"The Divine Order"
Film and discussion series "LAW AND JUSTICE"
In cooperation with the Kinemathek Karlsruhe, we are going on a cinematic search for clues on the subject of "LAW AND JUSTICE. BETWEEN UTOPIA AND REALITY".
Discuss climate, punishment, sport and justice with us and selected experts and discover the highlights of international film culture with us.
Our next film and discussion evening: "The Divine Order" by Petra Volpe (Switzerland 2016, OF)
Nora is a young housewife and mother living with her husband and two sons in a tranquil Swiss village in 1971. There is little sign of the social upheavals of the 1968 movement. However, the village and family peace is shaken when Nora begins to campaign for women's suffrage.
Switzerland was one of the last European countries to introduce women's suffrage at the federal level and only granted half of its population their full civil rights in 1971. civil rights. We take Petra Volpe's film as an opportunity to take a look across the border to Germany. Because women also demonstrated in what was then West Germany in the 1970s against their structural inequality - despite women's women's suffrage. Who were the pioneers of legal emancipation? emancipation? What about gender equality today? Was was the situation for women in the GDR fairer? And are legal means at all to enforce equal rights for all genders? enforced?