Enlightenment Guaranteed

Enlightenment Guaranteed (2000)

Erleuchtung garantiert

Two Strangers in a Strange Land.

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.

Date of release
2000-01-20
TMDB
6.9 / 10 (23)
Runtime
1h 49m
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Director
Doris Dörrie

Casting

Interesting facts

Erleuchtung garantiert is a 1999 German film directed by Doris Dörrie about two brothers, Uwe and Gustav, 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.

Production

Enlightment Guaranteed, though not a direct sequel to Dörrie's previous landmark 1985 film Men..., starred both the same actors (albeit as different characters) and a similarly existential storyline, and was occasionally billed as a sequel to the film.

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