FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Hans Christian Schmid - Requiem 

The horror lives in the German province, where people are poisoned with God. It must be sometime in the 70s, in a nameless Swabian village. The student revolt never took place here, the vicar rules his community. Education has never been given to this region. Here lives Michaela Klingler (Sandra Hüller), an inconspicuous girl in her twenties. All her life she suffered from an illness, this "thing", but finally she found a place to study pedagogy in Tübingen. This "thing" is called epilepsy in medicine. For mother Klingler (Imogen Kogge), however, it is certain that Michaela will be haunted by the devil. But that seems to be behind Michaela, who is now moving into the dormitory and is finding a bosom friend for the first time. Only on the weekends she has to return to her homeland, which is colder and colder from time to time. Michaela desperately tries to get the love of her mother - but in vain. In Tübingen Michaela falls in love for the very first time, celebrates exuberantly and experiences a relapse into epilepsy. On an election drive she tears the rosary during a seizure. The bond between her and God seems cut forever. "Why doesn't God leave me happiness?"; she asks the priest Borchert (Jens Harzer), who is slowly becoming obsessed with the idea of driving Michaela out of the devil... Michaela is not only lost to her parents, but also to medicine and religion. Hans-Christian Schmid shows her torments discreetly, often from behind. Michaela suffers quietly, she fights. We do not see her with a distorted face and yet her body seems to react to everything religious with twitches. Requiem is interested in what exists outside the social norm. Michaela, a victim everyone thinks is insane. She thinks she is the successor of Saint Katherina and bears the suffering of all mankind. Michaela believes she is serving a higher cause - and slowly we understand how the fanaticism of Evangelical Christians or radical Islamists works.