Martin Luther
- IMDb link: 0046051
- IMDb rating: 6.8 (763 votes) Search
- Genres: Drama, Biography, History
- Director: Irving Pichel
- Cast: Niall MacGinnis, John Ruddock, Pierre Lefevre, Guy Verney and others
- Release date: 25 Oct 1954
- Release year: 1953
- Runtime: 105 minutes
- Country: West Germany, United States
- Keywords: character name as title, martin luther character, year 1530, year 1505, 1510s, 1520s, 1500s, docudrama drama, male protagonist, remade
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Biopic of German priest Martin Luther (Niall MacGinnis), covering his life between 1505 and 1530 A.D., and the birth of the Protestant Reformation movement.
This biographical account of Martin Luther's actions that eventually created the Lutheran and Protestant denominations was filmed in conjunction with the Lutheran Church. Niall MacGinnis portrays the friar whose nailing of the ninety-five Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg created such a stir that it shook the foundations of the medieval Church. This movie shows the struggle between Luther and Rome, and how the medieval Church did not fully explain things he questioned, which led to him to be labelled a heretic.
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