Stations of the Cross Page #2

Synopsis: Maria is 14 years old. Her family is part of a fundamentalist Catholic community. Maria lives her everyday life in the modern world, yet her heart belongs to Jesus. She wants to follow him, to become a saint and go to heaven - just like all those holy children she's always been told about. So Maria goes through 14 stations, just like Jesus did on his path to Golgatha, and reaches her goal in the end. Not even Christian, a boy she meets at school, can stop her, even if in another world, they might have become friends, or even more. Left behind is a broken family that finds comfort in faith, and the question if all these events were really so inevitable. STATIONS OF THE CROSS is an indictment and, at the same time, the legend of a saint. It's a story of religion, devotion and radical faith, and the film itself comes along just as radical as the subject matter, telling the story in only 14 fixed-angle long shots, allowing the viewer to contemplate the interactions on screen in an entirely
Genre: Drama
Production: Film Movement
  9 wins & 7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Metacritic:
68
Rotten Tomatoes:
92%
UNRATED
Year:
2014
110 min
$159
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you alone are responsible

for your souls and your neighbours.

If we see God wrestling with the devil,

we cannot shyly retreat to the corner!

We must be unabashed.

For we are warriors.

We are savers of souls.

When a fireman gets a call he can't say:

I'm sleeping, call back later.

No, when the call comes

we have to run,

for, and here's my last question:

Why is it so important right now

that we be warriors of Christ?

Because there are only few left.

Because most so-called Catholics

attend modern Mass,

touch Communion with their hands

and live in a state of mortal sin.

I couldn't have put it better.

Because Pope and Vatican turned

their backs on 2000 years of tradition.

They celebrate Mass facing people,

and are in denial about Satan and hell.

Christ said to Peter: You are the rock

on which I will build my church.

It stood on that rock 2000 years,

a fortress against evil,

but at the Second Vatican Council

the enemy breached its walls.

The devil himself entered the church

and strolls around in it

whispering his lies.

And his greatest lie

is letting us think he doesn't exist.

The battle is now at its peak,

and that is why Archbishop Forgeron

founded the Priestly Society of St. Paul.

To preserve the Catholic Church

in its true form.

Here we keep the true faith

and we will defend it with our lives,

for as Christians

we were born to the battle.

The fiercer the fight

the surer the victory!

In the coming week

preceding your Confirmation,

watch out for those moments

where you must fight for God,

and then go to the battlefield

with a smile on your faces.

Matthias, what do you do

when you see you must fight for God?

I go to the battlefield.

- And how?

With a smile on my face.

- Right.

Now, isn't anybody wondering

why I had you write these lists?

We're coming back to that now.

Sabine, what does a warrior do

when he's not fighting?

Clean his weapons?

- Yes, but what else does he need?

Food?

- Exactly.

God doesn't want us to only fight

and die of exhaustion.

He provided us with spiritual sustenance:

Prayer, sacrament and sacrifice.

Each rosary we pray

strengthens our fighting spirit.

Each time we take Communion

it strengthens our fighting spirit.

But to make room for God

in our hearts at all,

we need sacrifice.

Jesus opens the door, looks in,

and what does he see?

No place for him in the heart.

Everything is full.

Right.

So throw out the junk!

In the Old Testament

they sacrificed goats and sheep.

What can we sacrifice today?

Money and food.

- Yes.

Clothes, films, books.

- Time.

Yes, very good Sabine.

We can give Jesus or others our time.

But Matthias and Helena,

you're right, too.

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Anna Brüggemann

Anna Brüggemann (born 24 March 1981) is a German actress and screenwriter. She has appeared in more than sixty films since 1997. more…

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