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Requiem (2006)

Drama | 93 minutes
3,46 310 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 93 minuten

Country: Germany

Directed by: Hans-Christian Schmid

Stars: Sandra Hüller, Burghart Klaußner and Imogen Kogge

IMDb score: 6,9 (6.492)

Releasedate: 2 March 2006

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Requiem plot

"She claimed she was possessed. There was no way to know for sure."

Michaela grows up in a deeply religious family in the south of Germany. Despite her severe epilepsy, she yearns to leave her parental home and go to college. But the standards at university differ from those at home, and the freedom and friendship she encounters there makes Michaela question her faith in God, her family, and herself. Meanwhile, her seizures become more frequent and severe, although the causes are unclear. Because Michaela is afraid that she will be sent home, she decides to seek help from a priest who confirms her suspicions: She is possessed. Her new school friends try to convince her to seek psychiatric help, but they fail to get through Michaela's religious and moral beliefs, and in the end they have no choice but to leave her to her own devices.

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U96

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strong drama, just a pity that the ending isn't worked out better, the film ends abruptly, otherwise it would have deserved more stars for me,

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BBarbie

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Authentic looking film about the psychological demise of a young woman, inspired by true events. Director Schmid knows how to resist the temptation to increase the shock effect with horror elements, as often happens in other films about "possession". His realistic approach improves the quality of the film. Especially since it's shocking enough already.

My conclusion: beware of priests, pastors, imams and their “professionals”, regardless of the religion you adhere to, who start meddling with psychiatric disorders without appreciable professional knowledge. Their interventions are often worse than the disease.

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Fisico (moderator films)

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A tragic film about a rural woman who, reluctantly by her parents, flees the village community to study in the city where the caring hand (and control) of the parish is no longer present. In addition, Michaela was raised to be a strict believer and initially behaves that way. It makes her what an odd man out.

It doesn't get better when she also suffers from epileptic and psychotic seizures. On the one hand she wants to break free from her stifling, strictly religious home environment, on the other she seeks it out again, but encounters misunderstanding and her visions are seen as 'possession'.

A poignant portrait that makes you stop and think that quackery has already caused a lot of human suffering.

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