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5:00 PM, EST
Jesus Egon Christus by David & Saša Vajda
Film screening|Film screening | Festival Nouveau Cinéma
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Cinémathèque québécoise, Montréal
- Language German with English subtitles
- Price 14 CAD
Oktober 11, 2021 at 17:00 at Cinémathèque québecoise
Germany | 2021 | 51 mins
German with English subtitles.
The film celebrated its world premiere at the 71st Berlinale 2021 in the section Perspektive Deutsches Kino.
About the film:
An evangelical parish in the countryside outside of Berlin. A self-proclaimed priest preaches to the forgotten, the unemployed and the hooked.
Addicts who are going cold turkey receive shelter and food at his rundown farm. A newcomer arrives: Egon, a young insomniac and oddball suffering from a chronic psychosis. He has trouble coming to terms with his new home — he doesn’t participate in the daily working routine, he refuses to shower, he can’t sleep. Jesus starts talking to him and gradually distorts his already tenuous grip on reality. As his mental state slowly disintegrates, his psychosis morphs into a theological crisis that no one in the group is capable of addressing.
An intimate tale about the loneliness of a psychosis and a group of addicts in rehab.
Through Egon's eyes, directing duo David and Saša Vajda depicts a community of careworn and scarred fellow sufferers whose stories make tangible the terrible reality behind the film’s fiction. An intimate observational drama about a group of heroin addicts in withdrawal and the loneliness of psychosis. - www.filmportal.de
JESUS EGON CHRISTUS
Germany | 2021 | 51 minsGerman with English subtitles.
The film celebrated its world premiere at the 71st Berlinale 2021 in the section Perspektive Deutsches Kino.
About the film:
An evangelical parish in the countryside outside of Berlin. A self-proclaimed priest preaches to the forgotten, the unemployed and the hooked.
Addicts who are going cold turkey receive shelter and food at his rundown farm. A newcomer arrives: Egon, a young insomniac and oddball suffering from a chronic psychosis. He has trouble coming to terms with his new home — he doesn’t participate in the daily working routine, he refuses to shower, he can’t sleep. Jesus starts talking to him and gradually distorts his already tenuous grip on reality. As his mental state slowly disintegrates, his psychosis morphs into a theological crisis that no one in the group is capable of addressing.
An intimate tale about the loneliness of a psychosis and a group of addicts in rehab.
Through Egon's eyes, directing duo David and Saša Vajda depicts a community of careworn and scarred fellow sufferers whose stories make tangible the terrible reality behind the film’s fiction. An intimate observational drama about a group of heroin addicts in withdrawal and the loneliness of psychosis. - www.filmportal.de
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