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Title: Estações da Cruz (2014)
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| Lea van Acken | ... | Maria | |
| Franziska Weisz | ... | Mutter | |
| Florian Stetter | ... | Pater Weber | |
| Lucie Aron | ... | Bernadette | |
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Moritz Knapp | ... | Christian |
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Michael Kamp | ... | Vater (as Klaus Michael Kamp) |
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Georg Wesch | ... | Thomas |
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Chiara Palmeri | ... | Katharina |
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Linus Fluhr | ... | Johannes |
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Birge Schade | ... | Sportlehrerin |
| Ramin Yazdani | ... | Arzt | |
| Hanns Zischler | ... | Bestatter | |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Anna Brüggemann | ... | Ärztin - Krankenzimmer | |
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Michael Kurras | ... | In der Bibliothek |
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Lena Lessing | ... | Krankenschwester |
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 ... Written by German Films Quarterly 1/2014
Not many films get rated 10 by me, this one did. Because on top of being a perfectly told story: acting, cinematography, plot and anything else I would wish to find in a film. It's also speaking cinema. The film speaks with camera movements - yes there are almost no camera movements and when they do come they're hardly noticeable, but when they do arrive they speak volumes. They tell us the story and how the director feels about it. With finesse and mastery of his media rarely found in modern cinema. I don't want to overlook the superb acting, mainly the two leads - Lea Van Acken with a gut wrenching performance as the innocent and deeply religious Maria. And Franziska Weisz as her horrible fanatic mother who remains nameless. All the others do their share without a single false note. Such masterpieces are the reason I go to cinema festivals, finding two within two days made this year's Jerusalem Film Festival a success as far as I'm concerned. Look this one out and watch it, I couldn't recommend it highly enough.