SummaryIn 1971 Switzerland, despite the worldwide social upheavals of the previous decade, women are still denied the right to vote. When unassuming and dutiful housewife Nora (Marie Leuenberger) is forbidden by her husband to take a part-time job, her frustration leads to her becoming the poster child of her town’s suffragette movement. Her newfound ce... Read More
Directed By:Petra Biondina Volpe
Written By:Petra Biondina Volpe
The Divine Order
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Oct 24, 2017
85
Volpe’s specificity with each characterization, including many of the men, humanizes what would otherwise be an issue-driven movie, and lends it an immediacy and resonance that fuels audience sympathies, not to mention understanding.
Nov 28, 2017
75
The movie still holds power, mostly thanks to Leuenberger’s arresting, self-contained performance as Nora. She plays the character as an enigma, the last person you’d expect to lead a cause.
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Dec 19, 2017
8
This is a very enjoyable film centered around the women's suffrage movement in Switzerland in 1971(!) Although this is a political film, it also emphasizes the individual personalities of both the women and men in a small town in Switzerland, and shows their personal growth. There is both drama and comedy, and although the ending is generally happy, not all relationships survive - making it more true to life.
Jul 13, 2021
6
(Mauro Lanari)
1) Well represented historical confusion between universal suffrage, equality of the sexes (today gender equality), sexual emancipation and rebelliousness for its own sake and self-destructive (from Hendrix to Joplin).
2) The follow-up of the ebb of a part of those feminist instances is missing: "If you are not a liberal when you are young, you have no heart, and if you are not a conservative when you are old, you have no brain".
3) Half a century later we are overwhelmed by so much more serious problems that rethinking about those battles is endearing.
Nov 3, 2017
75
The Divine Order plays up the fun of feminist empowerment with its anthems (You Don't Own Me, Respect), and lightens the tension with a modern-woman makeover for Nora.
Oct 26, 2017
70
The Divine Order (Die Goettliche Ordnung) is an entertaining, if largely predictable, story of an individual swept up in the tide of history.
Apr 29, 2017
70
Though the film’s feel-good construction undercuts its ability to surprise, Petra Volpe’s cine-history lesson remains a mainstream crowd-pleaser adept at inspiring and amusing in equal measure.
Nov 29, 2017
50
The chief weakness in the movement, and in the film as well, is Nora herself. Played sweetly by Leuenberger, Nora is endearing but hardly embodies the spirit of her Ibsen namesake.
Oct 22, 2017
50
The film's performances and narrative flounder to strike the right balance between comedy and drama.
Feb 24, 2026
4
여성운동은 누가, 뭐가 싫어서 하는게 아니라좋은 것을 위해 하는 것이다.한스와 노라가 진심으로 사랑하는 걸 보여주면서 영화는 그 누런 오해와 편견을 지워준다.200202 (2.0)-1. 태평양 같았던 노라. 빛이 들지않는 저 태평양 바닥에서 살아가는 아름다운 물고기.2. 여성참정권을 거부하는 여성은 무슨 심리였을까?3. 메리포핀스를 제외한 여성참정권 소재 영화가 다 비슷한 플롯을 띈다. 언어와 인종에 무관하겨 모두 다 같은 부조리에서 분투했다는 의미겠지. 그럼에도 영화적 재미는 아쉬웠다.4. 스스로의 몸을 사랑하라고 알려주는 여성 교육이 신박했다.5. 여자에게만 특별한 자식사랑이 있다고 강조하지마. 단어로 만든 구속복일 뿐이거늘6. 베르니 할머니의 죽음이라는 장치와 참정권 획득이 훅 들어왔다. 작위적임에도 눈물이 나는 건 어쩔수가 없었다ㅠ
Production Company:
- Zodiac Pictures
- Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF)
- SRG - SSR
- Teleclub AG
- Bundesamt für Kultur (BAK)
- Zürcher Filmstiftung
- Fonds Culturel de Suissimage
- Canton of Aargau
- Stadt & Kanton Luzern
- Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden
- WillowHouse Films
- Zodiac Pictures International
Release Date:Oct 27, 2017
Duration:1 h 36 m
Awards
Swiss Film Prize
• 3 Wins & 7 Nominations
Tribeca Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 4 Nominations
Film Club's The Lost Weekend
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
