The nun from Monza
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The nun from Monza |
| Original title | La monaca di Monza |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1969 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Eriprando Visconti |
| script |
Giampiero Bona , Edward Bond , Eriprando Visconti |
| production | Silvio Clementelli |
| music | Ennio Morricone |
| camera | Luigi Kuveiller |
| cut | Sergio Montanari |
| occupation | |
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The nun of Monza (original title: La monaca di Monza ) is an Italian drama from 1969 directed by Eriprando Visconti . The script was written by Giampiero Bona and Edward Bond with the director. The free version of the film deals with part of the life story of Virginia de Leyva (1575–1650). The leading roles are cast with Anne Heywood , Antonio Sabato , Hardy Krüger and Tino Carraro . The film had its world premiere on February 26, 1969 in Italy. In Germany he could be seen in the cinema for the first time on January 16, 1970.
action
Virginia, the daughter of a respected house and abbess of a nunnery in the northern Italian city of Monza , grants asylum to the young nobleman Ossio, whose property borders the clergy , even though he stabbed the monastery tax collector to death. Other conditions in the monastery community are also contrary to the rules: some sisters are subservient to the confessor . In order to humiliate the abbess, who appears morally strict, they give Ossio the opportunity to rape Virginia. The consequence of the rape is not, however, a disgust for her tormentor, but she feels more and more attached to him despite cruel self-mortification . In the end, Ossio is caught for his bloody act.
Virginia gives birth to a daughter and is voted out of office as abbess. Now she wants to leave the religious community ; but the family and church forbid her to revoke her vow because of the feared scandal . She then has the means to free Ossio again. He goes into hiding again in the convent, and the two of them live together like a couple under the protection of the sisters who first humiliated Virginia. Finally, however, the bishop intervenes rigorously. Ossio is butchered on the run and Virginia is walled up alive in a windowless cell.
The epilogue to the film tells us that the nun was still living in this gruesome dungeon after ten years and that after thirteen years she was pardoned by the Pope.
criticism
The lexicon of international films succinctly notes that the film is a “melodrama that exploits the historic case of Virginia De Leyda [...] in a cinematic manner.” The Protestant film observer sums up his criticism as follows: “It is right in terms of design The average film - he only emphasizes a few details that are sensational for this milieu - offers nothing that could stimulate the discussion of today's or past interdependence of religion, church and society. Only possible for adults. "
Web links
- The nun of Monza in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Movie poster on filmposter-archiv.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Source: Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 31/1970, pp. 35 to 36
- ↑ Lexikon des Internationale Films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 2794.