Vaya con Dios (film)

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Movie
Original title Vaya con Dios - And lead us into temptation
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2002
length 103 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
JMK 6
Rod
Director Zoltan Spirandelli
script Zoltan Spirandelli
David Gravenhorst
Wiebke Jaspersen
production Uli Aselmann
music Detlef Friedrich Petersen
Tobias Gravenhorst
camera Dieter Deventer
cut Magdolna Rokob
occupation

Vaya con Dios - And lead us into temptation is a feature film by the German director Zoltan Spirandelli from 2002. The comedy with clear references to a road movie was made by the production companies . GmbH (Munich) and a.pictures film & tv produktion gmbh (Hamburg) and in 2000 in the Brandenburg monastery Chorin as well as in Saxony (in Saxon Switzerland in the Kirnitzschtal ), Saxony-Anhalt , Thuringia (in Altenburg), Baden-Württemberg and shot in Italy ( Tuscany ).

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Until shortly after the fall of the Wall in the GDR, a monastery of the (fictional) Cantorian order could hold in Brandenburg in Auersberg. Cantorians believe that the Holy Spirit is sound and manifests itself in music, especially in song. Because of this doctrine, the Cantorians were condemned as heretics by the Catholic Church in 1693 and, apart from Brandenburg, could only survive in the mother monastery of Montecerboli in Italy.

But now the community is facing ruin: the monks can no longer hold the dilapidated monastery complex and have to pledge it to a bank. Abbot Stephan, who had always kept his monastery shielded from the world, sees his life's work melt away. On his deathbed, he gave the three remaining brothers the task of rejoining the Italian mother monastery and returning the rules of the order ( Regula Cantorianorum ) there, over whose property there had been a dispute with the mother monastery. The last sentence of the abbot reads: “The order lives in the book.” So Benno, who is crazy about libraries, Tassilo, who comes from an East German farm, and Arbo, who grew up in the monastery, set off to visit their fellow believers in Italy. The young journalist Chiara takes her with her in her convertible. In doing so, they are confronted with a life from which they had previously evaded. Temptations of their own await each of them.

  • For the first time in his life, Arbo met a woman, the young journalist Chiara. This in turn is fascinated by Arbo. They both fall in love. But Arbo fears that his love for Chiara will betray his religious vows .
  • Tassilo lets himself be harnessed back to the farm, which his old mother now runs alone. In field work, he defends his step, he can be as close to God as the intellectual Benno in his studies.
  • Benno only lives for scientific research in ancient writings that gave him access to music and thus to God. When he and Arbo miss their train to Italy, the two Cantorians find shelter with the Jesuit father Claudius Leis, who lures Benno back to the Jesuit order with hidden treasures from the music library.
  • Chiara initially lives a rather funky life as a journalist. With the monastery brothers, especially Arbo, she got to know another side of life.

In the Jesuit convention in Karlsruhe the brothers are put to the decision. Real aim of the convivial Claudius is namely the regulators , which he wants to take as heretical under wraps. Arbo detests the Jesuit cult of Mary, which he finds strange, while Benno lets himself be carried away by the scientific possibilities that open up to him here. With Chiara's support, Arbo and Tassilo manage to win back their brother during a church service. In the song “ Who only lets God rule ”, Arbo and Tassilo figure artistically above the church singing. Benno gets up and joins Arbo and Tassilo's singing.

After a comical chase for the Regula property , the three brothers travel on together again and arrive happily in Montecerboli. Tassilo and Benno bring their talents to the monastery community, while Arbo opts for worldly life. Chiara gives her boring lover the pass in order to - so the conclusion suggests - to live with Arbo.

Music in chronological order

Chants from different eras appear in the film:

  • In the opening credits a bonbarde , composer "Perrinet" sounds .
  • At the beginning of the film, the monks in the Auersberg Monastery sing the motet Tu solus by the Renaissance composer Josquin Desprez .
  • From the new music finds a Pater Noster -Vertonung of Igor Stravinsky - but very overlaid by situational environmental noise - use, stand as the monks between two moving trains on the tracks.
  • Before spending the night in the forest, the monks sing the beginning of the Gospel of Matthew in the Fauxbourdon style of an anonymous old-classical master in a quarry : Genealogia Christi .
  • The song Ooh, na na na , which the monks in the Mercedes convertible criticize on their second drive with Chiara, but still sing along with the refrain, is by DF Petersen, interpreter “Floy”. Originally, the song Nah neh nah should be used by the Belgian band Vaya Con Dios , but the filmmakers did not get the rights for it. The song had to be replaced, only the title of the film remained.
  • As the Gloria song of the holy mass at the Jesuits in Karlsruhe, the three monks sound a three-part sentence by Georg Neumark's Who Only God Let Rule From the 17th century. This sentence was for the film from the organist performing Tobias Gravenhorst processed.
  • In Montecerboli, at the end of the film, Josquin's motet Tu solus is performed again - this time with double voices.
  • The main actress Chiara Schoras sings the song Freaks in the credits (music by DF Petersen, interpreter Cantorians feat. Chiara).

The following people are listed in the credits as soloists on the soundtrack: Meindest Zwart, Henning Voss, Joachim Duske and Thomas Wittig (as well as: Gotthelf, Buchin, Kleinlein and Spirandelli for the second, eight-part Tu solus ). Henning Voss only appears in the songs in which Abbot Stephan is still alive in the film.

Reviews

  • “A convincing, humorous, critical, but not malicious road movie, which by the way also shines with a number of monastic chants. The only downer: the somewhat too clumsy, clichéd depiction of the Jesuit order in the form of Father Claudius. "
  • “'Vaya con dios' is a peculiar mix of piety parable and comedy calculus, of naivety assertion and forced efforts to achieve mainstream appeal. In spite of all narrative dissonances, Spirandellis won four Bavarian film awards for his feature film debut because of his dramatic vigor, touching wit and sympathetic contours. "
  • “Fairytale-like comedy in which good and bad have fixed outlines from the outset. The imaginative, well-played film does have some dramaturgical weaknesses, but with all its entertainment it also conveys tones critical of civilization and recognizes neither the fun society nor the profiteering as the non plus ultra of human existence and action. "( Lexicon of international film )

Awards

  • German Film Award 2002 Film award in gold in the category of best leading actor for Daniel Brühl (for nothing to regret , Vaya con Dios and Das White Rauschen )
  • New Faces Award 2002 in the category of best young actor for Daniel Brühl (for nothing to regret , Vaya con Dios and Das White Rauschen )
  • German Film Critics' Prize 2002 in the Actor category for Daniel Brühl (for Vaya con Dios and Das Weiße Rauschen )
  • Bavarian Film Prize 2001 in the Young Director category for Zoltan Spirandelli
  • Bavarian Film Prize 2001 in the young actress category for Chiara Schoras
  • Bavarian Film Prize 2001 in the category of young actors for Daniel Brühl

Trivia

  • The screenwriter and assistant director David Gravenhorst, who plays Meinrad , is the brother of the organist Tobias Gravenhorst, who wrote the song Who only lets God rule for the film, is responsible for the church music and plays the organist .
  • The director and screenwriter Zoltan Spirandelli not only plays Father Gregor , but also contributes the singing voice of one of the monks in Italy to the second Tu Solus .
  • The church of the Jesuits in Karlsruhe, in which the key scene takes place, is in reality the church of Altenburg Castle in Thuringia. The organist plays the famous Trost organ there.
  • The scenes in the fictional Auersberg Monastery were filmed in the Chorin Monastery in Brandenburg.
  • The former Benedictine monastery of Sant'Anna in Camprena was used as the “Cantorian monastery of Montecerboli” in Tuscany.
  • The real Italian town of Montecerboli in Tuscany is also known as the Valley of the Devil .
  • After the film was released, a concert with the songs from the film took place in Kronberg's Johanneskirche, where the voices of the leading actors were represented. Director Zoltan Spirandelli was also present.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Vaya con Dios . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2010 (PDF; test number: 89 480 V).
  2. ^ Ulrich Behrens: Vaya con Dios. In: “Follow me now, film reviews by Ulrich Behrens”. November 19, 2013, accessed August 17, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Rainer Gansera: Vaya con dios - And don't lead us into temptation. Zoltan Spirandelli's comedy about Cantorian monks. In: "Filmportal.de". Deutsches Filminstitut, March 25, 2002, accessed on August 17, 2014 .
  4. ^ Vaya con Dios. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used