Bruder Schwester

2010

1h 30m

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"A film about brothers and sisters 'in heaven and on earth'"

Overview

In Brother Sister, her first feature-length film, award-winning Berlin filmmaker Maria Mohr (Cousin Cousine) narrates the story of her aunt, a nun who has dedicated her passionate affection to the long dead Spanish monk and mystic Rafael Arnáiz. Fascinated by an existence in oscillation between Christian humility and an unquenched thirst for life, Sister Ingrid is indefatigably spreading word of Brother Rafael’s name and works, a fragment of one of his ribs always in her pocket. Brother Sister follows Maria’s aunt on Rafael’s trail through Spanish monasteries and across Iberian landscapes all the way to his canonization in Rome. As well the trip leads into the filmmaker’s memory world. Her own brother died young, struck by a serious illness at the age of twenty-three. Though not a saint, he had a lot in common with Rafael ...

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Status: Released

Language: EN

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Production Information

Production Countries

Germany

Spoken Languages

German Spanish

Quick Facts

Release Date	October 22, 2010
Status	Released
Language	EN
IMDb ID	tt1763198
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Cast

Key Crew

Maria Mohr

Director

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