Enlightenment Guaranteed (1999)

Original title

Erleuchtung garantiert

Directed by

Doris Dörrie

Genre

comedy film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 49m

Rated

0

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 23 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two German brothers travel to a monastery in Japan hoping to find peace and meaning. Along the way they lose everything they own, and even at the monastery they discover that inner calm is not easy to come by.

lightheartedwryreflectiveslow-burnmeditativegentlewhimsicalmildly absurd

What happens

Erleuchtung garantiert (Enlightenment Guaranteed) is a 1999 German film directed by Doris Dörrie about two brothers, Uwe (Uwe Ochsenknecht) and Gustav (Gustav-Peter Wöhler), who travel to Japan in order to find themselves. The two plan to retreat for a while at the Sōji-ji Monastery in Monzen, Ishikawa in the Noto Peninsula, well away from Tokyo. On their way there, in a rather literal Buddhist moment, the brothers lose all of their belongings. When they finally make it to the monastery, they find that even there, enlightenment can be elusive. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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