To hell with hosanna

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Movie
German title To hell with hosanna
Original title The Wrath of God
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1972
length 111 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Ralph Nelson
script Jack Higgins ,
Ralph Nelson
production William S. Gilmore ,
Peter Katz
music Lalo Schifrin
camera Álex Phillips Jr.
cut Richard Bracken ,
J. Terry Williams ,
Albert P. Wilson
occupation
synchronization

Hell with Hosanna (Original title: The Wrath of God ) is an American western directed by Ralph Nelson from 1972 with Robert Mitchum , Frank Langella and Rita Hayworth in their final role.

action

The revolution took off in Central America in the 1920s when the Irishman Emmet Keogh was hired by the smuggler Jennings to bring whiskey across the border. Its previous driver was murdered by rebels. Keogh refuses at first, but when Jennings lets him steal his passport and the last of his money, Keogh is forced to take the job. On the way he meets the American priest Oliver Van Horne, whose car has a flat tire. Van Horne gratefully accepts Keogh's help and tells him that he is a missionary and collector of donations for the church. In truth, however, he is a friar who has gone astray and regularly robbed banks.

On arrival at the destination of his trip, Keogh witnesses how several men brutally drag an Indian girl into a bar. When they begin to undress the defenseless young woman, Keogh bravely intervenes. But in no time he is overwhelmed and the drunk men want to see him hanging. When Keogh already has the rope around his neck, Van Horne suddenly appears. He pulls a machine gun out of his pocket and shoots the gang over the heap. Then they learn from the barman that the girl is called Chela and has not uttered a single word since her parents were murdered. The three of them try to escape. But they are soon followed and captured by the rebel leader Colonel Santilla. However, Chela is allowed to return to her tribe.

Keogh is surprised when he meets Jennings again in his cell and learns that he has smuggled no whiskey for him, but all kinds of rifles, pistols and grenades on behalf of Santilla's opponents. Contrary to expectations, Santilla Van Horne, Keogh and Jennings made an offer to eliminate Tomás De La Plata, a young dictator who tyrannized the region and blocked an important trade route. The reward should be their freedom and the $ 50,000 that Van Horne had looted with his robberies. Since they have no other choice, they accept the assignment. While Jennings and Keogh pretend to be inspectors of a mining company for the mission, Van Horne continues to play the priest.

When they arrive in De La Plata's village, which has been converted into a fortress, the supposed inspectors are soon introduced to De La Plata, who is interested in re-opening a long-disused silver mine for profit. When Van Horne begins his work as a clergyman in the village against the express wish of the landlord, he is only supported by Señora De La Plata, the tyrant's mother . The god-fearing widow is dismayed by the tyranny of her son and hopes that the man of God could have a good influence on him. Meanwhile, Van Horne, Keogh and Jennings plan to trap De La Plata and his men and kill them. When De La Plata becomes suspicious, however, his opponents are forced to hide in the local church. To lure them out of there, De La Plata has several hostages kidnapped into his house, and one of them shot every hour until the three desperados decide to give up. But De La Plata does not count on the hatred of his own mother. She pulls a pistol and shoots him. Van Horne can hardly believe it when the bells of the church ring in the newfound freedom.

background

Guanajuato, Mexico, where the film was set

The role of Oliver Van Horne was first offered to Trevor Howard . However, he declined and so Robert Mitchum took over the part. The film was shot in the Mexican cities of Cuernavaca , Guanajuato , Taxco and Mexico City , among others .

As it turned out later, The Wrath of God was the last film in the career of screen icon Rita Hayworth. During the shoot, she had great difficulty memorizing her lines. Every scene with her had to be filmed line by line or she read their dialogue from cards behind the camera. The film crew believed at the time that their alcohol consumption was to blame for their problems. It was not until years later that it became known that she was already suffering from Alzheimer's disease .

Reviews

The opinions of the critics ranged from negative to conciliatory. For Joe Hembus , To the Devil with Hosanna was "an extremely disgusting film that fully justifies all the reservations that Nelson's Soldier Blue has drawn." Thus "the sadistic excesses of the director [...] find no justification as a necessary means to the noble end of denouncing the brutalities of racism and fascism". Instead, they would have turned out to be "stimuli in a vulgar pornography of violence". According to Bridget Byrne of the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner , the MGM film "cannot withstand a scrutiny or cold analysis." Therefore, it should only be viewed “for pure enjoyment, with a certain sense of humor and without romantic feelings”.

Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times described the hell with Hosanna as a "hypocritical, brutal caricature of a movie". As such, the film makes "fun of the violence it allegedly condemns". He overran "instead of captivating" and "becoming a brutal, demoralizing experience". Fortunately, “elegant and beautiful” Rita Hayworth did “well”. It is "regrettable that she is not seen more often", because she gives to the devil with Hosianna "a piece of dignity that the film so urgently needs". According to the lexicon of international films , the film is “an action-packed, colorful and loud parody of western and adventure films that plays jokes with religion and revolution and does not take itself seriously”.

German version

The German dubbed version was created in Berlin in 1972.

role actor Voice actor
Father Oliver Van Horne Robert Mitchum Edgar Ott
Tomás de la Plata Frank Langella Norbert Langer
Senora de la Plata Rita Hayworth Tilly Lauenstein
Col. Santilla John Colicos Klaus Miedel
Delgado Victor Eberg Lothar Blumhagen

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joe Hembus : Das Western-Lexikon , Heyne, Munich 1995, p. 760.
  2. ↑ “This MGM movie, starring Robert Mitchum, doesn't bear close scrutiny or cold analysis. It should be accepted with full-blooded relish, a sense of humor and all your dormant romantic instincts. " Bridget Byrne in Los Angeles Herald-Examiner quoted. after Gene Ringgold: The Films of Rita Hayworth . Citadel Press, Secaucus 1974, p. 250.
  3. ↑ “A hypocritical, brutalizing cartoon of a film. The Wrath of God makes fun of much of the violence it ostensibly deplores. It assaults rather than compels and becomes a brutalizing, demoralizing experience. […] Thankfully, Rita Hayworth, elegant and beautiful, fares pretty well. It is unfortunate she is not on-screen more often because she lends The Wrath of God a note of dignity it so desperately needs. " Kevin Thomas quoted in Los Angeles Times . after Gene Ringgold: The Films of Rita Hayworth . Citadel Press, Secaucus 1974, p. 250.
  4. ↑ To hell with Hosanna. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 24, 2019 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. ↑ cf. synchrondatenbank.de
  6. ↑ To hell with Hosanna. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on October 24, 2019 .