The Divine Order
Directed by Petra Volpe
2016Feature96 minSweden14A
In a quiet Swiss village in 1971, a young housewife surprises everyone, herself included, by joining the fight for women's right to vote.
Synopsis
1971: Nora is a young housewife and mother, living in a quaint little village with her husband and their two sons. The Swiss countryside is untouched by the major social upheavals the movement of 1968 has brought about. Nora’s life is not affected either; she is a quiet person who is liked by everybody – until she starts to publicly fight for women’s suffrage, which the men are due to vote on in a ballot on February 7, 1971.
The director
Petra Volpe
Petra Volpe is a Swiss writer-director. The Divine Order, her comedy about Swiss women winning the vote in 1971, won awards at Tribeca and was Switzerland's Oscar submission.
