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DAS NEUE EVANGELIUM

DAS NEUE EVANGELIUM

Milo Rau
Feature filmD 2020107'German subsFSK 12
Trailer
Thursday, 9. Sep 2021, 20:00
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Milo Rau tells the well-known New Testament story of Jesus anew: with non-professional actors from sub-Saharan Africa living in Italy, some of them illegally, as seasonal workers in precarious circumstances. Rau merges his fiction with elements of the essay film and making-of – a convincing genre mixture especially for the updated Christian social criticism and the anti-authoritarian rebellion of the biblical Jesus. The movie’s provocative strength is also reminiscent of Christoph Schlingensief’s works.

Director
Milo Rau
Screenplay
Milo Rau
Producers
Arne Birkenstock, Olivier Zobrist, Sebastian Lemke
Cinematography
Thomas Eirich-Schneider
Editing
Katja Dringenberg
Sound
Marco Teufen, Julian Joseph, Guido Keller, Dieter Lengacher
Production Design
Anton Lukas, Ottavia Castellotti
Cast
Yvan Sagnet, Papa Latyr Faye, Samuel Jacobs, Yussif Bamba, Jeremiah Akhere Ogbeide
Domestic Sales
Port au Prince Pictures