THE DIVINE ORDER (Die Gottliche Ordnung) will screen at Plaza Frontenac Cinema (Lindbergh Blvd. and Clayton Rd, Frontenac, MO 63131) as part of this year’s St. Louis International Film Festival.

From the opening of “The Divine Order,” the rollicking German-language Swiss drama from writer and director Petra Volpe, the family is painted as manufactured. Theresa (Rachel Braunschweig) asks her ...

On the world stage, Switzerland is often thought of as a neutral, progressive and all-around first-rate country—so much so, that it may surprise some to learn that Swiss women only got the vote in ...

Marie Leuenberger ('The Circle') stars as a housewife fighting for women's right to vote in 1971 Switzerland in Petra Volpe's 'The Divine Order,' Switzerland's foreign-language Oscar submission. By ...

There is a small scene in "The Divine Order" in which a mother announces to her husband, sons and nasty live-in father-in-law that from now on they can get their own milk and take their own dishes to ...

In Switzerland women were denied the vote until 1971, a situation dramatized in this cogent, earnest feature from writer-director Petra Volpe. A housewife and mother of two boys (Marie Leuenberger) ...

"Sometimes you need luck as a director. We always think it's all about control and it is a lot about control when you direct a movie, but it's also about things that you can't foresee." There's a film ...

It might surprise you to learn, in Petra Volpe’s “The Divine Order,” that Switzerland didn’t allow women’s suffrage until 1971. That’s eight years after Iran and Morocco, nine years after Algeria, and ...