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ZURICH 1519

Stop!

Hey!

Good day, Mistress Anna.

I know how much
you loved your husband.

I will mention him in my prayers.

Isn't it time for
another requiem mass?

But I paid for one
on All Souls' Day.

Yes - one...

I have three children.

Up to the first floor.

- Can we please...
- Get away from here!

Do you know Greek?

- Why Greek?
- Bless you!

Get lost, brats!

Hey...

Hey!

Riffraff...

Who looks after those children?

- Those brats?
- Yes?

No one.

Tell me - why Greek?

I want to go further than Erasmus.
Have you read his books?

His edition of the New Testament?

He went back to
the original Greek text.

I'm content with the Vulgate myself.

You must read it, Hofmann.
It will make a new man of you.

Get settled here first, Zwingli.

We'll have plenty of time
later for debate.

And they should have
some new clothes.

Come along!

Hey, shall I say mass for you?

I'm the Holy Spirit!

He has a way with virgins.

Go to the devil!

- Hey...
- Bless you!

...do you want to catch the plague?

Which of you really knows this book?

It's the Bible.

Our Bible.

In this book...

God speaks to us.

But which of us truly
understands what he's saying?

From today I am going to read
from the New Testament.

And I'll do it in German.

In our language.

I'll begin with the
Gospel of St. Matthew.

I will read it aloud
and explain to you...

what I think the words mean.

This is the book
of the birth of Jesus Christ,

the son of David,

the son of Abraham...

- What's he doing?
- Shhhh!

Abraham gave birth to Isaac.

Isaac gave birth to Jacob.

Your Excellency, Burgomaster Röist.

Welcome to our city.

It's good that you've come.

Master Zwingli.

- This is...
- Tremendous!

I am Konrad Grebel
and this is Felix Manz.

We very much want to talk to you.

Zwingli!

Gentlemen...

What was that supposed to be?

- But I clearly said...
- You can't create havoc like that!

As a People's Priest...

You must tend to people's souls.

Good old Zwingli.

The great humanist!

Faber!

I bring greetings from
the Bishop of Constance.

He must stick to the standard texts.

And the mass is still said in Latin.

How many decades will you need
to explain the whole Bible to us?

The Lord God has plenty of time.

And do you?

Just don't start throwing
your weight around like Luther.

Understood?

How long would I be
away from my farm?

That all depends on the French army.

At any rate,
you get to see the world.

How did it go?

Abraham gave birth to Isaac,

Isaac gave birth to Jacob,

and Jacob?

How could they 'give birth'?

You need a cow for that,
not a bull, eh?

What do you think?

Will he continue like that?

At least we understand it now.

Do we need to?

I'll get another round.

He would have you...

He's not even fifty.

We'd have to give Gerold away.

That's out of the question.

You can't be that choosy!

I must pay for another requiem mass.

The chaplain is sick.

Could you say the mass for me?

Please.

I don't do that any more.

What?

The dead are fine where they are.

They're fine...

in purgatory?

There is no purgatory.

What are you saying?

Who are you?

Wait!?

Let me explain!

We don't have to pay to make things
better for the dead, wait...

Master Zwingli...
I couldn't keep him out.

He just walked straight in...

Leo!

I'm sorry.

It's fine, Thea.

This is Master Leo,
my college friend from Basel.

Well?

How did you make a start?

I don't listen to confession
or say masses for the dead.

- And?
- Oh Leo.

It will be hard work.
They are scared stiff.

No wonder, when the Popes
for a thousand years

have told them about a vengeful God.

But...

And ye shall know the truth,
and the truth shall make you free.

For truth has a joyful face!

Look, Erasmus has
published a new pamphlet.

Could you look
through my translation?

I can't find anyone in Einsiedeln
who does it as well as you.

I'd be glad to.

He said...

there was no purgatory.

But that's a sin.

Well, that's what he said!

Two jugs of red wine.

Gerold, why are you
talking to the priest!

- School starts on Monday.
- But you're not going!

But you said I could learn to read.

Go and wash up.

Now!

Has Zurich become the new Rome?

Of course, and he's the new Pope!

- And you're the Virgin Mary!
- Ooh...

Master Zwingli.

As a farmer's son,
what do you think of tithes?

Does it bother you?

Why do we pay taxes to the monks?

Why should they eat
and drink at our expense?

And fornicate?

He will be the ruin of our city.

My children have to go hungry to bed.

You're right.

There's nothing in this world
more useless...

than those fattened pigs
in their monks' habits.

Corpus Christi.

Corpus Christi.

That's enough of your
Latin mumbo jumbo!

Does anyone here
understand a word of it?

- How dare you!
- Shut your mouth!

We want to understand
what it says in the Bible.

Get out!

Or do you want to die
as ignorant as the day you were born?

That's enough!

Get out!

Hello?

Does anyone need help?

Is anyone there?

Does anyone need water or bread?

In Matthew 11 Christ says:

Come unto me, all ye that labour
and are heavy laden,

and I will give you rest.

Take my yoke upon you,
and learn of me.

For I am meek and lowly in heart.

And ye shall find rest
unto your souls.

All the other priests have left
the city because of the plague...

Why did you stay?

I can't go.

You see?

Neither can I.

For whom was that
funeral mass you wanted?

For your husband?

We must take care of the living,

not the dead.

Use the money for your children.

And for yourself.

Hallowed be Thy name.

Thy Kingdom come.

Thy will be done on earth
as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our trespasses.

Is that vinegar?

Be quiet.

Why do you bring this
quackery into the house?

They say it helps.

Saint Sebastian, help us!

Our Father, Who art in heaven.
Hallowed be Thy name...

What's happened to Master Zwingli?

Don't go anywhere near this house.

Is he still alive?

Not for much longer.

He's sent everyone away.

Hey!

What are you doing?

He doesn't deserve this.

Anna.

Stay here!

Anna!

Hello?

What are you doing here?

You mustn't come in here!

- You have to eat.
- Get out of here!

Get out at once!

I am your vessel.

Use me.

Or break me.

Help, o Lord,

help in our need!

I feel that death is at the door.

A miracle.

He didn't want me up there yet.

My dear Leo,

greetings my brother.

I feel in the depths of my soul

that God has spared my life.

How blessed am I that God
is using me as his instrument.

It is God's will

that we heal our church of ist
sickness and make it well.

And God assigns you, Leo,

to fight with me here
in Zurich for the cause.

Go.

Every third inhabitant of Zurich
has died of the plague.

So we must ask ourselves:

why did God spare us?

So that we continue to
drag his name through the mud?

The orphans in the streets,
have you seen them?

They are freezing and starving.

And what does our church do?

Drape silk and velvet
on images of the saints,

rather than help the orphans!

Do we imagine that
the Heavenly Father

ignores the misery
of these children?

That he rolls over and snores?

I was hungry and you gave me food.

I was thirsty
and you gave me to drink.

I was a stranger
and you welcomed me.

What you have done for one of the
least of these my brethren,

you have done for me.
That is in Matthew's Gospel.

To be a Christian

is not to just chatter about Christ,

but to lead our lives
as Christ led his.

The beggars in the streets,

they suffer such hunger

and must enlist as soldiers
and mercenaries.

And while those poor devils
are dying in battle,

the princes and pensionaries
sit on their fat arses.

What do you know of war?

Trust me:

I have seen more of war
than I care to remember.

And I tell you:

these traffickers in human beings
are destroying our community.

Not just in this city,
in the whole Confederation.

Their profits are what
matter to them, nothing else.

And if we

and our church stay silent about it,

then we are just as guilty
of these crimes.

What are we going to do now?

Be patient.

We could start by
banning letters of indulgence!

One thing at a time.

And the whole business of war!

Be patient, I tell you.

Good day, Froschauer.

Could you print my sermon?

Here it is.

They wear red hats and gowns,
and if you shake them,

ducats and crowns drop out.

Wring them,
and the blood of your son,

your brother, your father,
your friend runs out.'

I can think of some people
who won't be happy with this.

That's what we want.

I don't know...

What we'd really like is a leaflet
for every citizen of Zurich.

If only they could all read.

That's changing now.

When people can read, they'll realise
how they've been screwed.

There was a monk here just now
who doesn't even have his own Bible.

Well, at your prices.

A Bible costs more than a cow!

Well? Can you print it for us?

I don't want this in the house.

The ironmonger will
give us a good price.

It was his sword.

I know.

You just want to forget him.

No, Gerold.

You can't sell it.

It belongs to me.

I'm his son.

What is God?

Hmm?

What God is, we know as little...

as a beetle knows what a man is.

But the true face of God

we see in the faces of the poor

and the outcasts.

Are you still accepting new pupils?

Gerold would be very happy.

So would I.

Come and join us!

Come on.

Yes, all of you.

You are always complaining
that you don't get enough to eat.

But it's Lent!

All the more reason.
Come and sit with us.

But it's forbidden.

The Lenten fast is an invention.
A fairy tale.

Nowhere in the Bible does it say
you mustn't eat meat.

It's nonsense!

Hey, Hubertus!

I don't want to be
burned at the stake.

Cowards!

Fasting for Lent is over.

It's better if I don't...

Yes Köbi.

Flesh and fleshly desires!

What are we priests supposed to do
with our fleshly desires?

Köbi...

carnal desire is the most
natural thing in the world.

A stallion will mount any mare
he comes across.

Have you ever seen
a stallion in a cassock?

Of course, go to Einsiedeln.

They screw anything
on two legs there.

Bishops should really be married.

Yes, we all dream of that.

No really: A Bishop
must be blameless,

of good behaviour and...

the husband of one wife.

Of one wife!

First Epistle to Timothy.

Have you heard?

They ate twenty sausages
at Froschauer's. 20 sausages!

Nothing is sacred to them.

And they even boast about it.

Heretics!

Trout, grayling,
char, fresh from the lake!

For anyone to whom
our Church is still sacred!

Are you worried about business?

Are you eating sausages too?

Perhaps there is really nothing
about fasting in the Bible.

Shut up!

Have you read the Bible?

No, but I would like to be able to.

Wouldn't you?

That's blasphemy.

I'd like six trout please.

I'm not selling you anything.

Don't sell to them,
they're sausage eaters!

What?

Get lost.

Hey, I fast like everybody else!

'On the Freedom of Food!'

Do you want to know what it
says in the Bible about fasting?

Nothing!

Not a word on the
subject in Holy Scripture.

It's just one big fraud.

And Master Zwingli exposes it.

Read the latest pamphlet from
the Froschauer printing house:

'On the Freedom of Food!'

Buy one, go quickly.

Not a word about
fasting in Holy Scripture!

It's all a huge fraud.

'On the Freedom of Food!'

But Master Zwingli exposes...

Mistress Anna! Mistress Anna.

You should have fish to eat.

Oh, thank you.

That's very kind.

Be careful, Mistress Anna.

Thank you.

One day we will
clean up this city again.

And I don't want you to be thrown in
the lake with the rest of the scum.

No thank you.
We'll eat porridge today.

The Bishop is demanding
an immediate ban on sermons.

Just because he has provoked you?

It's blasphemy,
you know that as well as I do.

As far as I know, Master Zwingli
didn't eat any sausage.

If you want to fast, do so.

If you don't want to
eat meat, don't eat it.

But allow Christians a free choice.

We're to be free to choose
whether to fast or not.

Freedom of choice!

The Zurich Council has no objection.

Those who break the fast in
other cities are condemned to death.

Yes.

But this is Zurich.

Without the Council, your Bishop
has no authority here.

You should seriously consider
which side you want to be on.

I'll make your Bishop a proposal.

A disputation?

A public debate?

In the City Hall?

The Council has no right

to decide theological questions.

I know.

We won't dispute with them.

Then the Council
will decide without us.

Oh yes?

And how's that supposed to work?

Your Eminence.

In Zurich they do as they please.

Because we are weak.

We have never set them
any limits until now.

We must force Zurich

to abandon Zwingli.

Mother!

Mother!

Mother.

May I go?

Proc... pro...

Proclamation of a Debate.

A disputation between Zwingli
and the Bishop's representatives.

And they'll decide
if he is a heretic.

I want to be there. I must.

And if he loses?

All his pupils will be there.
Please!

What if he loses...

On the occasion of the disputation to
be held in the noble city of Zurich,

I, Ulrich Zwingli,
will present 67 articles...

- We'll get you!
- Just wait!

You will rot in hell.

- Go back to where you came from.
- You heretic.

You'll be sorry!

Silence!

Silence please!

Silence.

For the sake of peace...

and unity we seek to

determine together today

if what people's priest Zwingli
preaches is the true word of God.

One moment.

A secular council has no authority

to decide theological questions.

Only an ecumenical council can.

And only the Pope can convene one.

Why? It is quite possible
that we can read the Bible too.

You can't do this.

What about the papal decrees?

And the customs and dogmas
of our Holy Church?

The Council is partisan!

Nonsense, since when
has the Bible been partisan?

Stop, stop, stop.

I'm not claiming to be a theologian.

I am simply saying:
let us examine these questions...

A special welcome to our Lady Abbess
of the Fraumünster Convent,

Katharina von Zimmern.

I repeat... Let us...

dispute these questions...

with each other peacefully.

Begin.

My sermons are causing unrest.

I am prepared to question everything,

to question myself.

Measure my words
against Holy Scripture,

and only against Holy Scripture.

Sola scriptura.

If you find anything that does
not correspond with the Bible,

I will humbly withdraw it.

So, Vicar General Faber...

Where does it say in the Bible

that we may not
eat meat during Lent?

I repeat:

I will not dispute these matters
in this chamber.

So it is allowed to eat meat?

That's not the point.

If we rely only on Holy Scripture,

we deny a 1000 year old tradition.

Show me the passage in the Bible
that describes purgatory.

Show where Jesus hires mercenaries
and incites people against people.

Show me where Jesus
exploits the misery of the poor...

and where he approves of pomp.

Among all those who found
their way to Jesus,

there were no priests,

no monks,

no bishops,

and above all

no Pope.

That is blasphemy!

Balderdash!

No one comes to the Father
except through me.

Those are the words of Jesus
from the Gospel of St John.

We need no intermediaries,

no saints.

No one who places himself
between God and human beings,

especially as a means

of earning money.

Who do you think you are!

You mock the Pope and the Bishop.

Your sermons are
bursting with filthy sayings

and bad jokes.

Do you really believe you can
serve God in that way?

If he takes the Bible so literally,

he should show us the passage

where it says you can
father children and do a runner.

He has a bastard child in Einsiedeln.

You are a fine one
to tell such fairy tales.

How many bastards do you have?

The Lord knows what I have done.

But you are right.

A priest shouldn't father children

and then take to his heels.

A priest should be allowed

to father children
and marry the mother.

But celibacy suits you
and your Pope,

doesn't it?

The priests dutifully buy indulgences

for their mistresses...

and their secret offspring.

You really think
things will be better

if you do away with all the rules?

Your faith in humanity
is misplaced, Zwingli.

Human beings are weak!

They need clear leadership
from the Church.

If everyone does what they
happen to think is right,

like Zwingli in his
godless arrogance,

the result will be... the Apocalypse!

Who wants a bet?

Will he continue to preach
or be burned as a heretic?

I'm sure he would burn well.

Puff!

It wouldn't surprise me

if he just disappeared one day...

and never came back.

The Council has concluded

that it all boils down

to one question:

do we recognise Holy Scripture

as the basis

of Master Zwingli's actions?

And so the Great Council
has determined as follows:

Master Zwingli

has not been proved wrong

on a single point.

He may therefore continue as before.

He shall preach the gospel

and only the gospel.

Congratulations.

The gospel has been
asleep like a dormouse,

but we are stirring it awake.

We shall wipe the dust from every
syllable and carry it into the world.

- Good evening.
- Congratulations.

Thank you.

Hello?

Hello!

I was afraid I'd have to visit you
in the Wellenberg Tower.

They've reached a decision.

I am not a heretic.

Of course not.

I heard about that
business in Einsiedeln.

I am not without faults.

I am no priest's whore.

I know.

Anna.

I want to explore with you
the deeper meaning

of these words.

These are not dead letters.

There is life in them, and spirit.

Köbi.

Will you start?

You can translate that as:

'In the beginning was the Word.'

No.

The Greek word

Logos...

refers to...

the word of the divine...

creator.

Erasmus translated it as 'sermon'.

Discussion.

An awareness of the
complete reality of our existence.

And that can never be expressed
in a single German word.

Nor in the Latin 'verbum'.

Gentlemen. Please.

- We are working.
- Indeed.

We are translating the Bible.

Aha... all together.

Yes.

All together.

Does it have to be here?

People should be able
to listen to us. And join in.

What stupidity.

So you plan to interpret the Bible
with the lowliest of peasants?

They can't even read.

They will learn to.

Enough of this madness.

This is a place
for singing, not disputation!

Where are you headed, my good woman?

I don't want us to be seen together.

Why? We are only talking.

Do you have pigs?

Donkeys?

They don't eat soup.

This evening?

Is it good?

Hm, the people's priest in person.

Why does she bring you food?

Because your words
don't fill our stomachs.

Is that better?

Do you know her well?

I was in the warwith her husband.

At the Battle of Novara.

Anna's husband was a mercenary?

In fact he was a nobleman,
from a rich patrician family.

But then he fell in love
with Anna from the "Rössli".

And then?

Then he married her.

And his parents
took everything from him.

Everything.

To earn a living he went to war.

Came back with
a goddamned wound fever.

Of which, by the grace of God,
he then went and died.

I am with you.

To your Eminence the Bishop.

Allow us priests to take a wife.

For it is better to take a wife

than to indulge improper lust.

Carnal desire is not a bad

or an evil thing,

for it is part of human nature.

Why are these paintings
still in our Minster?

Let's get rid of the stuff.
We must make progress!

But that's what we're doing.

But not only translating!

What do you mean 'only'?

Well, they're not going to walk
out of the church on their own.

Hey, hey!

Hey, stop that!

We can't do everything at once.

People need time to adapt to change.

Come on!

Our city is ready for change.

Let Zwingli decide!

He has good judgement
in these matters.

Next in line...

are the abbeys.

- The abbeys?
- If we dissolve them,

we can give their treasures
and all their benefices to the city.

To those godless
fellows on the Council?

The Council has a right
to have a say.

We all belong together.

The Church, the Council...

everyone who lives in this city.

And what will become
of the monks and the nuns?

They can marry
and lead normal lives.

I see...

and when do you intend to marry?

There's a rumour that you...

are pleasuring yourself
with a lovely widow.

Aha...

They say Zwingli's good
with his tongue.

Yes.

And we want permission
for priests to marry.

You want permission!

You'll never get that.

Not in 500 years.

If the Council carries on
with our reforms, then...

Stop there!

We got rid of the mercenary system,
you can preach the gospel.

What more do you want?

To dissolve all
the abbeys in the city.

We can use their wealth
to care for the poor.

We'll set up a system of poor relief.

Beggars and orphans
will have regular meals

and no longer loiter in the streets.

Röist...

talk to the Council.

You're serious about this.

Of course.

The Bishop has shirked
his responsibilities for years.

No one looks after the sick,

no one looks after the poor.

You want the city
to have the church's money

and take on the church's duties?

And the farmers
continue to pay tithes.

But we will need that revenue then.

But one thing has to stop...

bonded labour, you must abolish that.

Every person must be free.

Tell me, what is it
you eat for breakfast?

Bull's testicles?

Have you any idea

how long our order
has been in this city?

How long have you been here?

Every nun will receive
a reasonable sum

when she leaves the abbey.

We are a holy community!

We have dedicated our lives to God.

Exactly.

You nuns think you are better
because you lead a holy life.

But God forgives us our sins
because we believe in him,

not because we bribe him
with pious deeds.

If you show up here again,

then I will shit in your holy gospel!

What do you think you're doing!

Get out of here!

Get out of my abbey!

What's going on here?

Mother Abbess.

Has he been to see you too?

May I explain?

Leave us alone for a moment.

You don't have to explain.

The Mayor came to see me.

Mother Abbess.

You are the most
powerful woman in Zurich.

Everyone agrees
the church must renew itself.

- You are mad!
- Just let me...

I have been Abbess here for 28 years.

This is my life,

and I like it.

Why should I suddenly
give up my abbey?

Because I know you have read
the Sermon on the Mount,

that you read Erasmus,

and that you share my criticism
of the Pope and the Church.

Oh really?

How interesting.

But it's true.

Lying hypocrites and fat cats
annoy you just as much as me.

The things you know...

Katharina.

The treasures from your
abbey could help fund

a hospital and an orphanage.

With the benefices
from the Great Minster

we could found a theological college

and give scholarships to students
from the common people.

What a dreamer you are!

- To fall up...
- Upon

To fall upon Adam.

Upon Adam.

And took one of his ribs.

Haven't you anything better to do?

Don't you want to know
how we were created?

What's that you're carrying?

Zwängel wants to brick up the miracle
spring at the Water Church.

So you want to stockpile?

- It isn't a miracle spring.
- Shut up!

It isn't. Master Zwingli
explained it to us.

It can't be true.

Please tell me

that it's not from that devil.

Anna.

I...

I know a midwife

who could help you out.

Go upstairs!

He's a charlatan, for God's sake!

He's already fathered one bastard

and left the woman in the lurch!

Have you forgotten what happened?

What is it?

You mustn't.
You must stay away from me.

Why?

I bring bad luck to every man.

We are eleven priests
from throughout the Confederation.

We are demanding that the Bishop
repeal clerical celibacy.

I have already
made one terrible mistake.

The Lord punishes us for our heresy.

No, he doesn't.

How do you know that?

God is merciful.

He doesn't punish us.

He likes us.

Even when we make mistakes.

Anna.

I know what happened
to your husband.

Anna.

He didn't die because
God wanted to punish you both.

We are expecting a child.

Is it true?

Zwingli!

So that's her.

Leave Anna alone.

The Bishop no longer finds it funny.

Because he sees that I am right.

I'll make you a final offer.

You can live with
the woman for all I care

and father as many
children as you like.

But do what the others do.

Pay your concubine tax
and keep quiet!

That I won't do.

We've had enough
of this goddamned hypocrisy.

All right.

Then we will act.

And we'll spare no one.

Not you.

Nor your woman.

What if they do something to Anna?

You can't keep it secret any longer.

Marry her!

Do you know what I'm afraid of?

That we're tearing each other apart.

What?

Haven't you heard what
Manz and Grebel are saying?

That you're a hypocrite.

That you rant against celibacy,
but are too cowardly to marry.

Another of our brothers in
Lucerne was condemned to death,

do you know why?

He ate meat on Good Friday.

Yes.

But we're in Zurich.

What are you afraid of?

The whole town is bad-mouthing you.

If you go to him now...

you need never come home again.

Never.

They are heretics!

Shut your mouth!

Yes, heretics!

Ulrich Zwingli.

Do you take Anna Reinhart
to be your wife...

in the name of God?

I do.

Anna Reinhart.

Do you take Ulrich Zwingli to be
your husband in the name of God?

I do.

Ulrich.

Anna.

May you both...

love each other...

and be faithful...

to each other.

Amen.

A married parish priest.

That's going too far.

Why?

Why?

The times are changing

Then we'll see to it

that your friend Zwingli
is excommunicated.

And if Zurich doesn't disown Zwingli,

this city's days are numbered.

What does that mean?

We are forging an alliance

Not now!

I am donating the
Fraumünster Abbey to the city.

What's this?

Voluntarily.

To avoid unrest and
preserve the peace in our city.

The whole abbey?

With all its lands and benefices.

Give Zwingli and his reforms
your full support.

Use our wealth to provide
relief for the poor.

And see that all the other abbeys

are handed over to the city.

Thank you.

And you, Mother Abbess?

Don't worry on my account.

Friends, today we celebrate!

Indeed! To Zwingli, our Reformer!

No, no!

To Anna.

Welcome to your new home.

And to all of you!

The first priests' wives
in the Confederation.

God bless us!

To love!

And to life!

Wife, I love you with all my heart!

Oh mine, oh mine!

I'd gladly give you what you want!

Oh mine, oh mine!

Take it from me when you will!

Oh mine, oh mine!

For I am thine!
If I could, I surely would

enter your heart, oh mine!

Hurrah! To Zwingli and his Anna!

At least leave the organ up there.

Are you worried that, if it goes...

we will hear your shoddy singing?

My singing?

I will never sing again
in this godforsaken house.

Good evening.

Anna?

- Wait!
- Let me go to her!

Please.

Be patient, just for a moment.

What happened?

Nothing.

Nothing happened, everything's fine.

What are they doing there?

Who?

The soldiers outside.

The Council is trying to protect us.

Shouldn't you rein things in a bit?

Ulrich...

We've got what we wanted.

The wind could easily change.

The Lord is with us.

We don't have to be afraid.

You said that yourself.

Master Zwingli!

Hey!

Stop that!

Hey!

Look who's here!

Zwingli!

Master, come on, join in!

Stop this at once!

Do you object to our
little fire of purgatory?

Here comes more fuel.

Stop!

He's not one of us!

He refuses to preach
the gospel to us in German.

Let him go.

No.

We're going to burn him.

Hey, hey!

Right.

And now we will all
behave like true Christians.

Were you behind it?

What?

They are saying that
he was ambushed...

Zwingli.

Don't worry, he's still alive.

Tell me, have you gone mad?

You'll make a martyr of him!

It's the only way to rein him in.

The Council, and the guilds,
and the farmers.

They are all eating out of his hand.

You've lost control!

And the best you can come up with
is a pair of deadbeat thugs!

We don't need a couple of thugs.

What we need is an army.

Regula Zwingli.

Born...

31st July...

1524

Look...

Is that my...

Your old chasuble.

Beautiful.

Don't you want to baptise Regula?

Who's been saying that?

What does the Bible say
about baptism?

You've been talking to Manz...

A woman...

A woman spoke to me in the market.

It's one of Manz's
and Grebel's crazy ideas.

They say only adults
should submit to baptism.

And...

What does it say in the Bible?

It's not clear one way or the other.

Why do we only baptise children?

It's a sign that children
already belong to God.

Anna...

The baptism of adults is forbidden.

By the Council.

Strictly forbidden.

I baptise you...

Felix Manz.

I baptise you...

Regula Zwingli.

In the name of the Father...

and of the Son...

and of the Holy Ghost.

Amen.

Give you a finger, and you
take the whole hand!

That's not true!

Do you know what it means
if children are not baptised?

Yes of course...

Without a baptismal register a city
has no citizens with obligations.

No need to explain it to me.

I'm as much against it as you are.

Then do something.

And quickly.

Otherwise I can't help you any more.

Felix, you have to stop.

You are putting us all in danger.

Only an adult can
consciously decide for God.

Infant baptism is unbiblical.

You can't decide for or against God,

the way you decide
to buy a fish at market.

What you are saying is blasphemy.

It's not blasphemy.

We mustn't start arguing
amongst ourselves!

Don't you see how risky it all is?

Sometimes things must be destroyed
to make way for the new.

Do you really believe that through
this you can become a new man?

I am one already.

You like to think
you are the only chosen,

true, pure Christians.

We are simply abiding
by the Holy Scriptures.

Sola scriptura.

In the Bible it also says:

Suffer the children to come unto me,
for of such is the kingdom of God.

You interpret the
Holy Scriptures as it suits you.

Does the Council
now pay you for that?

Think hard about it.

The Council is threatening you
with the death penalty.

The Council should
clean up its own muck.

Master Zwingli!

Köbi.

I'm...

I'm tired of hanging around.

I want to go
where I'm really needed.

I'm going to Schwyz.

Don't do it.

I'm going.

I want to preach there.

People in other cantons
should be able to hear the Gospel.

It's dangerous there...

on your own.

A good shepherd...

listens only to God.

You said so yourself.

Godspeed.

Jesus sowed the seeds

not of violence but of love.

He wants us to live
together as brothers and sisters.

We need no Pope for that!

No priest!

No emperor!

And no Great Council in Zurich

telling us what to do!

The Kingdom of God
is not of this world!

We won't be told any more
who we can have as preachers.

We'll decide that for ourselves!

That's right.

So come to our
gathering this evening.

And be baptised.

Only thus can we wash ourselves

clean of our sinful old selves

and be born again with Christ!

Look.

Fetch your family and go!

Come now!

Go!

Take it easy.

I'm not going to run away.

Shut up!

Röist!

You mustn't kill Manz.

Oh really?

The Anabaptists have had
enough warning, now it's over.

But shedding blood?

Do you know what will happen if

I let Manz go and the Anabaptists
carry on as they are?

There will be civil war.

They shit upon our city,
on our laws, on our rules.

I know, but...

Ulrich, there is no other way.

Or do you want your Reformation
to drown in blood?

They are going to execute Manz.

What are you waiting for?

Go to Röist, talk to him!

I already have.

But he'll listen to you.

Didn't you say we had
achieved enough?

That we should
rein things in a little?

That's exactly what I said to Felix.
But he wouldn't listen.

You are sacrificing Manz...

What?

The Council was left with no choice.

What are you doing here anyway?

Look after your own affairs!

Praise be to God.

And to His...

Be quiet now!

truth...

I am dying for...

His truth.

For our baptism...

That's enough of your gibberish!

Our baptism is lawful...

and grounded in God's word.

Did Christ not say

that his disciples
would suffer for the truth?

Praise be...

Quiet now!

Praise be to God.

Felix Manz...

has incited only trouble and riot...

against the Christian authorities.

He shall be drowned...

and perish...

by water.

Our Lord God is with you!

We must take steps

before this canker spreads
through the whole Confederation.

Who is with us?

Lucerne, Zug...

Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden. We are in
talks with Graubünden.

St. Gallen and Solothurn
might also come over to our side.

What would you say
to negotiations with...

the Habsburgs?

A military alliance.

With Habsburg?

How about excluding Zurich
from the Federal Council?

- That wouldn't do it.
- It might.

It would certainly
impress the Council.

One course of action
does not exclude the other.

They want to throw us
off the Federal Council.

I know.

You know?

Berne...

Basel, Mülhausen,

Strassburg, St. Gallen, Schaffhausen?

We need allies.

And I must meet Luther.

If we have him, we have
all the great imperial cities

and their armies.

You think we can win them
all for the Reformation?

Most learned Martin Luther,

for years we have quarrelled in print

about the true meaning
of Holy Communion.

It is a great shame

that we two are not able to agree.

Since we are both
surrounded by enemies.

I would gladly come to Marburg

to clear this
misunderstanding with you.

The images of the saints went back
to those who donated them.

Everything else
we have sold at market

and put the money
in the pot for the poor relief.

The same could be done in Basel.

Our professed aim is the
first Reformed College.

Here we will translate
the whole Bible into German,

together with the best scholars
from all over Europe.

This for example
is Heinrich Bullinger,

a brilliant theologian.

These are councillors from Solothurn.

The whole Bible.

Faithfully translated into German.

The very first complete German Bible.

Your work, Ulrich.

Our work.

A Zurich Bible.

Next we want to publish
a Latin translation

of the Koran.

The Koran?

Yes, it hasn't yet been
published in book form.

Master Zwingli.

Berne will do all
it can to support you.

They've arrested Köbi.

In Schwyz.

Ulrich?

It's not working.

What's not working?

The Word.

People hear the Gospel,

but the words
don't penetrate their skulls.

It doesn't change them.

That's not true.

Open your eyes.

It's all just...

superficial.

And all the beggars
who now have something to eat?

And all the peasants,
the children, the women...

who are learning to read?

Yes, and what will happen to them

if it's not just Köbi,
but all of us under attack?

We have four cantons
behind us already.

And thanks to Berne, they can't
exclude us from the Federal Council.

Do you think we could have
achieved all that

if God wasn't on our side?

Graubünden is
under attack from Milan.

The Catholics are
attacking Graubünden.

The Papists have
realised we are right.

So now they resort to violence.

Graubünden is in peril.
Who will be next?

Look after my horse.

- Aren't you going home?
- No.

You've been on your feet
for 27 hours now.

The Milanese are
attacking Graubünden.

What's the Federal Council doing?

Nothing, the Central Cantons
refuse to help.

But they must! Graubünden
belongs to the Confederation.

Tell me first...
How did it go with Luther?

It's clear as day now.

We will never see eye to eye.

What?

He's just not one of us.
That cannibal!

He still believes we eat
the actual body of Christ,

drink his real blood.

Deep down he's still a Papist.

But without Luther we are on our own.

I did my best,
but he was just abusive.

Said I was the devil
and worse than the Pope.

There's a reason why the Federal
Council won't help Graubünden.

Maybe Habsburg is behind it.

They've formed an alliance
with the Central Cantons

They'll attack first in the south,
and they won't rest

until they've destroyed the
reform movement across Europe.

What do you suggest?

We must attack
the old believers first.

I'm sorry...

but Berne cannot
afford open conflict.

Who can?

There are other ways
to tighten the screw.

For example...

a total food blockade.

That won't be enough.

Why not?

We blockade all roads
to the Catholic Cantons.

The people there will eat again if
we're allowed to preach the gospel.

Never underestimate
a starving populace.

Do you really think we can
force our faith on others?

That's not what I want.

But would you let the Papists
destroy everything?

I would put my trust in God.

Master Zwingli.

A livestock dealer told me
that troops are gathering in Zug.

More than a thousand men, he says.

Ulrich!

Wait!

Leave that to the Council of War.

What has happened to my friend?

The Lord would not
let people starve to death.

Don't forget
your own message, Ulrich.

The Lord will show everyone
that He is on our side.

We found our way back to
the living word of Holy Scripture,

to humanity, to freedom.

And now?

Is everything we built in the last
12 years to be destroyed?

Is that what we want?

If we wait even longer,

then in no time they
will be at our city gates.

Aren't you overstating the situation?

The reports all
contradict each other.

What about Berne?

They'd still rather wait.

The risks are too great.

We can't fight
this alliance on our own.

What happened to your courage?

Your faith?

For God's sake, do something brave!

If you just sit on your hands

and wait for them to attack,

then I shall resign
from all my posts.

No, Ulrich.

You can't blackmail us like that.

All these years we listened to you,

but now you must listen to us.

It would be a terrible mistake
to attack without help from Berne.

We wait.

Is it true what they're
saying in the inn?

Is it?

Say something!

Don't send the
poor devils to die in battle.

Who was it who preached that?

One should fight for a just cause.

You told me how
soldiers turn into animals.

You told me how war
destroys communities.

Those were soldiers
who had sold their soul.

I don't fight for foreign masters.

I fight for the Lord.

You have a family!

You have four children
and you have a wife!

God is with us!

We have sinned from the beginning,

everything repeats itself.

Anna, didn't you listen to me?

No one has sinned!

The Old Believers have
declared war on us.

7000 from the Catholic cantons
are marching on Kappel.

The Council sent me.

Where is your armour?

The stores are locked!

Are you joking?

Has no one come from the Council?

It's not possible.

This can't be all the
fighters we have?

The vanguard is on its way
with 1500 men.

The main force has
only 1000 soldiers so far.

With the stragglers we can
muster three and a half thousand.

They have twice the numbers we do.

Let's get going.

Advance!

We have no time to lose.

Ulrich, Ulrich!

Not Gerold.

Tell him you forbid him to go.

It's pointless, mother.

I'm going.

God be with you.

God bless us.

In our need we look to Thy mercy.

In our sorrow we look to Thy word.

In our fear Thy word guides us.

Where are they?

Anna.

Where is Ulrich? Where's Gerold?

Tell me what happened!

You don't want to know!

I do, I must!

- You don't want to know.
- Yes, tell me.

What did they do?

They tormented him,

violated him,

tore him to pieces,

threw him on a huge fire

and scattered his
ashes over the battlefield.

That's her.

Don't you want to keep
your husband company in hell?

I wish he had never
set foot in our city!

He plunged us all into misery.

Can't you hear him...

screaming and groaning in hell?

Serves him right.

No.

The Lord will not punish him.

What's that?

Who cares what you say.

He likes us.

Even when we make mistakes.

The Devil sent him.

No.

Is that the work of the Devil?

Is it the Devil who wants

human beings to think for themselves?

In recent years

we have won a new freedom.

This freedom entails
a heavy responsibility.

We have all felt the pain of that.

But this freedom is also precious!

On no account
will we give it up again.

We go on...

day by day.

Many people...

wish we had
the old certainties back.

But I know

we have no other choice

than to keep on searching.

It is remarkable that
after the lost battle

other devestating religious wars

between the confessions
didn't happen.

After the death of Ulrich Zwingli

Heinrich Bullinger became his
successor at the Großmünster.

Together with Leo Jud
he solidified Zwinglis reformations

and carried them
forward peacefully.

Bullinger was also able to connect
the Zurich reformations

with the European movement

and thereby carry
Zwinglis ideas out into the world.

A new era began.