I got a feedback that the ending is too dark. The script is updated with two post-credits scenes to also give some happy vibe at the end:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/bser3q1toku52sf/luther.screenplay.forpapercopy.pdf?dl=0
The pen writes Martin Luther. The angle and the lighting
reminds of the Pope signing the Luther's excommunication
letter. The movie credits shows The Reformer title below the
Martin Luther signature on the letter.
We see Luther's hand trying to put the pen back into the ink
jar. Luther faints and the ink jar falls over. The ink is
surprisingly red; it spreads over the paper covering the
signature.
FADE TO RED
The credits start showing. After only two pages of credits we
see the following post-credit scene.
INT. CASTLE'S ROOM, DAY
CLOSE UP: "On the Jews and Their Lies" is printed on the
fancy cover of a printed book.
Pfaffinger, smiling, is pleased with the book. He puts the
book in the book shelf as he says:
PFAFFINGER (O.S.)
What a great man!
Pfaffinger turns back to the room. We see a dinner table with
all kinds of fancy foods and fruits on it. The guests include
a couple of priests, some military men, and some from the
king's court.
PFAFFINGER (O.S.)
Gentlemen, where were we?
FADE TO BLACK
The credits resumes. After a beat we hear a 9-YEAR-OLD GIRL's
voice over on credits reading parts of Luther's Invocavit
Sermons.
GIRL (V.O.)
There must also be love, and through
love we must do to one another.
KATHARINA VON BORA (V.O.)
(interrupting)
unto one another
GIRL (V.O.)
unto one another as God has done unto
us through faith.
The credits breaks again with another post-credit scene.
INT. LUTHER'S LIVING ROOM, DAY
Some little girls are sitting around the table. Katharina von
Bora, Luther's wife, is teaching them how to read Invocavit
Sermons. Her eyes are red indicating that she has been crying
a lot. One of them, a 9-year-old girl, is reading it out loud
from worn out papers. The papers look like they are from 20-
30 years ago.
GIRL
For without love faith is nothing.
KATHARINA VON BORA
Good. Sera.
Camera stars zooming out and leaving the room.
SERA (O.S.)
Dear friends, the kingdom of God, and
we are that kingdom, consists not in
speech or in words, but in _deeds_, in
_works_ and _exercises_. God does not
want hearers and repeaters of words,
By now the camera is showing Luther's empty chair with his
folded outfit sitting on it. FREEZE ON the empty chair.
SERA (O.S.)
but doers and followers who exercise
themselves in the faith that worketh
by love. For a faith without love is
not enough.
The End.