Without This World

Movie
Audience Score
50
Without This World
NR 1 hr 56 minDocumentary
World that is for the followers of a small Mennonite community in Argentina all that is outside beyond their community where the worldmen live Their everyday life is determined by an attempt to ward off everything modern a life without electricity machines and communicative media a school whose only books are the Bible and the Catechism Nora Fingscheidt takes this life in the eye and lets it be told by those who live it in different degrees of devotion In the process it is not least apparent how a lifestyle which has devoted itself entirely to the departure from this world is formed around it And then between the pictures and the words a gap opens in which the longing for a more destitute life as well as the fear of a sad departure becomes perceptible