The Song of Songs of Love
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Song of Songs / Angel of Sin |
| Original title | Les Anges du péchés |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1943 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Robert Bresson |
| script | Robert Bresson Jean Giraudoux Dominican Father Raymond Leopold Bruckberger |
| production | Roger Richebé |
| music | Jean-Jacques Grunenwald |
| camera | Philippe Agostini |
| cut | Yvonne Martin |
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The Song of Songs , also known as the Angel of Sin , is a 1943 French religious drama directed by Robert Bresson .
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Anne-Marie Lamaury comes from a middle-class, wealthy family and feels passionately connected to the Catholic faith. For this reason, she really wants to enter a Dominican convent to become a nun. Your sisters in faith have dedicated themselves above all to caring for fallen girls, i.e. prisoners. The novice Anne-Marie desperately wants to take care of Thérèse, who has just been released from prison and is now seeking protection in the monastery. For Anne-Marie, Thérèse is a fallen angel who needs to be saved. The Dominican women do not know about Thérèse's reasons, which are not necessarily selfless, because she has just killed the man who, through his shameful act, had put the innocent convicted in prison and then cheated on her.
Anne-Marie's eagerness to "convert" the young sinner from the prison causes her to disregard certain monastery rules, so that the prioress feels compelled to remove Anne-Marie from the convent again. However, Anne-Marie secretly returns to the cloister garden evening after evening to pray for the salvation of Thérèse in any weather and any temperature. This sacrifice has serious health consequences for Anne-Marie, so that she becomes seriously ill. Until then, Thérèse had exploited Anne-Marie's devotion and tried to manipulate her. However, it seems too late for the already severely weakened novice. Only on Anne-Marie's deathbed does the rushing Thérèse come to her senses. She was deeply impressed by the willingness of the young woman to sacrifice herself and she was finally converted. The repentant sinner allows herself to be arrested by the police without hesitation and resolves to return to this monastery after serving her new prison sentence.
Production notes
The Song of Songs was written in the middle of the German occupation of France and was premiered on June 23, 1943. The film also opened in Germany on January 28, 1949. The German television first broadcast took place on August 16, 1969 under the title Engel der Sünde on ZDF .
René Renoux designed the film structures .
criticism
“Bresson's first full-length feature film does not yet show the ascetic visual style of his later and more mature works; its development seems to be clearly mapped out here. The unadorned dramaturgical structure refers to the essence of what is happening here - as it did later with Bresson - in people themselves. "
“Bresson's first (received) feature film is an expression of artistic endeavors to address theologically oriented human issues such as guilt, grace, freedom and determination. In an unsentimental way he undertakes the religiously credible attempt to make the work of grace and the possibility of salvation visible. "
"The form and content of this early work already suggests Bresson's later idiosyncratic and uncompromising preoccupation with religious subjects and is recommended to open-minded visitors for this topic."
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Song of Songs of Love. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 7, 2017 .
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 93/1949.
Web links
- The Song of Songs in the Internet Movie Database (English)