500 years ago, a revolutionary priest named Martin Luther changed the face of Christendom and the path of European civilization forever.
Network
ZDF
Status
Ended
Type
Miniseries
First Aired
2017-10-30
Last Aired
Original Name
Zwischen Himmel und Hölle
Jan Krauter
Thomas Müntzer
Maximilian Brückner
Martin Luther
Johannes Klaußner
Andreas Bodenstein
Johanna Gastdorf
Äbtissin
Aylin Tezel
Ottilie
Anna Schudt
Barbara Cranach
Peter Lerchbaumer
Jakob Fugger
Frida Lovisa Hamann
Käthe
Armin Rohde
Hartmann
Maximilian Ehrenreich
Hieronymus
Christoph Maria Herbst
Lukas Cranach
Joachim Król
Albrecht von Brandenburg
Rüdiger Vogler
Kurfürst Friedrich
Arnd Klawitter
Domherr Eck
1. Part 1
90m
Five hundred years ago a revolutionary priest changed the face of Christendom and the path of European civilization forever. Risking his life and academic reputation, facing damnation and purgatory in 1517, he pinned his inflammatory 95 Theses to the church door in the Catholic church and the western world would never be the same again. His name was Martin Luther. This is a story of a group of people alive 500 years ago whose internal convictions led them to forge a new path - one that ultimately changed the world.
2. Part 2
1521 - The Catholic church has excommunicated Luther and condemned him as a heretic, but the Reformation can no longer be stopped. Whilst in hiding, and widely believed to be dead, Luther translates the Bible into German for the first time so that the ordinary people can read it.
