The Seventh Room () is a 1995 Italian-Hungarian biography film based on the life of Edith Stein.
Plot
Edith Stein grew up in a devout Jewish family round the turn of the century in Breslau. Already at a young age she was interested in philosophy, which she later studied in Göttingen and Freiburg. When Edith converted to the Catholic faith, most of the contact with her family breaks off. In the 1920s, Edith Stein worked as a teacher at the St. Magdalena girls' school in Speyer.
After the rise of the Nazis and the beginning persecution of the Jews put an end to her teaching activities, Edith joined the Discalced Carmelite order's convent in Cologne-Lindenthal in 1933, where she took the name Sister Teresia Benedicta a Cruce. It was difficult for her to acclimatise herself, but as a nun she found her personal fulfilment. Shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, she was sent to a conventn in the Netherlands. When the persecution of the nazi's increased, Edith was deported to Auschwitz and murdered in the gas chamber there in 1942.