The Divine Order

PAST FILM SCREENING

February 28 – 2PM + 7:30PM

Switzerland, 2017 – 14A – 96 minutes
Directed by Petra Biondina Volpe
Cast: Marie Leuenberger, Maximilian Simonischek, Marta Zoffoli, Bettina Stucky, Rachel Braunschweig, Sibylle Brunner, Noe Krejcí, Finn Sutter, Peter Freiburghaus, Therese Affolter, Ella Rumpf, Nicholas Ofczarek, Sofia Helin, Elias Arens, Mirjam Zbinden, Marietta Jemmi, Kristin Flückiger, Urs Bosshardt, Fabienne Hadorn, Sandra Utzinger, Steffi Friis, Walter Leonardi, Ingo Ospelt, Guido Baumann, Janis Joplin

Straining under the confines of her traditional housewife duties and the pervasive conservatism of her small Swiss town, Nora reluctantly becomes the local face of the fight for women’s suffrage in Switzerland.

The Divine Order charts Nora’s journey as she bands together with a rag-tag group of local women and confronts the many public  restrictions as well as the complexities she faces at home.

Despite the rallying political movements and sexual revolutions of the late 1960s, Swiss women in the early 1970s had yet to feel any reprieve from the conservative social mores of the post-war period.

Without the vote, they had little opportunity to steer social change in their favour.