Requiem
Hans-Christian Schmid
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Plot Summary
In Hans-Christian Schmid's REQUIEM, Michaela (Sandra Huller) has grown up in a deeply religious family in a small town in Germany in the 1970's. Despite her long battle with epilepsy, she leaves home and secures her first taste of freedom while studying at the university. Her budding love for Stefan (Nicholas Reinke) and her friendship with Hanna (Anna Blomeier) crack open the shell of faith and family within which she had always felt secure and protected. The result is a breakdown. Not a normal epileptic attack, but a frightening rush of grotesque faces and voices. Afraid of being sent back home to her family, Michaela seeks help from a priest who reinforces her conviction that she is possessed. Though Stefan and Hanna beg her to seek psychiatric help, they are unable to break through the dense religious and moral ties binding Michaela to her family. This haunting indie drama from IFC is based on a true story.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
TOMATOMETER
88%- Reviews Counted: 34
- Fresh: 30
- Rotten: 4
- Average Rating: 7.4/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: Like The Exorcism of Emily Rose ... Requiem is loosely based on the real-life story of a West German woman who died in 1976 after a series of failed exorcisms.
Fresh: [Sandra Huller's] intensity is so compelling you truly have no idea if those demons are real.
Fresh: [A] stunningly played story of faith vs. family.
Fresh: In lesser hands, Requiem would seem merely bleak, but Schmid makes a rigorously urgent and compelling film out of Michaela's odyssey.
Customer Reviews
Good film
Good movie wish it would have contunued though. Vary happy they had it with english subtitles.
Annelisse michel
I'm obsessed with her life and story! So sad I first heard about this when my grandma told me about it when I was 13 but got more into when Emily rose came out!!! Requiem is amazing tho
Better in German
This movie is good, it's just a shame it's not in GERMAN. Some people can speak the language, you know.
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