Synopsis
The Divine Order (Die göttliche Ordnung, 2017) is a Swiss drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Petra Volpe. Nora is a soft-spoken housewife in a sleepy mountain village, mother to two boys and wife to an easygoing man. The upheavals of the late 1960s rolled past her canton, and at first she has no quarrel with that.
Everything shifts as the country heads toward a ballot: the men are about to vote on whether women may vote at all. Nora, whom nobody ever took for a troublemaker, suddenly stands up and speaks. Neighbors glare, her husband fumes, and the church reminds everyone of the "divine order" that keeps a woman at the stove. Yet she gathers a handful of village women around her, and a small rebellion starts to grow. Marie Leuenberger plays Nora, a turn that earned her the best actress prize at Tribeca.
The story builds out from the real referendum of February 7, 1971 — the day Switzerland finally let women cast a ballot, long after most of Europe. Warm, funny and quietly furious, it's a film about the price of ordinary nerve, ideal for anyone who likes history told through one person's face. Stream The Divine Order (2017) online on iFILM.
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