FREE ON YOUTUBE Nick Cave - 20.000 Days On Earth

Wednesday at our film art bar Fitzcarraldo 80s & New Wave Sound and with it the early Nick Cave. Now you can even rent it on DVD and Cave for a day! Assuming a conventional documentary about the world's most popular living pop musician, Nick Cave, would be unsatisfactory, the creators of 20,000 Days on Earth made their main character accompany him for a fictional day of his life. Since co-directors Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard had already produced music videos for Cave & The Bad Seeds, they knew that the artist should not be underestimated. In his music he joyfully celebrates and deconstructs his public figure: as a brutalo, a coward, an agnostic and even a wannabe god. 20,000 Days on Earth is not a biography, but Work-In-Progress. Forsyth and Pollard had enough tasks ready for Cave and cleverly get him to act. In the best scene of the movie Nick Cave records the vocals for his Higgs-Boson Blues (for me the most exciting song of Push the Sky Away, the last album of Bad Seeds). In real time we see Cave languish in extreme close-up. And he only plays this song for Forsyth and Pollard before an audience even hears it! Isn't that impressive?(...)

FREE ON VIMEO John Carpenter Big Trouble In Little China

Is there a remake of the original with Dwayne_Johnson? What is more, a sequel has been announced. Well, we purists stick with the'86 original. That sounded like a good idea: John Carpenter's Big Budget production, which unites all Kung Fu, martial arts and other Far East clichés, assuming that Chinatown is only the tip of the iceberg. Among them are catacombs of an underworld over which a 2000 year old bad dream reigns. As described; that sounds promising and Carpenter's fantasy spectacle gives us hope for the first 30 minutes. His film takes up a lot of pacing, offers extravagant visual gimmicks under the banner of the 80s and, moreover, Carpenter fills a plump pack of popcorn with Chinese black magic. Everything looks exotic and pleasantly light-footed! After a while, however, the film recycles itself and more than once you think you have already seen this scene. Someone's always slipping off somewhere and at the end everyone flies through the air. John Carpenter's early films know that special effects aren't everything - but Big Trouble In Little China seems to have forgotten exactly that. Kurt Russell plays Jack Burton, an adventurer who always has a loose spell on his lips. His friend's name is Wang Chi (Dennis Dun) and his girlfriend is kidnapped by bandits into the underworld of Chinatown. The rest is basically a single chase in which Burton and Wang Chi pull two women out of the clutches of a ghostly karate master. To be saved, he must marry a green-eyed woman. Kurt Russell is supposed to look like a classic Hollywood hero - but even they don't always do the right thing at the right time. Otherwise it would only be quite exciting - like Big Trouble In Little China. Carpenter, who was allowed to spend a lot of money for the first time, uses it for effects. His characters are just stopgaps. The film is especially interesting from Hollywood's point of view on the Chinese. As stereotypical as a real satire, Carpenter looks at a foreign world in which almost everything exists. At least you can't blame him for chumming up to the taste of Arthaus.

FREE ON DAILYMOTION Abbas Kiarostami - Through The Olive Trees

Abbas Kiarostami's third film is about filmmaking and also plays with the possibilities of film itself: Somewhere between fiction and documentary. It's part of an unofficial trilogy set in Koker. The topic: The intellectuals of Iran. An actor gives the director (why not Kiarostami himself?) on the set of a fictional film. Kiarostami staged in the style of the early neo-realists and yet one still thinks more than once that here just before our eyes the cinema is once again being invented. Sure, Kiarostami stages on the streets with non-actresses and integrates real elements of action - but his style is also enormously complex and offers a complex superposition of actor and role as well as story and storyteller. Even the screening and the audience are in a strange relationship in this film, which questions everything: the difference between film and reality. Kiarostami condenses all this in a simple parabolic story with just as simple characters that seem almost a bit boring. For those who simply want to follow the plot, this may be disturbing, as it is difficult to follow and feel with Kiarostami's characters. But those who expect a piece of cinema aesthetics and are familiar with Persian film are exactly right in Kiarostami's work!

FREE ON DAILYMOTION The Neverending Story

No movie ran better than The Neverending Story in our NOMADENKINO! Who would have thought it? Sure, our NOMADENKINO was founded to show experimental films that go down in the cinema with a portable 35mm projector. But not only! Our NOMADENKINO is something like a walking event. A cinema that appears in different venues like the Holzmarkt, About Blank or Klunkerkranich to show films there. And sometimes you just want a little nostalgia. When I saw The Neverending Story again after almost 30 years, I mainly noticed how great the film has aged. Were children's films ever so nihilistic before? The kingdom of fantasies is in great danger. But the enemy is neither an evil sorcerer nor any other tangible danger. The enemy is nothing. It spreads and threatens to wipe out fantasies. With nothing. Only the imagination of a little boy named Bastian (Barret Oliver) stands between the kingdom of fantasies and nothing. Bastian discovers fantasies in an old bookstore. There you don't meet him very friendly, but Bastian manages to steal the book of infinite history. A dangerous book - and suddenly Bastian realizes while reading that the characters in the never-ending story know HIM, Bastian. The story has come true! How is that possible? That's the first question Bastian asks himself. A truly modern and skeptical boy! But what should Bastian do? He opens the next page and it is the childlike empress (Tami Stronach) herself who asks him to give her a name to prevent fantasies from going down. For me, that was always the best thing about Michael Ende's Infinite Story: The idea of a story IN history. The other great idea is that a child's imagination is enough to stop the passage of fate. Faith in the imagination of the children that saves us all! There's a lot we believe in in The Never Ending Story. Much we GERNE believe, because this Bavaria production doesn't look like another Star Wars copy! Here a new world is really emerging before our eyes and today - after almost 30 years - it seems all the more romantic! The creatures of this world are dolls and I like them much better than today's animation techniques - precisely because they seem so beautifully unreal! Puppets are just as three-dimensional as the human characters in the film and that's what makes it look right again! Within the world of fantasies we meet the brave hero Atreyu (Noah Hathaway), who paves a way to the glass tower of the childlike empress. He must sneak past the Amazons up to the tower. Atreyu's story alone would have filled every other fantasy film, but not The Neverending Story. Michael Ende's novel is about the unfolding of this story and that's why we see Bastian turning the pages again and again, breathlessly. He, who was tormented by his classmates on his way to school, is now allowed to take part in Atreyu's adventures. The Never Ending Story is not a story that just happens. Bastian (and we) learn that every story is a never-ending act of fantasy! A never-ending act of storytelling! That's why we love the endless story so much that hardly any other performance of our open air nomadic cinema was allowed to welcome so many spectators! -

FREE ON YOUTUBE Miete Essen Seele Auf - Kotti & Co

(YOU FIND THE WHOLE FILM FREE ON YOUTUBE) During the documentary Week in Sputnik and fsk- The documentary will probably not be released on DVD. - It was one night in 2012 when some people living in social housing around the Kottbusser Tor built a hut called Gecekondu (set up at night). This is the name of informal Turkish settlements. Here, the neighbours met to develop a new direction. A focal point of debates on gentrification and repression, but also on migration and racism. Frustrated contemporaries would now claim that this is no use at all. They ignore a simple fact: even in the now legendary 90s, when Kreuzberg actually stood on the sidelines, the topic of "gentrification" existed. If you don't believe that, rent the Kreuzberg movie Trouble (1993) (DVD5091) or stream it free on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs7Jt_V9SqU&t=24s). Conversely, this means that the subject of repression already existed after the fall of communism, can't all have been repressed, can it? Someone must have stopped them! That's enough: Resistance does make sense! But it has to be added; in the early 00s, friends of mine rented studios directly at the Kotti (on top of the Cafe Kottis level) for ONE euro per square meter. Thus it was tried to make a rotten neighborhood accessible again. Today that would be unthinkable. Anyone who wants to stand up for the issue at the moment helps our neighbours from the mutiny. They have to leave in a year and then we would have one less institution in Reichenberg: The "autonomous" pub! So: Just go there at four on Mondays and do something about it.

FREE ON YOUTUBE Satyajit Ray - Mahanagar

(YOU FIND THE WHOLE FILM WITH ENGLISH subtitles FREE ON YOUTUBE) Mahanagar is highly recommended as one of the greatest cinematic experiments of its time! This is due to the narrative talent of Satyarjit Ray and the beauty of his leading actress Madhabi Mukherjee, who plays with a depth that takes my breath away! She embodies Arati, a young housewife and mother. Her husband's salary isn't enough to live, so Arati has to find a job. Her parents are horrified; no woman should work! However: times have changed. For the first time she comes into contact with other people and social classes. Finally Arati begins to put on make-up. Full of humour Ray now describes how the old father declares the "cold war" to his son-in-law and also the husband must maintain respect for himself in view of his wife's new position. It's remarkable that Ray really cares about this simple family and their problems. Sure, his film is set in India, apparently far away from us. But is that really so? Don't the same problems exist here? Ray's films are "foreign" and yet again not! Every character might as well be living around the corner. Perhaps stupid German comedies with silly starlets are much stranger to us than this 1963 film?

FREE ON YOUTUBE Shohei Imamura - The Insect Woman

(YOU FIND THE WHOLE FILM WITH ENGLISH subtitles FREE ON YOUTUBE) Shôhei Imamura takes up universal themes such as the instinct for self-preservation and sex. Occasionally it seems as if he tells his story a little incoherently, even confusedly. But although we are dealing here with a Japanese film from 1963, we understand the characters. They may be exotic, but there is no doubt: the characters Imamura shows are real! The focus is on Tome Matsuki (Sachiko Hidari). She belongs to the poor "primitive" class. Tome Matsuki decides instinctively, without a sense for the categories "right" vs. "wrong". The whole life of a woman is processed before us, beginning during the 20's, through the turmoil of war up to the present of the film. She prostitutes herself, gives birth to a child, never marries. It is thought that everything is subordinated to the will to succeed. Finally, she takes the position of a lady in Tokyo as the lover of a businessman. But where is happiness? Where can she find something like satisfaction? Is it not in the home of her village, along with the daughter and her future son-in-law? Sachiko Hidari plays her role simply and simply - and that is exactly what makes her appeal! We understand this simple soul who pretends to live a peaceful life. Perhaps it is the biggest theme of Japanese cinema: The conflict between tradition and modernity. (You can find the movie on youtube)

Filmliste: Experimental 80s Flops

Hier kommt eine Filmliste mit genauso ambitionierten wie erfolglosen Filmen aus den 80ern. Einige von ihnen hatten das Zeug, die Reputation ihrer Regisseure zu zerstören, heute aber, werden diese Werke endlich anerkannt! - Here comes a list of films from the 80s that are as ambitious as they are unsuccessful. Some of them had what it takes to destroy the reputation of their directors, but today, these works are finally recognized!(...)

FREE ON YOUTUBE Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Grosstadt

The comparison falls short and of course it is also a bit unfair. The comparison of Vertov's Man_With_A_Movie_Camera and Ruttmann's Berlin: The Symphony of the Big City. Especially since Ruttmann's film was shown in cinemas! Nevertheless, most of you probably prefer the revolutionary Soviet cinema. Ruttmann himself belonged to a similar school; that of the absolute filmmaker and in this sense Berlin can be considered an avant-garde city symphony. In contrast to the Russian variant, Ruttmann works with a traditional structure. He performs a whole day, strictly linear. The document of a capitalist society, a world of work. Ruttmann staged his pseudo-documentary half a decade before Germany (and he himself) fell into fascism. Of course, one wonders how many of the good workers and children in the picture will plunder Jewish businesses just a few years later and help the mass murderers? Could that happen to us today? Ruttmann shows us this legendary state of the Weimar Republic, whose decadence was to lead to Hitler. However, politics is largely ignored. Just once soldiers march past us and we can take a look at Hindenburg. Was he actually president then? Then Ruttmann captures the legendary nightlife, the better society, the age of jazz. Of course, this seems to be more baroque in Germany of the 1920s than in other "western" countries!(...)

FREE ON YOUTUBE The Cow (1969)

FREE ON YOUTUBE: The Cow - Gaav (1969) (engl. subt.). Today, on Sunday, the most beautiful day to stare at, I played Netflix and Amazon Prime again. Do you think those two players will choose a Sunday movie for me? Of course, both providers only have a very limited choice. If I enter Hitchcock, I can be happy about two goals. But what about the evaluation of my data? Did Netflix and Amazon Prime do their homework and count me thoroughly? No. They're offering me things I don't... want to see. Cucumbers. Films I didn't buy for our video store. All right. What about very simple blockbusters? But please not for 3,99 Euro additionally. That's bullshit, I've already got a month's subscription! In our video library we lend the new Marvel for only one Euro! But: Stupidly run. Popular movies can't afford Netflix and Amazon Prime. So I simply created an alternative on cinegeek.de. A Youtube finder for free. All movies I find on YouTube are labeled FREE ON YOUTUBE. Only good movies, of course! Those that we also lend in our video store, because you or I like them! Important: We are not interested in money. We choose the films we love! Not those that are profitable (=bad). How about The Cow, this wonderful and poetic masterpiece from Iran? There is currently nowhere on DVD and of course neither on Netflix, nor Amazon Prime. No surprise. - During the 50's and 60's Iranian movies resembled Bollywood's. They sang and danced, although on a technically much lower level. The men were tough guys, the women were Madonnas or whores. Or both. Or something like that. During the late 1950s, however, a new wave also developed in Iran. Poetic, silent films, close to Persian literary tradition, were screened at film festivals. They showed life as it actually was: hard and arduous - and in this they resembled Italian neo-realism. The Cow from 1969 is the most beautiful of them! But could one sell such a strict work abroad that was so strongly based on the local culture in Iran? In Iran, however, The Cow had a pioneering effect. Who knows the story of Ayatollah Khomeini, who after all wanted to burn down all the cinemas after the 1979 revolution? But then he saw The Cow and decided that FILM was something useful after all. If you look at today's world successes from Iran, you will notice the great reverberation of The Cow. The film follows the short story by left-wing writer Gholamhossein Saedi. In the center is Mash Hassan (Ezatollah Entezami), who owns the only cow in the village. There is an almost transcendent bond between him and the animal. That's why he can't believe the villagers that the cow has run away one day. He sits all alone, waiting, looking out into the desert. The moment he lets all hope go, he slowly seems to transform himself into the cow, making similar sounds and trying out her hay. He or she calls upon Hassan to protect them from human cruelty...

NOMADENKINO und CINEGEEK.DE: Berlin - Die Sinfonie der Grosstadt

No film was as successful this summer in our NOMADENKINO as Symphony Of Now, which is based on Walter Ruttmann's Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Grosstadt (1927). So we decided to do the obvious and screen both films in one evening. Berlin to the rhythm of work then and Berlin to the beat of celebration today. As long as I can remember, friends kept saying that they would have liked to have experienced the Berlin of the 20s. It seems that this city, which had to fight against itself for so long as a front-line city, draws its self-confidence from the Weimar Republic! But wasn't that also a time of the slow rise of the Hitler Party? This film list tries to live up to the longing for a Berlin of the golden 20s - and possibly also to drive the myth a little behind...

NOMADENKINO 11.8.18 Three Billboards

(NOMADENKINO AND CINEGEEK SHOW THE FILM ON 8/11/18 AT THE LOCK SWANTE AM SEE, SCHLOSSPLATZ 1-3, 16727 OBERKRÄMER, 21.00) Anger is the driving force of Martin McDonaghs Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, one of the best movies of the year! We are dealing with a southern history + Irish humour in which anger acts as an incurable energy. Conventional Hollywood movies would much rather teach us that anger hurts like a sin. That acceptance and understanding lead to true happiness! But this is easier said than done! How can you NOT get angry in an unjust world? After all, life is racist, sexist and cruel, especially in the southern states of the USA! No one can embody anger better than Frances McDormand. She plays Mildred Hayes, a divorced woman who lost her daughter Angela last year. Angela was raped and murdered. They never solved the case, there wasn't even a suitable DNA. The police chief responsible ("Woody Harrelson") is unable to provide Mildred with answers, so she rents three billboards outside the city: "Raped while dying", "And still no arrests" and "How come, Chief Willoughby?" are now on the doorstep of the lovely community and the local press becomes aware of them. However, if you think you know what happens next, you will be taught a better lesson. McDonagh's simply perfect script will never give you what you expect... In other films, the secret of Angela's fate would have determined the story. Mildred gives her rage a direction to push Angela's case. Her opponent seems to be the racist mother's boy Dixon (Sam Rockwell). Dixon has no idea how he's gonna solve this case, but he does. A hunch that could cost him his job... But Dixon is a racist, violent cop, as I said. One who drinks himself to sleep night after night and expects nothing more from life. Sam Rockwell and Woody Harrelson do their job well; but the film belongs to Frances McDormand! One glance from her tells us more than whole monologues of other actors! The most touching moments are when the grief is behind her anger! But how can we learn to be tolerant? Of course, no daughter should die as cruelly as Angela - but how do we deal with this knowledge now? How can we control our own anger? Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is one of those very rare works that help us. The film is profound, but also grounded. He inspires us, but he never tries to be manipulative. In general, very few films made me laugh and cry at the same time! Only very, very few movies are as good as this one!

FREE ON YOUTUBE Steven Spielberg - Duell

Natürlich hat Steven Spielberg längst ausgesorgt. Würde man die grössten Filme des 20. Jahrhunderts aus der Distanz heraus betrachten, etwa mit einer ausgesprochen langen Teleskop Stange in der näheren Zukunft; Spielberg hätte seinen Platz unter den Grössten sicher. Kein anderer Regisseur war erfolgreicher am Box Office. Keiner hat mehr Titel auf den diversen Listen der besten Filme aller Zeiten platziert. Niemand baute so beeindruckend eine Brücke zwischen künstlerischem und finanziellen Erfolg. Spielberg besitzt sogar sein eigenes Studio. Dreamworks. Nur ganz wenige anderer Filmemacher besassen so viel Macht! Und selbst wenn Spielberg keinen einzigen Filme selbst inszeniert hätte, müssten wir ihn doch als einen der erfolgreichsten Produzenten Hollywoods verehren! Wer würde angesichts seiner Werke bestreiten: Es ist schwer, einen guten Film zu machen. Sehr schwierig ist es auch, einen erfolgreichen Film zu produzieren. Noch viel schwieriger: Beides! Ich denke, der jahrelange Erfolg Spielbergs beruht auf seiner Gabe, immer noch den Teenager ins sich zu spüren. Das, was ihn als Teenager berührte, das hat Spielberg nie vergessen! Ein Mann, der immer noch staunen kann wie ein Junge. Über die Welt und über das Filmemachen. Diese, seine Geschichte, begann 1971. Damals hatte Spielberg einen TV Film inszeniert. Ein TV Film, der so erfolgreich war, dass er ins Kino MUSSTE! Duell mutete fast spartanisch an. Ein Thriller ohne aufwendige Dialoge oder Effekte und doch fesselnd. Es ist die Geschichte von David Mann (Dennis Weaver)(...)

FREE ON YOUTUBE: Kevin Smith - Dogma

Wo entscheidet sich das Schicksal der Menschheit? Kevin Smith aus New Jersey muss in seinem vierten Film nicht lange nachdenken: In New Jersey, dort wo auch seine anderen Filme spielen. In Dogma treten leibhaftige Engel mit Flügeln auf, ein Dämon mit Teufelshörnern und ein Metatron (Alan Rickman) - die Stimme Gottes. Natürlich darf Gott selbst auch erscheinen sowie eine Sterbliche, bestimmt dazu, die Menschheit zu retten (sie ist die Gross Gross Gross-Nichte von Jesus). Obwohl Smith gern an die Grenzen der Alberei geht, nimmt er seine Sinnsuche doch ernst. Kardinal Glick (George Carlin) versucht sogar, die katholische Kirche zu reformieren, weil der gekreuzigte Jesus zu deprimierend sei. Ein guter Kumpel wäre besser! In dieser Kathedrale sollen fortan alle Sünden vergeben werden. Das nutzen die verstossenen Engel Engel Loki (Matt Damon) und Bartleby (Ben Affleck). Wenn die Kirche nun aber Gottes Gebot bricht und die beiden Ausgestossenen rehabilitiert, ist Gottes Gesetz nichts mehr Wert. Das Ende der Welt. Da Gott verschwunden ist, versucht der Metatron, die Menschen zu retten. Dabei behilflich sind so skurrile Typen wie unsere alten Bekannten Silent Bob und Jay(...)

FREE STREAM: Fatih Akin - Tschick

atih Akin verfilmt Wolfgang Herrndorfs Bestseller mit Schützenhilfe eines anderen Hamburgers: Hark Bohm, einem der besten (und zugleich entdeckungswürdigsten) Regisseure des Neuen Deutschen Films. Wir erwarten eine klassische Coming Of Age Geschichte. Das mag ungewöhnlich sein, da vor allem Debütanten solche Filme inszenieren und Akin längst arriviert ist. Kennt Akin das flüchtige Gefühl der Jugend noch? Das Gefühl des Sturm und Drangs? Herrnhof selbst vertiefte sich in die Bücher seiner eigenen Kindheit(...)

NOMADENKINO UND CINEGEEK: Hamburger Gitter

(NOMADENKINO UND CINEGEEK ZEIGEN DEN FILM AM 21.8.18) Hier kommt ein Protestfilm gegen den Sicherheitsstaat. Gezeigt werden die Ereignisse um den G20 Gipfel in Hamburg. Hunderte Stunden von Bildmaterial und zahlreiche Interviews von Aktivisten, Journalisten und Beteiligten werden ausgebreitet. Wir lernen den jungen Fabio aus Italien kennen, der fast fünf Monate in U-Haft sass oder die (ehemalige) Redakteurin Elisa Koester, der anschliessend ihre Presseakkreditierung entzogen wurde. Es sind brutale Aufnahmen, Ruhe wird uns nur zeitweise durch schicke Drohnenbilder der Hansestadt gegönnt. Die Frage sei erlaubt, weshalb diese aufwühlende Doku erst ein Jahr nach dem Gipfel ins Kino kommt? Marco Heinig erklärt uns, dass eigentlich gar kein Film geplant war. Erst, nachdem man im Dezember damit begann, nach vermeintlichen Straftätern zu suchen und diese mit überzogenen Strafen zu überziehen, entschlossen sich die Macher der Doku, aktiv zu werden. Hausprojekte wurden durchsucht und auch bei uns in der Reichenberger Strasse bekamen Einrichtungen wie die Autonomen Bibliothek oder die Anarcho Kneipe gegen über unserer Filmkunstbar Fitzcarraldo, die Meuterei, Besuch. Seitdem fahren Wochenende für Wochenende Polizeikutschen bei den Nachbarn vor. Kritische Stimmen zum Geschehen? Fehlanzeige. Stattdessen Law And Order. Ereignisse wurden populistisch umgedeutet und so kamen die Macher von Hamburger Gitter auf die Idee, eine Doku zu produzieren. Es wird von "bewusster Provokation" oder "gezieltem Versagen" gesprochen, dann die gewaltsame Auflösung der "Welcome To Hell" Demo. In den Sammeleinrichtungen misshandelten Polizisten Gefangene, schliesslich drohte ein fast paramilitärischer SEK Einsatz im Schanzenviertel. Keine Polizeigewalt? Von wegen; Hamburger Gitter wirkt wie eine Bilder-Lawine bedrohlicher Polizeigewalt! Geschickt werden diese Aufnahmen eingebettet in die aktuelle Debatte um Sicherheit und polizeiliche Aufrüstung: Der G20 Gipfel als Schaufenster moderner Polizeiarbeit. Während der Polizeisprecher von einem "guten Job" spricht, hören wir zum ersten Mal zahlreiche Gegenstimmen. Zu einseitige Gegenstimmen? Die Macher von Hamburger Gitter versuchten wochenlang, ein paar "echte" Polizisten vor die Kamera zu holen. Umsonst. Premiere ist natürlich in Hamburg auf der Strasse, dann aber wird Hamburger Gitter in verschiedenen Kinos aufgeführt. Warum nicht direkt im Internet, sondern in "Mainstream" Kinos? Begründet wird das mit dem Vorhaben, einmal raus zu kommen aus der linken Blase, um ganz andere Menschen zu erreichen. Wenn wir, Nomadenkino und Cinegeek, da helfen können, sehr gerne! (Bild: https://www.google.de/search?q=hamburger+gitter+film&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiy_rP3

YOUTUBE STREAM: Hans-Christian Schmid - Requiem (engl. subt.)

Der Schrecken lebt in der deutschen Provinz, dort, wo die Menschen mit Gott vergiftet werden. Es muss irgendwann in den 70er Jahren sein, in einem namenlosen schwäbischen Dorf. Die Studentenrevolte fand hier nie statt, es herrscht der Vikar über seine Gemeinde. Aufklärung wurde dieser Region niemals zuteil. Hier wohnt Michaela Klingler (Sandra Hüller), ein unscheinbares Mädchen um die zwanzig. Ihr ganzes Leben lang litt sie unter einer Krankheit, dieser "Sache", doch endlich fand sie einen Studienplatz für Pädagogik in Tübingen. Diese "Sache" heisst in der Medizin Epilepsie. Für Mutter Klingler (Imogen Kogge) aber steht fest, dass Michaela vom Teufel heimgesucht wird. Doch das scheint hinter Michaela zu liegen, die nun ins Studentenwohnheim zieht und zum ersten Mal eine Busenfreundin findet. Einzig an den Wochenenden muss sie zurück in die Heimat, die sich ihr von Mal zu Mal kälter zeigt. Verzweifelt versucht Michaela, die Liebe der Mutter zu erlangen - jedoch vergeblich. In Tübingen verliebt sich Michaela zum allerersten Mal, feiert ausgelassen und erlebt den Rückfall in die Epilepsie. Auf einer Wahlfahrt zerreisst sie während eines Anfalls den Rosenkranz. Das Band zwischen ihr und Gott scheint für immer zerschnitten. "Warum lässt mir Gott mein Glück nicht?"(…)