The Fourteenth Station of the Cross

Dietrich Brüggemann
Lea van Acken, Franziska Weisz, Florian Stetter, Lucy Ahrens, Anna Brüggemann, Michael Kamp, Moritz Knapp, Birge Schade, Sven Taddicken, Hans Zischler
2014
Germany
Completed
German, French, Latin
107 minutes
Detailed introduction
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。The dialogue language isGerman, French, Latin,Current Douban rating7.7(For reference only)。
Since starting her Catholic catechism classes, the devout girl Maria has distanced herself from popular culture and resisted the various temptations of the embodiment of Satan. As she grew up, her strict mother continued to control her daily life and friendships with absolute authority. Devout Maria not only strives to meet these demands but also secretly makes a dangerous decision to help her autistic brother find his voice. The film "The Girl's Prayer" employs a meticulously perfect form that echoes the extreme behavior of its characters. With fourteen titles, borrowed from the chapters of Jesus’s passion, and fourteen long takes that construct a ritualistic and rigorous structure, it evokes memories of Rossellini’s "The Flowers of St. Francis" from 1950. Unlike that film, this work appears to calmly profile Maria's journey of faith and sacrifice, while actually using a strongly critical and satirical tone to explore how extreme religious fanaticism can become a variant of authoritarian oppression, with astonishing audacity.