I really wish there were subtitles for non-German speakers to enjoy this two parts miniseries about the Münster rebellion to its full. And, of course, we can have an endless discussion about historical accuracy versus artistic licence and what not, but the ending was a bit weird.
We all know that still to this day, there are three cages hanging from the church tower in Münster, because three leaders of the rebellion were tortured and executed.
But here, only Jan Bockelson (Christoph Waltz) in the final scene dies, and suffers a much less agonizing death, where the court jester drives a knife to his heart, to end his suffering.
This is of course cinema, but here I honestly think reality surpasses poetry. For anybody who wants to know about the real, and much more exciting rebellion, there is for example, Dan Carlins excellent Hardcore History podcast episode about this, or Murray Rothbards essay on "Messianic Communism in the Protestant Reformation" at the Ludwig von Mises Institute.
We all know that still to this day, there are three cages hanging from the church tower in Münster, because three leaders of the rebellion were tortured and executed.
But here, only Jan Bockelson (Christoph Waltz) in the final scene dies, and suffers a much less agonizing death, where the court jester drives a knife to his heart, to end his suffering.
This is of course cinema, but here I honestly think reality surpasses poetry. For anybody who wants to know about the real, and much more exciting rebellion, there is for example, Dan Carlins excellent Hardcore History podcast episode about this, or Murray Rothbards essay on "Messianic Communism in the Protestant Reformation" at the Ludwig von Mises Institute.