Vino Santo - Long live love, long live wine
| Movie | |
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| German title | Vino Santo - Long live love, long live wine |
| Original title | Vino Santo |
| Country of production | Austria / Germany |
| original language | German , Italian |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Xaver Schwarzenberger |
| script | Ulrike Schwarzenberger |
| production | Claudio Carrer |
| music | Peer ravens |
| camera | Xaver Schwarzenberger |
| cut | Helga Borsche |
| occupation | |
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Vino Santo - Long Live Love, long live the wine is an Austrian-German television - comedy from 1999. The couple Schwarzenberger occupied the comedy with Italian-Bavarian-Austrian actors.
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Brief summary
Gioia "Joe" Altenburger is the daughter of the Viennese tax advisor Georg and the winemaker's daughter Serafina, who lives in Italy. Gioia is supposed to marry Harald Winkler, the son of a notary, so that the two offices of the fathers merge. The young woman has always subordinated herself to the will of her family and this time doesn't dare to break out of the corset of her family with her great love Max. Everyone travels to Friuli in a rented bus to take part in a big family festival at the Nonno's winery. Nobody suspects that the grandfather wants to withdraw and bequeath the property to his granddaughter, who would then have to stay in Italy. Coincidentally, Max is also on the estate as an intern, and the personal relationships that have become entrenched are suddenly mixed up. Georg's lover Helene has to watch as the married couple Georg and Serafina get closer, Gioia believes that her mother has a relationship with Max, who in turn tries to talk her daughter out of the bourgeois Harald. Harald and Max quarrel about Gioia. When the Nonno fakes a heart attack, the main participants become aware of their true emotions.
Full summary
The 23-year-old Gioia Altenburger leads a less joyful life full of a sense of duty and self-denial. Your only purpose in life is apparently to please everyone. It goes with the fact that she is simply called "Joe" by friends and her Viennese relatives, as a sign of suppressed joie de vivre (Italian: gioia ). Her childhood dream was to become a gardener, but for the sake of her father Georg Altenburger she studied tax law and then joined his law firm. But that's not all, Dad's plans go much further: Gioia should meet his future junior partner Harald "Harry" Winkler, son of his notary friend Dr. Winkler, get married and seal the merger of the two paternal law firms. This Harry is an arrogant snob par excellence, for whom the professional success component is completely sufficient as the basis of the envisaged marital relationship. Harry just leaves feelings cold, and even his sister Steffi, Gioia's best friend, considers him a calculating bore who is absolutely incapable of really loving.
Steffi is all the more pleased when Gioia falls in love with a young wine expert at first sight one evening in a wine bar. Max, the host's son, has just brilliantly demonstrated his skills at a blind tasting. When he takes off the scarf with which his eyes were blindfolded, their eyes cross, do not separate from each other, and both leave the bar together without exchanging a single word. After a few hours floating in the seventh heaven of love, the cold shower comes: Max is going abroad the next morning to complete his training as a winemaker, but Gioia does not have the courage to give in to his urge and accompany him. Your sense of duty to your father is simply overwhelming. She leaves Max crying.
Ten years earlier something similar had happened between her parents: Gioia's mother, Serafina Salvini, had returned to Italy after the sudden death of her brother in order to take his place with her father, Nonno (Italian grandfather), in the management of the “La pergola “(Italian vine arbor). At that time it was she who asked her husband Georg to leave Vienna to stay by her side. But giving up the law firm was out of the question for Georg, and he also enforced his claim to ownership of their daughter with all severity. Nevertheless, there was never a divorce, much to the annoyance of Georg's "housekeeper" Helene, who had long been hoping to legalize her family position in the Altenburger house. Helene has a simple mind and lives according to the motto “Do good and talk about it”, but rarely succeeds in doing well what is meant well.
When Nonno was in hospital because of a heart attack and wanted nothing more than to invite the whole family to the winery to celebrate his 80th birthday, which coincides with the grandparents' golden wedding, Serafina calls Vienna. The decision is made quickly, and the supposed bridegroom and future parents-in-law are also part of the tour company, who set out on the trip to Friuli two months later in the rented bus. The air is already charged with tension when she arrives, as Serafina, strictly Catholic, assigns the unmarried, especially Harry and Helene, separate rooms. She quickly senses how unhappy the engagement with Harry really makes her daughter, but good persuasion cannot do much against Gioia's iron self-discipline.
As luck would have it, Max also lives on “La pergola”, where he did an internship. His work was so well received by Nonno and Serafina that they both wanted to keep him there. He is also invited to the big family celebration without anyone suspecting of his prevented love. Steffi sees him again first and tells Gioia about it immediately, but when they both burst into the kitchen, Serafina and Max are in each other's arms. What is no more than a friendly gesture becomes, in Gioia's eyes, bitter betrayal by his own mother. One more time the feelings run away with her.
The next day the big festival takes place, which is celebrated with musicians and dancers and a service in the open air. In order to keep up appearances, all discrepancies and discrepancies between Gioia, Max, Harry, Serafina, Georg and Helene are initially disguised with fake politeness. But that doesn't go well for long. When the Nonno, in his celebratory speech, completely surprisingly bequeathed the winery to his granddaughter and asked her to stay, it almost came to a head. Only through a trick - Nonno pretends to have another heart attack - he manages to stay in control. While Gioia promises to take over the winery "on his deathbed", competitors Max and Harry start a fight. Now at last Gioia knows who her heart belongs to and where her place is: She throws herself between the brawlers, dislikes Harry and asks Max to run the winery together with her. Although this decision thwarted her father's original plans, Georg, too, was aware of his re-awakened, never-extinct love for Serafina with good wine and southern sunshine, who for their part kept “La pergola” in the safe hands of Max and Gioia White. So, in the end, everything works out for the best, as the Nonno wished, who quietly and peacefully closes his eyes forever.
criticism
"An amusing TV comedy by TV veteran Xaver Schwarzenberger with a convincing cast, especially Anna Galiena as Serafina and Helen Zellweger in the role of Gioia Salvini."
“Vino Santo 'is an entertaining comedy that seems to be taken from the middle of life in many scenes. With tongue-in-cheek humor, Schwarzenberger depicts everyday scenes that most people have probably already experienced in one way or another. An excellent actor guard does the rest, even if Anna Galiena as Gioia's mother Serafina sometimes seems a bit stiff. What is striking is that, despite the title 'Vino Santo', the amber-colored Italian dessert wine that is often served with cantuccini (almond biscuits) does not even appear on the table. "
"Comedy about the dichotomy between middle-class order and southern laissez-faire, and about a young woman who has long since taken her own path beyond family tradition because of love."
Web links
- Vino Santo - Long Live Love, long live the wine in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Prisma.de , Filmkritik (last accessed on May 23, 2007).
- ^ Tagesspiegel.de , film review by Simone Leinkauf (last accessed on September 5, 2007).
- ↑ Vino Santo - Long live love, long live wine. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .