Stations of the Cross (2014) ( Kreuzweg )

Stations of the Cross (2014) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Kreuzweg
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
German ( DTS-HD Master Audio )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
110 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2014 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Dietrich Brüggemann

Written By:
Anna Brüggemann

Actors:
Lucie Aron ..... Bernadette
Anna Brüggemann ..... Ärztin
Michael Kamp ..... Vater
Moritz Knapp ..... Christian
Birge Schade ..... Sportlehrerin
Florian Stetter ..... Pater Weber
Sven Taddicken ..... Krankenpfleger
Lea van Acken ..... Maria
Franziska Weisz ..... Mutter
Georg Wesch ..... Thomas
Ramin Yazdani ..... Arzt
Hanns Zischler ..... Bestatter

Synopsis:

Maria is 14 years old. Her family is part of a fundamentalist Catholic community. Maria lives her everyday life in the modern world, yet her heart belongs to Jesus. She wants to follow him, to become a saint and go to heaven - just like all those holy children she's always been told about. So Maria goes through 14 stations, just like Jesus did on his path to Golgatha, and reaches her goal in the end. Not even Christian, a boy she meets at school, can stop her, even if in another world, they might have become friends, or even more. Left behind is a broken family that finds comfort in faith, and the question if all these events were really so inevitable. STATIONS OF THE CROSS is an indictment and, at the same time, the legend of a saint. It's a story of religion, devotion and radical faith, and the film itself comes along just as radical as the subject matter, telling the story in only 14 fixed-angle long shots, allowing the viewer to contemplate the interactions on screen in an entirely different way than in a traditional film.

Told in fourteen fixed-angle, single shot, individual 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.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 02 March, 2015.