The read
Critics rate it 13 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 87% of the 3,246 2000s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
Michaela, an epileptic, enrolls in college to study education. She goes off her medication and soon begins hearing voices and seeing apparitions that tell her to avoid religious objects, although she is devoutly Roman Catholic. One priest scoffs at the idea that Michaela could be possessed by demons, but a younger pastor arranges an exorcism for the young woman.
Ratings
IMDb6.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes86%
Metacritic82/100
Critics rate it 13 points higher than audiences do.
127 audience votes
Key crew
- Hans-Christian SchmidDirector
- Bernd LangeScreenplay
Cast
- Sandra HüllerMichaela Klingler
- Burghart KlaußnerKarl Klingler
- Imogen KoggeMarianne Klingler
- Anna BlomeierHanna Imhof
- Nicholas ReinkeStefan Weiser
- Walter SchmidingerGerhart Landauer
- Johann Adam OestProfessor
- Eva LöbauNurse
- Friederike AdolphHelga Klingler
- Jens HarzerMartin Borchert
- Irene KuglerWarden
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Themes
daughterdepressionfriendshipbecoming an adultreligious educationmortificationtherapistgermanyprayerfreedomconfession1970s