The Vow (film)
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| Original title | the vow |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Dominik Graf |
| script | Count Dominik Markus Busch |
| production | Colonia Media |
| music |
Florian van Volxem Sven Rossenbach |
| camera | Michael Wiesweg |
| cut | Claudia Wolscht |
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The Vow is a German feature film by director Dominik Graf from 2007 . The screenplay is based on the 1999 novel of the same name by Kai Meyer . The film premiered on October 26, 2007 at the 41st Hof International Film Festival.
Historical background
The poet and bon vivant Clemens Brentano wants to give up his bohemian lifestyle. Converted to Catholicism , he made general confession in 1817 . In this contemplative phase, his poetry cleverly combines contemporary elements of early romanticism with religious and erotic themes , as shown by the poetry dedicated to Luise Hensel (including O just keep your heart silent and I walked through the desert ) . So it was no coincidence that he went to Dülmen in Westphalia in 1818 , where he met Anna Katharina Emmerick , who confirmed his decision to completely renounce worldly affairs and give herself completely to the “wonderful spirituality”. He dissolves his Berlin household and donates the auctioned proceeds to charitable purposes in order to record the visions of the nun on her sick bed in forty folio volumes in Dülmen for the next six years . As has been shown in investigations that were undertaken during Anna Katharina Emmerick's first beatification process , Brentano mixed her statements with her own comments and poetic passages in his notes, which is why it is difficult, based on current knowledge, to evaluate the content of these visions.
action
Since 1813 the body of the nun Anna Katharina Emmerick has had the stigmata of Jesus Christ who died on the cross . The wounds on the feet, hands, chest and forehead bleed at certain intervals. Anna Katharina Emmerick describes visions of events from the Bible. Her sister Gertrud, who does not want the bedridden woman to be gazed at like an exotic animal, can hardly ward off the many believers who want to visit Anna Katharina Emmerick. Clemens Brentano is initially skeptical whether the wounds are real and whether the nun actually feeds on nothing except the host at communion and liquids such as milk. But her doctor and her confessor assure the authenticity of her information. Brentano settles down in the house of Father Lambert, who also took in Anna Katharina Emmerick, records her visions, edits the text and reads it to her. Although he no longer describes himself as a poet, but as a "writer", he cannot help but emphasize the dramaturgical aspects of the descriptions, but Anna Katharina Emmerick asks him not to invent anything. Clemens Brentano quickly falls under her spell. At the end of 1818, under his influence, he brought the pastor's daughter Luise Hensel, whom he had been courting for some time, to work as a housemaid for Freiin von Westenfeldt on her estate in Horstmar . But Luise Hensel makes it unmistakably clear to him that she neither married him nor wants to enter into a relationship with him. During a visit to Berlin, where Clemens Brentano had his valuable library auctioned for charitable purposes, he was offered a lot of money to expose Anna Katharina Emmerick as a fraud, but he refused the request. Even a commission of the Prussian state , which investigated the case on site for a week in 1819, could not explain the stigmata. During pneumonia , Clemens Brentano sees in a feverish dream how Anna Katharina Emmerick - who can barely straighten up in bed - quickly runs up the last steps of the stairs in St. Viktor's bell tower and rings the bells naked. While still in the sick bed, he had an affair with sister Gertrud, whom he made pregnant. He never officially confesses to his child, only the entry in the baptismal register , which he is allowed to make as godfather , reveals his paternity.
criticism
"A formally and intellectually impressive, also convincing performance film, which describes a society in which the individual with his longing for earthly happiness, his suffering and his questions about meaning hardly has any leeway."
Production background
The vow was filmed on behalf of WDR and Arte in 2007 in Billerbeck , Soest and Münster .
Web links
- The vow in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- TV programs