Terribly moralistic, exploitative, one-dimensional and on top of all that poorly made drama, an adaptation of the usual Simmel nonsense. Trash is the name for this kind of drama; there is a theme as basis (traditionalism against progress), but nothing comes of out of it.
The directing has no feeling of how drama must be convincingly executed, the story telling totally fails and there are a number of occasions where the cutting between scenes is extremely bad. The final scenes should probably have been the apotheosis, but the film simply fizzles out: suddenly there is the word "ENDE", is it really over?
A real dud; even the Gregorian chants of the monks are terrible.
