A piece of Swiss history arrives in cinemas next year: the priest with revolutionary ideas, «Zwingli». Now an official teaser trailer and teaser poster have been released for preview. In 1519, a new ...

Zurich in 1519: The young widow Anna Reinhart lives a barren life between fear of the church and worries about the future of her three children, when the arrival of a man in the city causes turmoil: ...

"For God's sake, do not put yourself at odds with the Word of God. For truly it will persist as surely as the Rhine follows its course. One can perhaps dam it up for awhile, but it is impossible to ...

“Ah God! If only Adam had eaten a pear!” So wrote the young Swiss Priest Ulrich Zwingli in the margin of a copy of St. Augustine’s City of God. It was the half-quizzical, wholly anguished cry of a man ...

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