Film screening Schwestern

Seven festively dressed people are walking through a forest carrying flowers and gifts. © Wolfgang Ennenbach

Wed, 21.07.2021

8:30 PM

Goethe-Institut Nicosia

Film still from "Schwestern"

Summer Cinema in the Goethe-Institut Garden

Feature film // 85 minutes // 2013 // Directed by: Anne Wild

The two sisters Saskia (Maria Schrader) and Kati (Marie Leuenberger) could not be more different and lead completely different lifestyles. Kati takes the decision to enter a convent, which is met with shock and incomprehension by her secular family.  On a hot summer day, the family is invited to the monastery and there learns to question the meaning of their own lives.

Directed by: Anne Wild
Screenplay: Anne Wild
Producer: Stefan Raiser, Felix Zackor
Music: Balz Bachmann
Cinematography: Ali Gözkaya
Film editing: Dagmar Lichius
Cast: Maria Schrader, Ursula Werner, Jesper Christensen, Felix Knopp, Anna Blomeier, Rita Luise Stelling, Thomas Fränzel, Lore Richter, Marie Leuenberger, Klaus Manchen, Chiara Salomé Bohrrmann

Awards

  • 2009: Nominated for the Thomas Strittmatter Screenplay Award
  • 2013: Opening film at the 9th Festival of German Film

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