The Goethe Institut Montréal presents as part of its Achtung Film series: Stations of the Cross (Kreuzweg)
Details about the film (from the Goethe Institute Website)
By Dietrich Brüggemann, 2014, 107 min., with: Lea van Acken, Franziska Weisz, Florian Stetter, Lucie Aron, Moritz Knapp, Klaus Michael Kamp, Hanns Zischler.
In German with French subtitles.Silver Bear, Best Script, Berlin International Film Festival, 2014
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Berlin International Film Festival, 2014“Brilliantly measured ! A gem of writing and exactitude.” – Variety
Told in fourteen fixed-angle, single shot tableaus that parallel Christ's journey to his own crucifixion, STATIONS OF THE CROSS is both an indictment of fundamentalist faith and the articulation of an impressionable teen's struggle to find her own path in life. Though from the outside Maria lives in the modern world, her family and her heart are faithful to a Catholic radicalism that requires sacrifice and devotion at every turn.
As she struggles to balance her own desires with the dictates of her family's faith, she makes ever more perilous sacrifices, attempting to please a God she worships unquestioningly in the pious hopes of curing the autistic younger brother she adores.
“A rigorous, stylistically impeccable tale !” – Screen Daily
"A thoughtful and succinctly constructed picture...." – Stephanie Zacharek, The Village Voice
"Brüggemann offers up a darkly comic, contemporary reworking of Catholic doctrine that never shirks away from illuminating both the ridiculous and the sublime." – Daniel Green, Cine-vue
- Goethe-Institut Montréal
