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Die unbarmherzigen Schwestern

Originaltitel: The Magdalene Sisters
  • 2002
  • 12
  • 1 Std. 54 Min.
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Die unbarmherzigen Schwestern (2002)
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Drei junge irische Frauen kämpfen um ihren Lebensmut, während sie als Insassinnen eines Asyls der Magdalene-Schwestern unmenschliche Misshandlungen ertragen müssen.Drei junge irische Frauen kämpfen um ihren Lebensmut, während sie als Insassinnen eines Asyls der Magdalene-Schwestern unmenschliche Misshandlungen ertragen müssen.Drei junge irische Frauen kämpfen um ihren Lebensmut, während sie als Insassinnen eines Asyls der Magdalene-Schwestern unmenschliche Misshandlungen ertragen müssen.

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    • Peter Mullan
  • Drehbuch
    • Peter Mullan
  • Hauptbesetzung
    • Eileen Walsh
    • Dorothy Duffy
    • Nora-Jane Noone
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      • Peter Mullan
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      • Peter Mullan
    • Hauptbesetzung
      • Eileen Walsh
      • Dorothy Duffy
      • Nora-Jane Noone
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    • Nominiert für 2 BAFTA Awards
      • 18 Gewinne & 15 Nominierungen insgesamt

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    Eileen Walsh
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    • Crispina
    Dorothy Duffy
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    Nora-Jane Noone
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    • Bernadette
    Anne-Marie Duff
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    • Margaret
    Geraldine McEwan
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    • Sister Bridget
    Mary Murray
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    • Una
    Britta Smith
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    • Katy
    Frances Healy
    • Sister Jude
    Eithne McGuinness
    • Sister Clementine
    Phyllis MacMahon
    Phyllis MacMahon
    • Sister Augusta
    • (as Phyllis McMahon)
    Rebecca Walsh
    • Josephine
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    8aquamanda

    From my experience with nuns - a somewhat restrained film

    The Magdelene Sisters is a good portrayal of the very real behaviour of nuns. I am English and emigrated to Canada with my family. I attended a catholic school which was run by these social misfits, and from my very first day, I was persecuted for the following crimes: I had a short hair cut, my hand writing was not neat, I did not know the words to the Canadian national anthem, I had an English accent, I was good at drawing, I failed to smile at the right time during assembly, I slipped on some ice in the school grounds and hurt myself. etc., etc., etc. I was hit countless times during my few months there - before I left the horrible place. I was constantly referred to as "the green horn Englishman",mocked and imitated because of my accent, and belittled because I didn't know the Canadian national anthem, which we were required to sing every morning before lessons began - (I'd only been in the country weeks - I soon learned it). I was kept behind after school regularly because my handwriting was "unacceptable", causing me to miss my bus home (I had a long way to travel). I was once hit across the back of my head with the words "you write like a boy, you talk like a boy - you even look like a boy". I was eight years old. My sister, who was ten, received remarkably similar treatment. I was terrified to tell my parents because I thought they would speak to the nuns and I would be worse off. Instead they thankfully took my sister and me out of school after she admitted what was going on. I have nothing but contempt for these people. I feel that anything which exposes them as they really are can only be of value to society, above all, for the protection of children.
    8lastliberal-853-253708

    I'd commit any sin, mortal or otherwise, to get the hell out of here.

    What is the difference between the parents of the girls in the asylum and the nuns who ran it? Absolutely nothing; they were both guilty of unspeakable crimes against these girls.

    What is the difference between the nuns and Southerners? Absolutely nothing; they both used people as slaves.

    The nuns silence as a weapon to keep the women from getting to know each other. One woman (Mary Murray) who ran away is brought back by her father (Peter Mullan), who beats her up in front of the women in the dormitory. Her hair is then cut off by Sister Bridget (Geraldine McEwan) in an attempt to further degrade her. In another instance, the three new arrivals along with others are forced to stand naked in front of a nun who ridicules their body parts. Crispina (Eileen Walsh) is sexually abused by a priest.

    The Catholic Church has never apologized for the horrendous and inhumane treatment of over 10,000 girls that were imprisoned in these asylums over a period of 70 years, ending as recently as 1996. To this day, various Christian, Jewish and Islamic fundamentalists continue to subjugate women on account of their fear and hatred of female sexuality and freedom.
    9Anonymous_Maxine

    The other, other kind of terrorism.

    I inadvertently found myself watching a whole string of movies the other day about people being tortured or torturing themselves, without even looking for movies like that. I saw The Magdalene Sisters, Osama, and that IMAX film Everest, all in the same day, and was surprised at their similarities, particularly between the first two. The Magdalene Sisters and Osama are strikingly similar in that they are both about religious terrorism, specifically centered around women. Osama was a look at how the Taliban keeps women under tight control, not allowing them even the tiniest freedom (indeed, women could be arrested and severely punished for such crimes as walking alone in public or speaking to a man, even for such dangerous statements as, 'My father is sick.'), while The Magdalene Sisters is about the Catholic Church in Ireland in disturbingly recent times, severely punishing women as a result of what appears to be the Church's frothing and highly irrational fear of sex.

    The film focuses on the plights of three women in particular, who have all committed 'crimes' of varying nature but who are all punished by being sent to the Magdalene laundry for an indefinite period of time. One girl, Rose, commits the greatest crime having a child out of wedlock, which neither of her parents will even look at. Interestingly, she had the child because an abortion would have been a sin. Bernadette makes the mortal mistake of flirting with boys outside the orphanage she lived in, and Margaret is raped at a family gathering by a cousin, only to be shipped off herself when she reports it to family members.

    At the Magdalene laundry, the girls are subjected to psychological abuse and endless physical toil, all under the old theory that it will cleanse their souls. Some of the women that the three girls in question encounter as they enter the laundry have been there for decades, and they eventually figure out that the only way that they are ever going to get out of there is to escape. Bernadette is especially aware of this, and makes increasing efforts to escape, for which she is brutally punished.

    I am genuinely curious to know what path of logic leads people to believe that such practices in the name of religion can have any beneficial value. The Taliban has taken religious torture to its extreme, debasing themselves and their religion by performing unbelievably inhuman acts in the name of their God, and it appears that, while certainly not on the same level of cruelty, the Catholic Church has performed similar crimes against humanity. That the Catholic Church in Ireland promptly condemned the film is not surprising, but if such things are being committed under its name (and indeed continued being committed well into the late 1990s), I should think that the Church would at least allow the film to be shown so that people would be aware of such abuses, which tarnish the reputation of the Church. I believe that it would have been possible for the Church to defend its own validity while at the same time acknowledging abuses committed in its name, especially if the accusations of cruelty were untrue, although in this case they were not. Running, however, only makes you look guilty.

    The Magdalene laundry is presided over by a nun who is simply evil. She is an elderly lady and generally soft-spoken, but this woman makes the wicked witch of the west look like a prancing schoolgirl. The viciousness of the rest of the Sisters of Mercy radiates off of this woman like some kind of sinister force, delicately but successfully walking the line between illustrating the harshness of a brutal religious regime and creating a movie monster. Her character is human, but she's not far from being a monster.

    It's disheartening to see the things that people do in the name of religion, especially when the crimes are something as little as behaving like a normal person. There are natural and perfectly healthy behaviors that unfortunately are violations of arbitrary religious laws, which are subsequently punished with outlandish punishments like those seen in this movie. Religion is thrown into reverse, causing pain and suffering rather than offering an escape from it, shown in a modern setting that is so backwards that it could just as easily have taken place in the 1600s.
    Joe T

    Very disturbing, very well made, very unfortunate story

    As already well noted, this is a very well crafted film that captures and portrays some of the lowest possibilities of human endeavour. The movie has it's flaws, but drawing empathy from the viewer is not one of them and this it does so well that I was emotionally exhausted by the end of it.

    The religious dimension of the film is an interesting one. Clearly people wanting opportunity for anti-Catholic or anti-religious diatribe would find plenty of fuel here, but I think the more reasonable viewer (religious or not) would see the issues raised for what they are - a perversion and distortion of Christian faith perpetuated and maintained by flawed institutional systems. In this vein, it's not necessarily an anti-religious film and not even anti-establishment as such, but it does show a terrible side of those things and, moreover, illustrate how human beings can take any ideology, belief system etc. and turn it to meet their own personal sadistic and evil ends.

    A sad and horrible film and one that reminds us all of what not do to, how not to treat people and how we should be ever vigilant as a society against evil and cruelty no matter the guise it takes.
    TxMike

    The wardens were dressed as nuns, and the inmates were only children.

    'The Magdalene Sisters' would be a preposterous story, were it not factual. The actual names and circumstances appear to have been changed for the screenplay, but the original 50-minute documentary, filmed likely in the mid 1990s, tells us that everything, and more, happened to these children, virtually imprisoned for such things as having a child out of wedlock, or being sexually assaulted, or simply happening to look pretty. With no way out, they were forced to work long hours for no pay, operating the Magdalene Sisters' commercial laundry business, the last one until 1996. As one character, the old nun, explains, a strong Ireland requires that its men remain strong, so we have to remove temptation. The critic Ebert has a complete review. The only relevant "extra" on the DVD is the documentary, which features old photos and film, plus remarkable interviews with ladies who had been in a Magdalene Sisters asylum in the 1940s through the 1960s, including the three ladies around whom the movie's three main characters were built. A very gripping movie, well-acted.

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      Peter Mullan has said that the film was initially made because victims of Magdalene Asylums had no closure. They hadn't received any recognition, compensation, or apology. Many remained lifelong devout Catholics.
    • Patzer
      When Margaret's brother shows up to take his sister home, he not only knows his way around the facility, but knows exactly which room everyone is in, despite having never set foot in the place.
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      Bernadette: Having a baby's not a crime.

      Rose: Having a baby before you're married is a mortal sin!

      Bernadette: I'd commit any sin, mortal or otherwise, to get the hell out of here.

    • Crazy Credits
      Special thanks to ... all at the Glasgow Film Office.
    • Verbindungen
      Featured in The 2004 IFP/West Independent Spirit Awards (2004)
    • Soundtracks
      The Well Below the Valley
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      Traditional Irish folksong

      Sung by the priest at the wedding

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    • Erscheinungsdatum
      • 9. Januar 2003 (Deutschland)
    • Herkunftsländer
      • Vereinigtes Königreich
      • Irland
    • Offizieller Standort
      • Official site
    • Sprachen
      • Englisch
      • Latein
    • Auch bekannt als
      • En el nombre de Dios
    • Drehorte
      • Dumfries & Galloway, Schottland, Vereinigtes Königreich
    • Produktionsfirmen
      • Scottish Screen
      • UK Film Council
      • Bord Scannán na hÉireann / The Irish Film Board
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    • Bruttoertrag in den USA und Kanada
      • 4.890.878 $
    • Eröffnungswochenende in den USA und in Kanada
      • 84.553 $
      • 3. Aug. 2003
    • Weltweiter Bruttoertrag
      • 21.107.578 $
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