Absolution (1978)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | absolution |
| Original title | absolution |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1978 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Anthony Page |
| script | Anthony Shaffer |
| production |
Elliott Kastner Danny O'Donovan |
| music | Stanley Myers |
| camera | John Coquillon |
| cut | John Victor Smith |
| occupation | |
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Absolution is a 1978 British thriller directed by Anthony Page .
action
Father Goddard is a teacher at St. Anthony's Catholic Boys' Boarding School and leads his class with a hard hand. One day the tramp Blakey shows up looking for work. Goddard harshly rejects him. His favorite student Benji Stanfield can do almost anything, but the handicapped Arthur Dyson, who always questions many things critically, is treated very badly and contemptuously by Benji and Goddard.
While running through the forest during the sports lesson, the boys discover Blakey who is camping there illegally. Benji feels drawn to his life stories and from then on visits him secretly. Looking for recognition, Dyson suggests covering him in front of Father Goddard, but Benji refuses.
Father Goddard finds out what Benji is doing behind his back and forbids him from dealing with Blakey. Nevertheless, Benji continues to seek out the tramp. When he meets him with a woman, they instigate the boy to confess to Father Goddard sex games with them that did not even take place. Because of the confessional secret, Goddard cannot punish him. After Blakey harshly rejects Benji on his next visit, Benji raises a stone at the tramp. Benji goes to confession again and confesses to Goddard about Blakey's murder. He tells him the place where he has trodden it. Goddard rushes there, disturbed, but only discovers a pumpkin head while digging it out. It was a bad prank. A little later, in a new confession, Benji confesses the real murder of Blakey and now the priest actually finds the tramp's body. Horrified, he increasingly turns away from Benji, but cannot do anything because of the confessional secret.
When they meet again in the confessional, Benji announces the murder of Dyson, because he is following him like a burdock and doesn't deserve to live. Full of fear, Goddard goes looking for Dyson when he is missing from class the next day. In the forest he opens a grave and discovers a leg with Dyson's brace. Unexpectedly, Benji appears, whereupon Goddard hatefully kills him with the spade.
The clergyman visits the chapel and asks God for forgiveness when he suddenly hears Benji's voice. However, he recognizes Dyson, who confesses to him that he has been impersonating Benji's voice since the confession of the murder of Blakey and that it was all a perfidious plan to get Benji and Goddard out of the way. Father Goddard turns away in horror and utter despair.
criticism
"Abstruse, moderately staged, but suspenseful thriller, which constructs its plot with all means towards an amazing effect, but loses all credibility and builds up a morbid Catholic milieu to describe a cynical, godless world."
“English thriller from the secluded world of a Catholic boarding school, the tension of which develops gradually but suction-like. World star Richard Burton delivers the great portrait of the deceived clergyman. "
Web links
- Absolution in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Absolution in the online film database
- Absolution in the German dubbing index
Individual evidence
- ↑ absolution. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ absolution