Thanks aunt

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Movie
German title Thank you, Aunt.
Movie title:
The Devil's Bliss
Original title Grace zia
Country of production Italy
original language Italian
Publishing year 1968
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Salvatore Samperi
script Salvatore Samperi
Sergio Bazzini
production Enzo Doria
music Ennio Morricone
camera Aldo Scavarda
cut Silvano Agosti
occupation

Thank you, aunt (original title: Grazie zia ) is an Italian feature film, namely the debut film by the then 24-year-old director Salvatore Samperi from 1968 in black and white. He also wrote the script. The film premiered in 1968 at the Cannes International Film Festival . In the Federal Republic of Germany you could see him for the first time on March 17, 1969 in the television program of the ARD . It only came to the cinema on December 12, 1969 under the title Des Teufels Beatigkeit .

content

In protest against the upper class environment he hated, Alvise, the 17-year-old son of an industrialist, simulates paralysis of the legs. Tied to a wheelchair, which he only leaves in unobserved moments, Alvise tyrannizes his fellow men and sneaks their pity. During an extended absence of his parents, he comes to see his aunt, his mother's sister. Lea is an attractive, fully emancipated doctor who, in Alvise's eyes, is the personification of the hypocritical upper class that he has declared war on. Because Lea loves the apparently helpless boy, she is a welcome victim for the sadistic-erotic games of the neurotic Alvise. He forces the young woman to become more and more dependent, forcing her to break with her long-time lover, a former resistance fighter and communist journalist; he suppresses it because he hates it. But this hatred is only personal and not, which would be obvious, politically motivated. After defeating Stefano, Alvise continues his devilish game with his aunt. He pushes Lea so far that she feels the need for incestuous union with her tormentor. But instead of destroying them by fulfilling this desire, Alvise forces them to give him, the sick, the suffering, the redeeming lethal injection ( euthanasia ).

criticism

The lexicon of international film drew the following conclusions: ". Psychologically and unconvincing in the milieu drawing Samperi reached its provocative intent only conditionally" The Evangelical movie watchers , however, has a better opinion: "Recognize value skillfully and consistently made debut of a young Italian, whose provocative and agitation intent is only partially achieved. Recommended as a contribution to the discussion from the age of 18. "

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Individual evidence

  1. a b Source: Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 138/1969, pp. 134 to 135
  2. rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 277