Divine

Also known as The Big Other

Divine is a 2020 German-Italian romantic comedy film directed by Jan Schomburg.

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Divine (German: Der göttliche Andere) is a 2020 German-Italian romantic comedy film directed by Jan Schomburg.

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Plot

The plot follows Gregor Spring, a television reporter who travels to Italy to cover the upcoming election of the new Pope. While in the beautiful Vatican City, he falls for Maria, who is set to become a nun in just a few days. As the two grow closer, strange events happen to Gregor and he begins to think even God himself is trying to keep them apart.

Cast

Callum Turner as Gregory

Matilda De Angelis as Maria

Anna Bonaiuto as Teodora

Mark Davison as Robert

Gianni Meurer as the chief physician

Barbara Ricci as the nurse

Juliane Elting as Grazie Oscura

Eddie Osei as the Pope

Lewis Hart as Ian

Serra Yilmaz as the taxi driver

Pino Ammendola

Production

Filming took place over five weeks in Rome and Cologne.

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Also known as The Big Other

Notable quotes

“In divine works, everything, even obstacles, are means.”
— Joseph de Maistre, Considerations on France (1796), Ch. I
“What moments divine, what rapture serene.”
— Cole Porter, in "Begin the Beguine" in Jubilee (1935).
“Anything divine must come to us in worldly clothing, and so it comes to us altered. The divine is like rain striking the earth, and all our efforts at godliness are therefore muddy—all but those few seconds of complete inundation, the moments that the mystics describe, when we are nothing but rain.”
— Kim Stanley Robinson, Book 9: "Nsara", The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)
“Consider lost all the time in which you do not think of divinity.”
— Sextus the Pythagorean, Selected Sentences, #13
“You seem, Antiphon, to imagine that happiness consists in luxury and extravagance. But my belief is that to have no wants is divine; to have as few as possible comes next to the divine; and as that which is divine is supreme, so that which approaches nearest to its nature is nearest to the supreme.”
— Xenophon, Socrates in Memorabilia, 1.6.1

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