The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film as a Swiss submission. [1 ] It was also entered into the 31st Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear for an outstanding single achievement…
St. Ulrich's Priory in the Black Forest (St. Ulrich im Schwarzwald) was a priory of Cluny Abbey (in Burgundy) founded in the valley of the River Möhlin in the Black Forest in about 1083.