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6.4/10   30 votes
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Director:
Writer:
Akiko Hitomi (writer)
Release Date:
1 November 2002 (Germany) more
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Plot:
Mona, a young student of law in Frankfurt, Germany, is the daughter of a highly successful lawyer. Her future is planned neatly... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Kathrin Kühnel ... Mona Thiele
Barbara Focke ... Schwester Bénédicta
Stephan Kampwirth ... Pfarrer Martin
Nicolas von Wackerbarth ... Marco
Maren Gingeleit ... Lissy
Minh-Khai Phan-Thi ... Schwester Anna-Marie
Daniela Ziegler ... Monas Mutter
Teresa Harder ... St. Gabriela
Irm Hermann ... Schwester Agatha
Renate Grosser ... Mutter Felicitas
Michael Hanemann ... Monas Vater
Gustav-Peter Wöhler (as Gustav Peter Wöhler)
Monika Manz ... Schwester Dorothea
Eva Zeidler
Barbara Demmer ... Nonne
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88 min
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1 out of 1 people found the following review useful.
Hits the nail on the head., 24 February 2007
9/10
Author: Lookin' Good from Germany

You'll see many nuns in this TV film, and the setting is an Abbey near Frankfurt, Germany. But it is fact not a film about the cloister, not even about the church. It is a film about questioning your place in life.

I have been there, done that. No, I did not take up the veil, nor am I catholic, but I did take the long and stony path of a conversion (a jump into quite a different non-Christian world, equal to Monas way from the non-religious world to a nunnery). This film is true on so many levels that it would take its running time to recount them. I have felt the elation, the amazement, I have had moments of deep despair, I have met resistance of family and of new sisters (and brothers) in faith ("What does *she* want here...?"). I have questioned my own motives and wishes and those of others, and find all this portrayed by Kathrin Kühnel. The story keeps twisting and turning and you are not sure until almost the very last minute where Mona will go. All is told while mostly avoiding the usual clichés and with some rather unusual and interesting camera-work and cuts. The moment this comes out on DVD, I'll buy one.

Highly recommended.

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