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When Nathan returns from a business trip, he learns that during his absence, there was an arson attack on his house, and his daughter Recha only managed to escape the flames with the help of a Templar. It is both a stroke of luck and incredible, on one hand because the Templar, a Christian, willingly saved a Jewess, and on the other hand because he himself was spared from execution by the Muslim Sultan, as the only Crusader shortly before.

In search of this Templar, Nathan soon finds himself confronted with his own past, and a dense plot unfolds around the question of the coexistence of the three monotheistic religions, tolerance and its fragility, belonging, community, equality, ultimately culminating in the famous "Ring Parable."

Lessing's work NATHAN THE WISE, published in 1779 and considered one of the main works of the Enlightenment, is set in 1192, after the Muslims, under Sultan Saladin, re-conquered Jerusalem (1187), during the time of the Third Crusade.

Director Max Radestock and his team examine the over 200-year-old material in a distilled version for its relevance today. How far has the idea of Enlightenment come in the last 300 years? Are we living in a tolerant, enlightened age? And what would Nathan say about the current social developments?

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