La guerra de los pobres

Year 1524: the peasants revolt in southern Germany. The uprising spreads, rapidly gaining adherents in Switzerland and Alsace. In the midst of the chaos, a figure stands out, that of a theologian, a young man who fights alongside the insurgents. His name is Thomas Müntzer. His life is terrible and romantic. Despite its tragic end, similar to that of his followers, it was a life that deserved to be lived, and therefore deserved to be told by someone. Nobody better than the Goncourt Éric Vuillard award to follow in the footsteps of that preacher who simply wanted justice. Also to portray other characters who, like John Wyclif or John Ball in England two centuries earlier, or Jan Hus, opened a gap and, brandishing the Bible -already translated into vulgar languages, and whose message reaches everyone-, they rose up against the privileged. The spirit that animated those brave incisively questions the reality of our days: today as yesterday, the disinherited, those who were once promised equality in Heaven, ask themselves: why not achieve equality now, on earth?