Requiem

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

Mar 2 2006 TV-MA 1h 33m
Drama, Horror

Michaela, an epileptic, enrolls in college to study education. She goes off her medication and soon begins hearing voices and seeing apparitions that tell her to avoid religious objects, although she is devoutly Roman Catholic. One priest scoffs at the idea that Michaela could be possessed by demons, but a younger pastor arranges an exorcism for the young woman.

Plot

It is the 70's, and in the German countryside the epileptic Michaela Klingler joins the pedagogy course at the University against the will of her pious mother, Marianne. However her father Karl Klingler rents her a room in the sorority house and Michaela travels to Tübingen. As the semester progresses, Michaela befriends her former high school friend, Hanna Imhof, who forces her to seek medical help. When Michaela has a crisis, she stops taking her medication and believes she is possessed by demons, and her health gets worse. She decides to seek out a priest, Martin Borchert, who believes in exorcism whereas the progressive parochial priest Gerhard Landauer tries to convince her to go to a psychologist.

Written by

Bernd Lange

Directed by

Hans-Christian Schmid

Cast

Sandra Hüller, Burghart Klaußner, Imogen Kogge

Crew

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Production Countries

Germany

Production Companies

ARTE, 23/5 Filmproduktion, Südwestrundfunk, Bayerischer Rundfunk, WDR

Languages

Deutsch

Awards

16 wins & 19 nominations total

Trailers
Requiem Trailer
Requiem Trailer (2006)
Scores
# of Votes
6,859
Average Rating
6.8 out of 10
Metascore
82
Popularity
NA