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Enlightenment Guaranteed

"Two Strangers in a Strange Land."

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Audience
2001 · 1h 49m
Drama, Comedy
Starring Uwe Ochsenknecht · Gustav Peter Wöhler · Petra Zieser
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Two middle aged German brothers - one New Age and recently divorced, the other uptight and sceptical - travel to a Zen monastery in Japan in search of enlightenment, or perhaps just in search of themselves.

Theatrical
Jun 8, 2001
Director
Doris Dörrie
Studio
Megaherz
Original Title
Erleuchtung garantiert
Original Language
German
Keywords
japan brother zen travel new age woman director
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Cast

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U
Uwe Ochsenknecht
Uwe
G
Gustav Peter Wöhler
Gustav
P
Petra Zieser
Petra
U
Ulrike Kriener
Ulrike
H
Heiner Lauterbach
Heiner
W
Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht
J
Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht

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