me, Father!
Bless me, Father!

892
01:09:05,692 --> 01:09:08,358
Father! Bless me, Father!

893
01:09:15,775 --> 01:09:17,733
I thought
you had abandoned me.

894
01:09:19,192 --> 01:09:21,358
I thought I was
alone again in this world.

895
01:09:21,400 --> 01:09:23,442
Be still, Martin.

896
01:09:23,442 --> 01:09:25,858
One slip, and you'll
save the Emperor a trial.

897
01:09:27,442 --> 01:09:29,108
I'm here to serve you.

898
01:09:30,025 --> 01:09:32,192
I jest because I'm so afraid.

899
01:09:33,692 --> 01:09:38,692
Martin, I hoped
you'd help reform the church,

900
01:09:38,692 --> 01:09:39,942
not destroy it.

901
01:09:41,192 --> 01:09:45,942
With all its sins,
the church is still the church.

902
01:09:45,983 --> 01:09:49,192
What is a child
without its family?

903
01:09:50,233 --> 01:09:53,692
How would people fare
left to themselves,

904
01:09:53,692 --> 01:09:55,442
helpless and frightened?

905
01:10:00,108 --> 01:10:03,358
All my life, I have seen
a world that hates evil

906
01:10:03,400 --> 01:10:05,025
more than it loves good.

907
01:10:08,775 --> 01:10:12,442
I beg you
to look to the good, Martin.

908
01:10:18,775 --> 01:10:21,692
You are tearing the world apart.

909
01:10:26,692 --> 01:10:29,400
That day when you
sent me out so boldly

910
01:10:29,442 --> 01:10:31,067
to change the world...

911
01:10:32,733 --> 01:10:36,275
Did you really think
there wouldn't be a cost?

912
01:10:47,608 --> 01:10:51,067
It is simply a matter
of individual conscience.

913
01:11:00,858 --> 01:11:04,400
They'll burn him for sure.

914
01:11:29,525 --> 01:11:33,400
Do you, Martin Luther,
recognize these books?

915
01:11:33,442 --> 01:11:37,317
The 95 Theses. A Sermon
on Indulgence and Grace.

916
01:11:37,358 --> 01:11:39,400
The Babylonian Captivity.

917
01:11:39,442 --> 01:11:41,442
Freedom of a Christian.

918
01:11:41,483 --> 01:11:45,442
Address to the Christian Nobility
of the German Nation?

919
01:11:46,275 --> 01:11:47,942
Are you the author?

920
01:11:53,692 --> 01:11:55,108
All are mine.

921
01:11:55,108 --> 01:11:58,692
These books contain heresies
against our holy church.

922
01:11:59,608 --> 01:12:02,108
Do you recant
what you've written?

923
01:12:09,692 --> 01:12:11,150
I...

924
01:12:11,192 --> 01:12:12,942
Please, God,
let him say the right thing.

925
01:12:12,983 --> 01:12:15,108
- I was...
- Speak up.

926
01:12:21,900 --> 01:12:23,983
May I have time to consider?

927
01:12:24,025 --> 01:12:26,150
You have had the time,

928
01:12:26,192 --> 01:12:28,775
and you should have been
prepared to answer.

929
01:12:31,483 --> 01:12:33,858
I would like to answer
satisfactorily,

930
01:12:33,900 --> 01:12:36,775
without injury
to the divine word

931
01:12:36,817 --> 01:12:38,858
or danger to my soul.

932
01:12:38,858 --> 01:12:43,025
Any one of us might be
expected to bear witness,

933
01:12:43,067 --> 01:12:46,067
unequivocally and fearlessly
at any time.

934
01:12:46,108 --> 01:12:48,650
All the more in your case,

935
01:12:48,692 --> 01:12:52,108
a famous, experienced
professor of theology.

936
01:13:04,900 --> 01:13:07,608
We grant you one day.

937
01:13:08,692 --> 01:13:10,650
Tomorrow you shall answer.

938
01:13:15,233 --> 01:13:16,775
Damn you, go back to hell!

939
01:13:16,817 --> 01:13:18,525
Damn you,
damn you, damn you!

940
01:13:18,567 --> 01:13:21,067
Damn you, go back to hell!

941
01:13:23,025 --> 01:13:24,983
Shut up, shut up,
shut up!

942
01:13:25,025 --> 01:13:28,025
Shut up! I feel
your foul breath on my neck!

943
01:13:28,067 --> 01:13:30,942
Happy devil you are,
to see me mute!

944
01:13:30,942 --> 01:13:36,483
Shaking... shaking
like an animal at the slaughter!

945
01:13:36,525 --> 01:13:38,317
Oh, my, yes.
Well, where is his faith now?

946
01:13:38,358 --> 01:13:40,942
Where's his faith now?
Where's his boasting now?

947
01:13:40,983 --> 01:13:42,942
Where's his boasting...?

948
01:13:48,775 --> 01:13:52,442
I am yours. Save me.

949
01:13:53,692 --> 01:13:55,858
I am yours.

950
01:13:56,900 --> 01:13:58,150
Save me.

951
01:13:59,692 --> 01:14:01,358
I am yours.

952
01:14:01,400 --> 01:14:03,025
Save me.

953
01:14:14,108 --> 01:14:16,067
Speak well, Doctor.
Good luck, Martin.

954
01:14:16,108 --> 01:14:18,025
- Good luck.
- Good luck, Martin.

955
01:14:28,025 --> 01:14:31,067
- God be with you.
- I pray Thee do Thy will.

956
01:14:31,108 --> 01:14:33,858
Order in the hall.

957
01:14:33,900 --> 01:14:35,858
Order!

958
01:14:37,192 --> 01:14:38,692
Order!

959
01:14:46,067 --> 01:14:50,775
Martin Luther, are you
the author of these writings?

960
01:14:51,608 --> 01:14:53,025
I am.

961
01:14:53,150 --> 01:14:56,358
Do you recant
what you have written here?

962
01:14:59,608 --> 01:15:03,025
I cannot renounce all of my works
because they are not all the same.

963
01:15:05,233 --> 01:15:06,858
First are those books in which

964
01:15:06,900 --> 01:15:11,442
I have described Christian faith
and life so simply that

965
01:15:11,483 --> 01:15:15,358
even my opponents have admitted
that these works are useful.

966
01:15:15,358 --> 01:15:18,858
To renounce these writings
would be unthinkable,

967
01:15:18,858 --> 01:15:22,525
for that would be to renounce
accepted Christian truths.

968
01:15:22,567 --> 01:15:24,525
He is not here
to make speeches,

969
01:15:24,525 --> 01:15:26,233
only to answer.

970
01:15:26,275 --> 01:15:29,692
The second group of my work
is directed against the foul doctrine

971
01:15:29,733 --> 01:15:32,317
and evil living of the Popes,

972
01:15:32,358 --> 01:15:34,692
past and present.

973
01:15:34,733 --> 01:15:36,442
- No!
- Yes!

974
01:15:36,483 --> 01:15:41,358
Through the laws of the Pope
and the doctrines of men,

975
01:15:41,358 --> 01:15:45,858
the consciences of the faithful have
been miserably vexed and flayed.

976
01:15:47,942 --> 01:15:51,358
If I recant these books...

977
01:15:52,733 --> 01:15:56,567
I will do nothing
but add strength to tyranny

978
01:15:56,608 --> 01:15:58,567
and open not just the windows
but also the doors

979
01:15:58,608 --> 01:16:00,108
to this great ungodliness.

980
01:16:01,483 --> 01:16:03,608
He has condemned himself.

981
01:16:03,650 --> 01:16:05,608
In the third group,

982
01:16:05,650 --> 01:16:08,442
I have written against
private persons and individuals

983
01:16:08,483 --> 01:16:09,983
who uphold Roman tyranny

984
01:16:10,025 --> 01:16:13,983
and have attacked my own efforts
to encourage piety to Christ.

985
01:16:16,483 --> 01:16:17,525
I confess...

986
01:16:18,442 --> 01:16:20,858
that I have
written too harshly.

987
01:16:24,525 --> 01:16:26,775
I am but a man and I can err.

988
01:16:29,275 --> 01:16:34,108
Only let my errors
be proven by Scripture...

989
01:16:37,525 --> 01:16:41,775
and I will revoke my work
and throw my books into the fire.

990
01:16:41,817 --> 01:16:43,983
You have not
answered the question.

991
01:16:46,483 --> 01:16:48,525
You, Martin Luther,

992
01:16:48,567 --> 01:16:50,733
will not draw into doubt
those things

993
01:16:50,775 --> 01:16:54,275
which the Catholic church
has judged already,

994
01:16:54,317 --> 01:16:57,608
things that have passed into usage,

995
01:16:57,650 --> 01:17:00,525
rite, and observance...

996
01:17:01,775 --> 01:17:03,275
the faith that Christ,

997
01:17:03,358 --> 01:17:06,983
the most perfect Lawgiver,
ordained,

998
01:17:07,025 --> 01:17:10,358
the faith the martyrs
strengthened with their blood.

999
01:17:13,858 --> 01:17:16,650
You wait in vain
for a disputation

1000
01:17:16,692 --> 01:17:19,400
over things that
you are obligated to believe.

1001
01:17:21,483 --> 01:17:23,692
Now give your answer.

1002
01:17:25,942 --> 01:17:28,275
Yes or no?

1003
01:17:32,525 --> 01:17:35,233
Will you recant or will you not?

1004
01:17:46,358 --> 01:17:48,567
Since Your Majesty
and Your Lordships

1005
01:17:48,608 --> 01:17:51,608
desire a simple reply...

1006
01:17:54,817 --> 01:17:56,192
I will answer.

1007
01:18:00,025 --> 01:18:03,858
Unless I am convinced

1008
01:18:03,900 --> 01:18:05,608
by Scripture

1009
01:18:05,650 --> 01:18:08,025
and by plain reason...

1010
01:18:09,692 --> 01:18:11,567
and not by Popes and councils

1011
01:18:11,608 --> 01:18:14,692
who have so often
contradicted themselves...

1012
01:18:17,025 --> 01:18:22,900
my conscience is captive
to the word of God.

1013
01:18:22,942 --> 01:18:26,608
To go against conscience
is neither right nor safe.

1014
01:18:30,858 --> 01:18:32,108
I cannot...

1015
01:18:34,817 --> 01:18:38,150
and I will not recant.

1016
01:18:40,650 --> 01:18:42,192
Here I stand.

1017
01:18:45,858 --> 01:18:47,608
I can do no other.

1018
01:18:48,983 --> 01:18:51,192
God help me.

1019
01:18:51,192 --> 01:18:53,358
Yes, Martin!

1020
01:18:53,442 --> 01:18:55,650
- The man's a heretic!
- He's a prophet of God!

1021
01:18:57,025 --> 01:18:58,358
Order!

1022
01:19:10,858 --> 01:19:13,317
Young Martin walks out!

1023
01:19:13,358 --> 01:19:15,775
You have your answer!

1024
01:19:18,275 --> 01:19:19,275
Order!

1025
01:19:22,608 --> 01:19:24,192
Order!

1026
01:19:29,400 --> 01:19:30,442
Order!

1027
01:19:31,608 --> 01:19:34,275
- Luther!
- No, it's not that simple.

1028
01:19:34,317 --> 01:19:36,192
- Luther!
- ... the word of God!

1029
01:19:36,192 --> 01:19:38,858
Luther! Luther!

1030
01:19:38,858 --> 01:19:40,775
God bless you, Martin!

1031
01:19:59,108 --> 01:20:00,525
Make way!

1032
01:20:07,192 --> 01:20:10,775
I am descended
from a line of Christian emperors.

1033
01:20:10,775 --> 01:20:13,233
You will not make a heretic of me.

1034
01:20:13,275 --> 01:20:15,608
He has condemned himself,
Excellency.

1035
01:20:15,650 --> 01:20:18,567
He must be stopped before
he infects all of Germany.

1036
01:20:21,983 --> 01:20:26,817
My lord, you gave Luther
the promise of a safe conduct.

1037
01:20:28,358 --> 01:20:30,525
Luther's not a man but a demon,

1038
01:20:30,525 --> 01:20:33,692
clothed in his religious habit,
the better to deceive us.

1039
01:20:35,650 --> 01:20:37,942
Martin Luther's your subject.

1040
01:20:39,108 --> 01:20:40,400
What do you say?

1041
01:20:40,442 --> 01:20:44,692
He is too daring for me,
my lord.

1042
01:20:45,858 --> 01:20:50,775
Although not, it seems,
for the people.

1043
01:20:52,858 --> 01:20:55,650
If anything should happen
to him on the way back...

1044
01:20:57,942 --> 01:20:59,483
so be it.

1045
01:21:06,608 --> 01:21:08,692
Thank you!

1046
01:21:11,192 --> 01:21:14,942
God bless your journey home,
Brother Martin!

1047
01:21:16,817 --> 01:21:19,525
You'll always be
in our hearts, Martin!

1048
01:21:19,525 --> 01:21:22,400
Truth will out, Brother Martin!

1049
01:21:22,442 --> 01:21:24,483
God be with you!

1050
01:21:40,775 --> 01:21:42,942
Why are they leaving us?

1051
01:22:06,900 --> 01:22:07,942
Wait.

1052
01:22:14,608 --> 01:22:15,650
Martin.

1053
01:22:24,525 --> 01:22:28,775
Martin Luther, step down
and your comrade will be spared.

1054
01:22:30,442 --> 01:22:31,733
I'm Luther.

1055
01:22:31,775 --> 01:22:33,025
Ulrick, no!

1056
01:22:37,192 --> 01:22:38,775
I am Luther.

1057
01:24:03,775 --> 01:24:05,567
Spalatin!

1058
01:24:07,525 --> 01:24:09,400
Sorry about the rough ride.

1059
01:24:10,358 --> 01:24:13,233
Prince Frederick was keen
to nab you before someone else did.

1060
01:24:34,525 --> 01:24:36,567
They may have murdered Luther.

1061
01:24:36,608 --> 01:24:39,275
but they will not stop
what we have started.

1062
01:24:39,317 --> 01:24:41,067
The holy war has just begun!

1063
01:24:41,192 --> 01:24:44,275
Any man who holds himself up
as the master of others,

1064
01:24:44,317 --> 01:24:46,567
whether he be prince,
Pope, priest, even professor,

1065
01:24:46,608 --> 01:24:50,442
must repent...
must repent or be cut down!

1066
01:24:50,483 --> 01:24:52,608
You call me Professor Carlstadt.

1067
01:24:52,650 --> 01:24:53,983
No more!

1068
01:24:55,025 --> 01:24:58,692
From this day forward,
I am Brother Andreas.

1069
01:24:58,692 --> 01:25:00,025
Yes.

1070
01:25:00,108 --> 01:25:02,275
And all of you, likewise,

1071
01:25:02,317 --> 01:25:06,192
prepare yourselves
for the great leveling!

1072
01:25:06,192 --> 01:25:08,025
Yes!

1073
01:25:11,775 --> 01:25:14,858
"Thou shalt not make unto thee
any graven image."

1074
01:25:14,900 --> 01:25:17,942
Learn to despise
props and pretensions.

1075
01:25:19,400 --> 01:25:23,025
Stand with the righteous,
or be cut down with the others.

1076
01:25:23,067 --> 01:25:25,358
There is no middle ground!

1077
01:25:25,358 --> 01:25:26,275
Teach us!

1078
01:25:29,192 --> 01:25:32,108
Martin would never have shamed
a student for wearing a crucifix!

1079
01:25:32,150 --> 01:25:34,275
I know Martin Luther.
I discovered him.

1080
01:25:34,317 --> 01:25:36,858
He said reform.
You want revolt!

1081
01:25:36,900 --> 01:25:39,817
If you haven't got the stomach to finish
what he started, Melanchthon, step aside.

1082
01:25:39,858 --> 01:25:41,567
Why are you babbling in riddles?

1083
01:25:41,608 --> 01:25:43,275
Beware, or you too
shall be cut down.

1084
01:25:43,275 --> 01:25:44,275
What?

1085
01:25:53,150 --> 01:25:55,650
I asked for a Greek New Testament.

1086
01:25:57,858 --> 01:26:00,108
I need proper books,
not this rubbish.

1087
01:26:02,942 --> 01:26:04,608
And a Greek-German dictionary.

1088
01:26:07,192 --> 01:26:08,275
Leave us.

1089
01:26:09,525 --> 01:26:11,275
And a Greek-Latin dictionary.

1090
01:26:30,442 --> 01:26:32,525
This is not the time, Martin.

1091
01:26:32,567 --> 01:26:35,108
Well, the Emperor's
going to burn me, anyway.

1092
01:26:37,025 --> 01:26:38,150
He'll burn us all.

1093
01:26:39,608 --> 01:26:40,775
This is treason.

1094
01:26:40,858 --> 01:26:43,817
To have a New Testament
in German,

1095
01:26:43,858 --> 01:26:46,775
in words ordinary people
can understand?

1096
01:26:46,817 --> 01:26:49,108
Yes!

1097
01:26:51,608 --> 01:26:54,275
It's the thing Rome fears most.

1098
01:26:55,233 --> 01:26:58,858
Well, you must blame
the Author for that.

1099
01:27:05,442 --> 01:27:07,317
The wall...
break it down!

1100
01:27:07,358 --> 01:27:08,983
Make breaches!

1101
01:27:18,150 --> 01:27:21,233
No popes! No witches!
No priests!

1102
01:27:21,275 --> 01:27:24,275
This cursed house...
pull her down!

1103
01:27:24,317 --> 01:27:25,775
Come out, you...

1104
01:27:30,858 --> 01:27:34,608
- How do you expect to do this?
- Just give us our rights!

1105
01:27:43,983 --> 01:27:45,650
Blasphemers!

1106
01:27:57,192 --> 01:27:58,858
We must send in soldiers.

1107
01:27:58,858 --> 01:28:00,817
And cause more bloodshed?

1108
01:28:00,858 --> 01:28:05,025
If Wittenberg cannot settle
its religious problems without that,

1109
01:28:05,067 --> 01:28:08,275
then the rest of the world
will not be impressed.

1110
01:28:10,233 --> 01:28:11,692
Send for Luther.

1111
01:28:20,358 --> 01:28:21,775
How's the work?

1112
01:28:24,108 --> 01:28:25,192
Tricky.

1113
01:28:25,233 --> 01:28:26,442
Words are like children...

1114
01:28:26,483 --> 01:28:30,108
the more care you lavish on them,
the more they demand.

1115
01:28:30,150 --> 01:28:31,442
Rather like women.

1116
01:28:31,483 --> 01:28:33,275
I wouldn't know.

1117
01:28:33,358 --> 01:28:35,358
Take this verse in Saint Luke...

1118
01:28:35,358 --> 01:28:37,275
"It is the father's will
that nothing be lost."

1119
01:28:37,317 --> 01:28:40,442
In our language, the word "will"
denotes strength, willpower,

1120
01:28:40,483 --> 01:28:42,108
bending someone to your will.

1121
01:28:43,025 --> 01:28:46,775
But in the original Greek,
this three-letter word

1122
01:28:46,817 --> 01:28:49,775
denotes passion, fire,
inner organs.

1123
01:28:49,817 --> 01:28:54,192
It can mean beloved,
desire, even sexual desire.

1124
01:28:55,525 --> 01:28:56,983
Eat your porridge.

1125
01:28:57,025 --> 01:28:58,442
You're not even listening.

1126
01:28:58,442 --> 01:29:01,275
Besides, porridge does
nothing for my bowels.

1127
01:29:02,942 --> 01:29:06,692
No, it's not the word
that's important,

1128
01:29:06,733 --> 01:29:08,692
but what it's saying about God.

1129
01:29:14,942 --> 01:29:16,775
You are too much alone here.

1130
01:29:18,567 --> 01:29:21,358
"You are too much alone here."
Oh, very good, Spalatin.

1131
01:29:21,358 --> 01:29:25,108
Two weeks since you last came.
Of course I'm too much alone!

1132
01:29:25,150 --> 01:29:28,358
How can I write for our people
when I don't live among them?

1133
01:29:29,692 --> 01:29:33,358
The language of the Bible should be
like a mother talking to her children.

1134
01:29:37,442 --> 01:29:38,858
Well, it's decided,

1135
01:29:38,858 --> 01:29:42,108
Martin Luther
must not leave this room.

1136
01:29:43,983 --> 01:29:45,442
But Knight George...

1137
01:29:46,275 --> 01:29:47,275
may.

1138
01:29:47,317 --> 01:29:50,525
It's time you saw
for yourself, Martin.

1139
01:29:53,775 --> 01:29:56,067
Why? Why were they killed?

1140
01:29:58,983 --> 01:30:00,525
No reason.

1141
01:30:00,525 --> 01:30:02,817
Just happened to be
in the wrong place,

1142
01:30:02,858 --> 01:30:06,275
got in the way of a mob of peasants
looting a monastery.

1143
01:30:06,317 --> 01:30:08,858
The whole world's
been turned upside-down

1144
01:30:08,900 --> 01:30:10,358
by that madman Luther.

1145
01:30:11,608 --> 01:30:13,775
And him saying that
every Christian has the right

1146
01:30:13,817 --> 01:30:15,942
to take what they need by force.

1147
01:30:17,108 --> 01:30:18,858
Well, Luther's gone,

1148
01:30:18,983 --> 01:30:23,150
but his damned ideas have
set the whole earth on fire.

1149
01:30:23,192 --> 01:30:25,858
Soon this country will be blazing.

1150
01:30:30,108 --> 01:30:33,442
Please! Let me go
in the name of God!

1151
01:30:51,608 --> 01:30:56,275
Take off your Roman dresses
or have them burnt off!

1152
01:31:00,442 --> 01:31:02,608
Cowards! Cowards!

1153
01:31:02,650 --> 01:31:04,817
Cowards!

1154
01:31:06,608 --> 01:31:08,233
How dare you?

1155
01:31:08,275 --> 01:31:11,192
You call yourselves Christians?

1156
01:31:11,192 --> 01:31:12,608
Christians?

1157
01:31:12,733 --> 01:31:15,858
You, why are you standing there?
Put out this fire!

1158
01:31:15,900 --> 01:31:17,275
Run! Buckets! Shovels! Run!

1159
01:31:17,317 --> 01:31:19,567
When a limb is rotten,
you must cut it off.

1160
01:31:19,608 --> 01:31:21,650
- You know that as well as I.
- Get out!

1161
01:31:21,692 --> 01:31:23,858
Martin, this is for you!
Let it burn!

1162
01:31:23,900 --> 01:31:26,900
Get out of Wittenberg
before I beat you out!

1163
01:31:26,942 --> 01:31:28,108
Beat me out?

1164
01:31:28,150 --> 01:31:31,442
I defended you.
I supported you.

1165
01:31:31,483 --> 01:31:33,775
I'm carrying on
just as you would have.

1166
01:31:33,817 --> 01:31:35,525
You think this is my work?

1167
01:31:36,358 --> 01:31:38,692
This is never my work!

1168
01:31:38,692 --> 01:31:40,525
No, it's the people's work!

1169
01:31:41,483 --> 01:31:42,858
The people's work!

1170
01:31:45,650 --> 01:31:46,900
It's the people's work.

1171
01:32:00,858 --> 01:32:02,192
Spalatin.

1172
01:32:06,900 --> 01:32:08,358
Are you there?

1173
01:32:10,775 --> 01:32:13,733
Now, how is he?

1174
01:32:13,775 --> 01:32:15,858
Luther's depressed, my lord.

1175
01:32:15,900 --> 01:32:17,192
Confused.

1176
01:32:18,775 --> 01:32:22,025
He feels the peasants
have twisted his language.

1177
01:32:22,025 --> 01:32:23,442
But he will join them?

1178
01:32:25,233 --> 01:32:27,400
Luther abhors violence.

1179
01:32:27,442 --> 01:32:30,858
But he's in sympathy
with their grievances?

1180
01:32:31,692 --> 01:32:35,442
It's hard to argue against
freeing people from crippling taxes

1181
01:32:35,483 --> 01:32:38,358
or the purgatory of being
born slaves all their lives.

1182
01:32:39,192 --> 01:32:42,483
You know, if Luther
were to lift one finger,

1183
01:32:42,525 --> 01:32:47,025
every peasant in Germany
would rise up behind him.

1184
01:32:47,025 --> 01:32:47,942
Maybe.

1185
01:32:50,108 --> 01:32:53,317
Luther's a theologian, my lord.

1186
01:32:53,358 --> 01:32:56,483
He fights,
but with his tongue or his pen.

1187
01:32:56,525 --> 01:32:58,025
He will not draw the sword.

1188
01:33:08,858 --> 01:33:11,858
I have finally
torn the world apart.

1189
01:33:11,900 --> 01:33:14,817
I urged the princes to action.

1190
01:33:14,858 --> 01:33:18,442
and how they have
answered my call!

1191
01:33:18,442 --> 01:33:22,483
I said these rebels
were outside God's law.

1192
01:33:22,525 --> 01:33:28,692
that nothing on earth is more
poisonous, hurtful, or devilish

1193
01:33:28,692 --> 01:33:30,025
than a rebel.

1194
01:33:30,525 --> 01:33:34,525
that they must be stopped
by every means possible.

1195
01:33:35,108 --> 01:33:38,108
And yet the blood they shed

1196
01:33:38,150 --> 01:33:41,483
is as nothing
compared to this slaughter

1197
01:33:41,525 --> 01:33:44,192
I have unleashed.

1198
01:34:14,817 --> 01:34:17,608
You don't want to
go in there, sir.

1199
01:34:50,942 --> 01:34:52,108
It's over.

1200
01:34:54,108 --> 01:34:56,775
Yes. It's over.

1201
01:35:00,525 --> 01:35:01,692
How many?

1202
01:35:05,108 --> 01:35:06,275
No one knows yet.

1203
01:35:07,442 --> 01:35:08,442
How many?

1204
01:35:10,442 --> 01:35:12,108
Some say 50,000.

1205
01:35:13,025 --> 01:35:14,275
Some 100.

1206
01:35:16,692 --> 01:35:18,275
100,000...

1207
01:35:19,692 --> 01:35:20,942
dead peasants.

1208
01:35:22,442 --> 01:35:24,525
There were knights among them.

1209
01:35:29,108 --> 01:35:32,108
That's a plague, Spalatin.

1210
01:35:33,775 --> 01:35:34,817
That's butchery.

1211
01:35:38,025 --> 01:35:39,525
Have a care, Martin.

1212
01:35:40,525 --> 01:35:42,942
You may need these butchers.

1213
01:36:38,275 --> 01:36:39,192
Grete.

1214
01:37:38,858 --> 01:37:40,942
We are seeking Dr. Luther.

1215
01:37:43,442 --> 01:37:46,775
Please. My sisters and I
escaped three days ago

1216
01:37:46,817 --> 01:37:48,567
from the convent at Nimbschen.

1217
01:37:52,942 --> 01:37:56,650
And... you still came here?

1218
01:37:56,692 --> 01:37:59,733
Because this is
where Dr. Luther lives.

1219
01:38:01,817 --> 01:38:05,317
Sir, we were smuggled out
in these herring barrels.

1220
01:38:05,358 --> 01:38:08,150
We've been two nights
on an open wagon,

1221
01:38:08,192 --> 01:38:11,192
have had no rest,
no food, no sleep.

1222
01:38:12,442 --> 01:38:13,858
So if you could just tell me...

1223
01:38:13,983 --> 01:38:15,025
I...

1224
01:38:16,608 --> 01:38:18,567
I'm Luther.

1225
01:38:20,025 --> 01:38:22,025
Katharina von Bora.

1226
01:38:22,025 --> 01:38:23,442
Martin Luther.

1227
01:38:24,400 --> 01:38:25,858
But you know that already.

1228
01:38:28,025 --> 01:38:29,942
I'll take you to a shelter.

1229
01:38:46,483 --> 01:38:47,650
Who's there?

1230
01:38:54,525 --> 01:38:55,442
No.

1231
01:38:58,692 --> 01:39:00,525
Martin Luther?

1232
01:39:00,650 --> 01:39:02,442
My lord.

1233
01:39:03,275 --> 01:39:07,317
Well. We meet at last.

1234
01:39:12,650 --> 01:39:15,442
I dedicated this work
to you, my lord.

1235
01:39:15,483 --> 01:39:17,442
The translation
of the New Testament...

1236
01:39:18,775 --> 01:39:20,358
into our own language.

1237
01:39:20,358 --> 01:39:22,025
Into German?

1238
01:39:26,900 --> 01:39:31,400
But this will
separate us from Rome...

1239
01:39:32,192 --> 01:39:33,567
forever.

1240
01:39:34,525 --> 01:39:37,733
I have always
sought Christian unity,

1241
01:39:37,775 --> 01:39:40,608
but not at the price of servitude.

1242
01:39:40,650 --> 01:39:42,317
I answer to God's law,

1243
01:39:42,358 --> 01:39:44,192
not Roman.

1244
01:39:45,233 --> 01:39:47,733
Roman law is the reality.

1245
01:39:47,775 --> 01:39:49,608
I believe in the reality of Christ.

1246
01:39:49,650 --> 01:39:51,483
With no compromises?

1247
01:39:51,525 --> 01:39:52,733
None.

1248
01:39:57,025 --> 01:40:00,025
You realize, of course,
they'll take this to be

1249
01:40:00,067 --> 01:40:02,400
an act of sheer provocation.

1250
01:40:02,442 --> 01:40:03,775
Yes.

1251
01:40:03,858 --> 01:40:06,358
And they will not hesitate
to strike back.

1252
01:40:06,400 --> 01:40:08,275
Yes, I know.

1253
01:40:11,192 --> 01:40:14,400
Well, so long as you know.

1254
01:40:18,567 --> 01:40:21,692
Do you think I could have
my present now?

1255
01:40:24,525 --> 01:40:25,650
Yes, of course.

1256
01:40:43,567 --> 01:40:47,025
Take my heart

1257
01:40:50,442 --> 01:40:54,817
And never worry

1258
01:40:56,817 --> 01:41:00,025
Evil tongues will mock

1259
01:41:00,067 --> 01:41:03,108
We'll mock in turn

1260
01:41:03,150 --> 01:41:07,733
For my heart
is my gift to thee

1261
01:41:10,858 --> 01:41:13,983
Have not a care

1262
01:41:15,775 --> 01:41:17,483
Never worry

1263
01:41:17,525 --> 01:41:19,192
Stay, Ulrick, stay.

1264
01:41:19,275 --> 01:41:20,608
Please.

1265
01:41:20,650 --> 01:41:22,525
Marry one of
these lovely young women.

1266
01:41:22,608 --> 01:41:24,358
I know there's at least one left.

1267
01:41:24,400 --> 01:41:26,233
I'll bring God's word
to my homeland.

1268
01:41:26,275 --> 01:41:28,858
No, this is not a good time.
No prince can protect you there.

1269
01:41:28,900 --> 01:41:31,025
I want the Dutch people to know

1270
01:41:31,067 --> 01:41:34,067
what I experienced when I
read His word for the first time.

1271
01:41:38,150 --> 01:41:39,400
Then God be with you.

1272
01:41:43,692 --> 01:41:45,233
And with you, Martin.

1273
01:41:51,275 --> 01:41:55,025
You left so quickly,
I feared it was my singing.

1274
01:41:55,067 --> 01:41:56,275
If only it were.

1275
01:41:57,233 --> 01:41:58,442
Look at him.

1276
01:41:58,567 --> 01:42:01,067
He goes to his fate,
hurrying like a bridegroom.

1277
01:42:01,108 --> 01:42:03,858
Not all bridegrooms
are so fleet.

1278
01:42:06,067 --> 01:42:09,192
I would not say the bachelors
of Wittenberg have been tardy.

1279
01:42:09,233 --> 01:42:10,108
True.

1280
01:42:10,108 --> 01:42:12,692
The other nuns are all spoken for.

1281
01:42:12,733 --> 01:42:14,525
And you've made it so clear
that marriage

1282
01:42:14,525 --> 01:42:15,983
is an honorable estate...

1283
01:42:16,067 --> 01:42:18,025
for everyone else, at least.

1284
01:42:18,067 --> 01:42:21,775
- I see why you scare them.
- My grief is that I scare you.

1285
01:42:21,817 --> 01:42:23,275
I know you like me, Doctor.

1286
01:42:23,358 --> 01:42:25,650
I feel your heart
when we make music together.

1287
01:42:25,692 --> 01:42:27,942
But when the music ends,
you flee.

1288
01:42:30,233 --> 01:42:33,567
I'm a man of blood, Katie.
I divide people.

1289
01:42:34,400 --> 01:42:36,775
Thousands have died
because of me.

1290
01:42:36,817 --> 01:42:40,108
Most days I'm so depressed
I can't even get out of bed.

1291
01:42:42,608 --> 01:42:45,150
People try to make me
a fixed star.

1292
01:42:46,692 --> 01:42:47,942
But I'm not.

1293
01:42:49,608 --> 01:42:51,067
I'm a wandering planet.

1294
01:42:52,108 --> 01:42:53,858
No one should
look to me for guidance.

1295
01:43:00,108 --> 01:43:02,192
Two things I promise you...

1296
01:43:02,192 --> 01:43:04,817
we will make
joyous music together,

1297
01:43:04,858 --> 01:43:06,567
and to get to you,

1298
01:43:06,608 --> 01:43:09,400
your enemies will have to
step across my dead body.

1299
01:43:10,650 --> 01:43:13,317
In return,
I ask only one thing...

1300
01:43:13,358 --> 01:43:17,317
that you bring none of them
to our marriage bed,

1301
01:43:17,358 --> 01:43:20,775
not peasants or princes or Popes,

1302
01:43:20,775 --> 01:43:23,567
unless He be a God of love.

1303
01:43:42,317 --> 01:43:44,275
For God's sake,
at least get new candles!

1304
01:43:44,400 --> 01:43:46,608
- There's nothing left except these.
- Now!

1305
01:43:58,067 --> 01:44:00,858
So much for Leo
who would rebuild Rome...

1306
01:44:02,233 --> 01:44:06,275
Bankrupt.
800.000 ducats in debt.

1307
01:44:07,442 --> 01:44:10,233
Had he lived, he would have
sold the Vatican itself.

1308
01:44:11,483 --> 01:44:14,942
But as a Pope,
he could have changed the world.

1309
01:44:15,942 --> 01:44:20,108
He could have reformed the church
instead of just rebuilding it.

1310
01:44:21,358 --> 01:44:25,650
Leo was a spiritual dwarf
when we needed a giant like Luther.

1311
01:44:25,692 --> 01:44:27,317
Well, Luther's getting married.

1312
01:44:31,275 --> 01:44:32,942
To a runaway nun.

1313
01:44:37,650 --> 01:44:39,483
He wouldn't dare.

1314
01:44:55,858 --> 01:44:57,317
If I were to tell you that

1315
01:44:57,442 --> 01:44:59,692
Albert of Mainz sent us
a wedding present.

1316
01:44:59,733 --> 01:45:01,192
what would you say?

1317
01:45:01,192 --> 01:45:02,317
Send it back.

1318
01:45:02,400 --> 01:45:04,775
Then it's as well
he did no such thing,

1319
01:45:04,817 --> 01:45:06,900
or we'd be having
our first quarrel.

1320
01:45:11,608 --> 01:45:13,358
Martin.

1321
01:45:23,692 --> 01:45:26,608
They are going to burn Ulrick!
They caught him at the border.

1322
01:45:53,358 --> 01:45:55,192
What is it?
What has happened?

1323
01:45:55,233 --> 01:45:57,192
The Emperor summons
our princes to Augsburg.

1324
01:45:57,233 --> 01:45:58,358
Why?

1325
01:45:58,442 --> 01:46:01,108
To finish
what he began at Worms.

1326
01:46:01,150 --> 01:46:03,608
You mustn't go.
They'll fry you like a suckling pig.

1327
01:46:03,650 --> 01:46:06,025
If you die, everything
you stand for dies with you.

1328
01:46:06,067 --> 01:46:08,858
All right, what will you say? How will you
make them change their minds?

1329
01:46:08,900 --> 01:46:11,442
- I don't know.
- Well, I need to know!

1330
01:46:11,483 --> 01:46:13,483
Katie, first they
wanted me to recant.

1331
01:46:13,483 --> 01:46:16,275
Now they want half of Europe
to bow the knee.

1332
01:46:16,317 --> 01:46:17,400
We must fight!

1333
01:46:18,567 --> 01:46:20,317
Let somebody else fight.

1334
01:46:20,358 --> 01:46:24,192
Let somebody else be
roasted like a pig!

1335
01:46:41,275 --> 01:46:43,525
All I want is Luther.

1336
01:46:43,567 --> 01:46:46,358
Break the princes,
and you break Luther.

1337
01:46:47,442 --> 01:46:50,400
Their tactics will be to delay,

1338
01:46:50,442 --> 01:46:53,067
to bog the process down in detail.

1339
01:46:54,817 --> 01:46:56,275
Luther's hymns.

1340
01:46:58,442 --> 01:46:59,692
They are.

1341
01:47:00,858 --> 01:47:03,358
You must keep the issues
simple, Excellency.

1342
01:47:04,400 --> 01:47:06,358
They must accept
there is only one church.

1343
01:47:11,067 --> 01:47:13,900
This plague
just goes on spreading.

1344
01:47:16,275 --> 01:47:17,733
I should have burned him!

1345
01:47:27,733 --> 01:47:30,817
My princes, brothers in Christ.

1346
01:47:30,858 --> 01:47:33,150
this isn't a time for caution.

1347
01:47:33,192 --> 01:47:35,317
but for boldness.

1348
01:47:35,358 --> 01:47:39,108
Charles is not the frightened youth
you saw at Worms, Dr. Luther.

1349
01:47:39,108 --> 01:47:41,900
He has humbled France
and sacked Rome itself.

1350
01:47:41,942 --> 01:47:43,858
Only the Turk
remains a threat to him.

1351
01:47:43,858 --> 01:47:47,525
In a word, he has all the time
and resource in the world

1352
01:47:47,567 --> 01:47:49,400
to reduce us to a powder
piece by piece,

1353
01:47:49,442 --> 01:47:51,358
state by state.

1354
01:47:51,483 --> 01:47:54,608
And I think he means to do it.

1355
01:47:56,900 --> 01:47:58,025
My lords...

1356
01:47:59,692 --> 01:48:02,150
silence will not save us.

1357
01:48:02,192 --> 01:48:04,608
If we challenge Charles,

1358
01:48:04,650 --> 01:48:06,483
will there be war...

1359
01:48:07,942 --> 01:48:10,192
the awful shedding
of yet more blood?

1360
01:48:10,233 --> 01:48:13,858
I honestly don't know. I've mislaid
all my former certainties.

1361
01:48:13,900 --> 01:48:15,525
But think.

1362
01:48:18,358 --> 01:48:21,775
The Emperor invites us
to present our creeds,

1363
01:48:21,817 --> 01:48:24,567
to present what we believe in.

1364
01:48:24,608 --> 01:48:27,733
Satan invites us to preach in hell.

1365
01:48:28,567 --> 01:48:30,025
Is that a trap?

1366
01:48:33,442 --> 01:48:36,692
Or our greatest opportunity so far?

1367
01:48:37,525 --> 01:48:41,067
And remember, since I may not
come with you to Augsburg,

1368
01:48:41,108 --> 01:48:43,983
you'll face Charles' rough alone.

1369
01:48:52,025 --> 01:48:53,442
Your choice is simple.

1370
01:48:54,817 --> 01:48:58,817
If you give in, my lords,
the bright comet that is our faith

1371
01:48:58,858 --> 01:49:02,858
will shatter and be reduced
to a few isolated torches,

1372
01:49:02,858 --> 01:49:05,858
sputtering in a dark universe.

1373
01:49:11,608 --> 01:49:13,025
This way!

1374
01:49:34,942 --> 01:49:38,775
And why does the father run
to meet his prodigal son?

1375
01:49:39,608 --> 01:49:41,275
Landowners don't run.

1376
01:49:41,358 --> 01:49:43,108
Noblemen don't run.

1377
01:49:43,150 --> 01:49:44,817
Princes don't run.

1378
01:49:45,775 --> 01:49:50,233
So why does this rich,
landowning father run?

1379
01:49:53,275 --> 01:49:55,400
Because he's afraid.

1380
01:49:55,442 --> 01:49:59,942
He's so afraid that his son
will run back to the filthy pig farm.

1381
01:49:59,942 --> 01:50:03,442
He runs
because he loves his son.

1382
01:50:03,442 --> 01:50:07,942
And there's
a special word for this love.

1383
01:50:09,400 --> 01:50:10,442
Compassion.

1384
01:50:11,358 --> 01:50:13,025
Compassion.

1385
01:50:13,025 --> 01:50:16,358
And you know
what this word means?

1386
01:50:18,858 --> 01:50:20,942
It's just a church bell, Martin,

1387
01:50:20,983 --> 01:50:22,608
ringing the Angelus.

1388
01:50:27,525 --> 01:50:29,400
Continue the story.

1389
01:50:49,942 --> 01:50:52,817
Beloved princes of the Empire,

1390
01:50:52,858 --> 01:50:55,858
I will be brief
and to the point.

1391
01:50:55,900 --> 01:50:58,525
Your ministers
shall not preach,

1392
01:50:58,567 --> 01:51:02,525
and you will outlaw these Bibles
in the common language

1393
01:51:02,567 --> 01:51:06,483
and declare anyone who possesses one
an enemy of the state.

1394
01:51:15,442 --> 01:51:18,275
We will not stop our ministers
from preaching the word,

1395
01:51:18,275 --> 01:51:20,358
here or anywhere else.

1396
01:51:20,358 --> 01:51:22,525
Do not concede, my lord.

1397
01:51:26,067 --> 01:51:29,400
We will not outlaw
the new Bible, my lord.

1398
01:51:30,442 --> 01:51:32,525
As a sign
of your loyalty to me,

1399
01:51:32,567 --> 01:51:34,483
tomorrow you shall all march

1400
01:51:34,525 --> 01:51:37,108
in the Corpus Christi procession
to the cathedral

1401
01:51:37,150 --> 01:51:41,900
and worship, all of you,
in the Roman manner.

1402
01:51:53,858 --> 01:51:56,692
We will not, my lord.

1403
01:51:56,733 --> 01:51:57,608
You will!

1404
01:51:58,692 --> 01:52:01,358
Or you shall know my sword!

1405
01:52:01,400 --> 01:52:04,067
Before I let anyone
take from me the word of God

1406
01:52:04,108 --> 01:52:08,358
and ask me to deny my belief,

1407
01:52:08,400 --> 01:52:12,608
I will kneel
and let him strike off my head.

1408
01:52:57,317 --> 01:53:02,525
Your Highness, we have drawn up
a confession of our faith

1409
01:53:02,567 --> 01:53:05,358
which I believe
you will find blameless.

1410
01:53:42,025 --> 01:53:44,525
I am so very happy
to have been loved by you...

1411
01:53:45,775 --> 01:53:47,025
Katharina von Bora.

1412
01:53:57,608 --> 01:54:00,608
Martin! Martin!

1413
01:54:00,650 --> 01:54:03,358
We did it, Martin!

1414
01:54:03,400 --> 01:54:04,567
We did it!

1415
01:54:04,608 --> 01:54:08,358
The Emperor allowed us to read
our confession of faith!

1416
01:54:08,400 --> 01:54:11,275
The princes stood up to him!

1417
01:54:12,108 --> 01:54:13,567
He had to listen!

1418
01:54:13,775 --> 01:54:16,692
They can't stop us now,
Martin!

1419
01:54:38,770 --> 01:54:44,693
What happened in Augsburg, opened the gate
to the freedom of religion and changed the world.

1420
01:54:44,767 --> 01:54:49,406
Martin Luther lived, preached and taught
the God's word 16 years more.

1421
01:54:50,881 --> 01:54:56,365
He and Katharina von Bora were
happily married and had six children.

1422
01:54:57,011 --> 01:55:03,366
His Bible translation laid the foundation-stone
for a common German language.

1423
01:55:04,070 --> 01:55:14,070
Today over 540 million people pays
the service in the way Luther helped shape.

1424
01:55:24,070 --> 01:55:30,367
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