The Way of a Warrior / Der Pfad des Kriegers

„The only way is to believe in the revolution, which is identical with the believe in the Kingdom, or rather: the Realm of God.“ (Ernesto Cardenal)

Michael N. is a wild child. On his sledge he races down the snowy slopes of the forest, almost unable to brake. He leaves his home in South Tyrol in the early 80s, determined to become a Catholic priest. Eventually he turns his back on Europe and, as a novice, joins the Jesuits in South America, where the Catholic priests have sided with the powerless and the humiliated.

Eight years later, as the head of a Bolivian guerilla troop, he commits terrorist attacks and kidnaps Bolivia’s Coca-Cola boss. Several days later he dies in a hail of police bullets, taking with him the kidnappee and almost every commando member. He leaves behind letters addressed to his family, audio recordings of religious- and Bolivian folk-songs and a stunned, speechless family along with the diary of a kidnapping.

This happens 1990. The wall has come down. The cold war and all the ardent visions that went with it are declared dead and forgotten. No-one is interested in the boy who wanted to become a priest and bring God’s Kingdom to one of the poorest countries in the world. Ten years later Europe is confronted with a new generation of educated idealistic young men: Men who are deadly serious about God’s Kingdom on Earth.