Fourteen-year-old Maria is a typical teenage girl except that, since her family are devoted Christians, her heart belongs first and foremost to God. The girl wants to do what is right according to her religion, but she’s constantly surrounded by various temptations and seductions.
The drama, which observes the role of religion in a person’s life, shows Maria’s life in 14 scenes, matching the fourteen Stations of the Cross on Jesus’s path to Mount Kolkata. In these fourteen scenes, the camera remains stationary (with a few exceptions), just observing what is going on, and this is more telling and appropriate than the usual fast-paced editing.
Just as Ulrich Seidl dealt with the question of various ways of perceiving religion in his drama "Paradise: Faith" a few years ago, Dietrich Brüggemann too has created an intriguing story that for atheists offers delicate yet painful satire on religion, while religious people will probably see it as one person’s total dedication to the Lord. It is perhaps because of this possibility of interpreting the film in two different ways, depending on one’s religious and cultural background, that the film won the Best Script Award at Berlinale.
PÖFF / Jaanus Noormets
Germany 2014
Stations of the Cross
Kreuzweg
MS12
Genre
Drama
Director
Dietrich Brüggemann
Run time
1h 47min
Cast
Lea van Acken, Franziska Weisz, Florian Stetter, Lucie Aron, Moritz Knapp
Genre
Drama
Director
Dietrich Brüggemann
Run time
1h 47min
Cast
Lea van Acken, Franziska Weisz, Florian Stetter, Lucie Aron, Moritz Knapp
Fourteen-year-old Maria is a typical teenage girl except that, since her family are devoted Christians, her heart belongs first and foremost to God. The girl wants to do what is right according to her religion, but she’s constantly surrounded by various temptations and seductions.
The drama, which observes the role of religion in a person’s life, shows Maria’s life in 14 scenes, matching the fourteen Stations of the Cross on Jesus’s path to Mount Kolkata. In these fourteen scenes, the camera remains stationary (with a few exceptions), just observing what is going on, and this is more telling and appropriate than the usual fast-paced editing.
Just as Ulrich Seidl dealt with the question of various ways of perceiving religion in his drama "Paradise: Faith" a few years ago, Dietrich Brüggemann too has created an intriguing story that for atheists offers delicate yet painful satire on religion, while religious people will probably see it as one person’s total dedication to the Lord. It is perhaps because of this possibility of interpreting the film in two different ways, depending on one’s religious and cultural background, that the film won the Best Script Award at Berlinale.
PÖFF / Jaanus Noormets
Germany 2014
The drama, which observes the role of religion in a person’s life, shows Maria’s life in 14 scenes, matching the fourteen Stations of the Cross on Jesus’s path to Mount Kolkata. In these fourteen scenes, the camera remains stationary (with a few exceptions), just observing what is going on, and this is more telling and appropriate than the usual fast-paced editing.
Just as Ulrich Seidl dealt with the question of various ways of perceiving religion in his drama "Paradise: Faith" a few years ago, Dietrich Brüggemann too has created an intriguing story that for atheists offers delicate yet painful satire on religion, while religious people will probably see it as one person’s total dedication to the Lord. It is perhaps because of this possibility of interpreting the film in two different ways, depending on one’s religious and cultural background, that the film won the Best Script Award at Berlinale.
PÖFF / Jaanus Noormets
Germany 2014
Info
Rating
Under 12 Not Recommended
Production year
2014
Global distributor
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Local distributor
Pimedate Ööde Filmifestival MTÜ
In cinema
11/17/2014