Requiem

Requiem is based on real events,

but the characters and situations portrayed in the film are fictional.

Please!

It's here!

What is it?

I've been accepted. I can go to University on the 4th.

- We'll see... - What? It says so!

Oh, Michaela,

you know how it is.

Yes, I lost a year at school already. I'm going.

Let's take it easy. Maybe you can try it out for a day.

What?

Now be reasonable.

We've talked it over a hundred times.

How can you go with your thing?

Mama, the pills aren't for fun.

I haven't had anything for 6 months.

But what did the doctor say?

Marianne, that's enough.

What did he say?

He said it can happen again any time.

Right. Then there you are,

in Tübingen.

Should we cancel my dorm room?

What dorm room?

I thought if she's going to study, she'll need some place to live.

You rented her a room?

Mama, please! I'm 21.

- Hello. - Good day.

- Mrs. Kramer. - Michaela Klinger.

Pleased to meet you. Your room is downstairs.

This way.

Here it is.

Here. Your new home.

It's nice and big...

And so quiet.

Well, over a hundred girls live here.

They'll all still be out on a nice evening like this.

Say hi to everyone for me.

Oh, I almost forgot!

Papa...

Nothing special,

but a student needs a typewriter.

Take care.

Thanks, Papa, for everything.

Good morning. Stay where you are a moment, okay?

Social pedagogy is about communicating values.

And it's about finding these values for yourself.

How can you pass them on otherwise?

Do you believe in the role model function of pedagogy?

- Me? - Yes, you.

I don't know.

What do you believe in?

In God.

You all find that amusing, do you?

What do you believe in then?

You see?

And that's exactly the problem.

Hanna?

We were in high school together... Michaela.

What are you doing here?

What do you think? Pedagogy is easy credits.

It's my major. Where do you live?

In the south city dorm.

- Me, too! - How nice for you.

Brotherly love?

Pedagogy is easy credits, isn't it?

Where were you?

You were there until 11th grade, then you disappeared.

- I took a year off. - Why?

- I didn't bring my swimsuit. - So? Me neither.

Come in! It's not cold!

Think I'm lying?

Come in!

Now you're gonna get baptized!

- Amen. - Amen.

Show me!

- I want one, too. - Eat your dinner.

The first week was great.

We had a test and I think I didn't do badly.

And I met Hanna Imhof there.

She's studying, too?

With a father like that...

That's got nothing to do with her.

No wonder you came so late.

We didn't send you there for that.

I wanted to go there!

Can't we eat in peace for once?

Apparently not.

Look! The trees look so different, so green.

With those branches.

Nice you found time for the pilgrimage.

Have I ever missed one?

No!

Up there.

Want to go in there?

You can pray now.

Someone stole something.

Yes.

It all looks so old.

Lui-gina.

Giu-seppe.

Angels with roses.

She's so sad.

What did you ask Saint Katharina for?

- Only the saint knows. - Think she'll answer?

You just have to listen.

She'll give some kind of sign and then you'll feel her.

You didn't feel it yet?

Thanks.

Here.

I prayed and asked the Lord to keep his eye on you.

It's beautiful. Thank you.

I won't disappoint you. Let's talk...

Enough! Stop it! Please!

Look, a rosary.

Michaela!

What are you doing here?

Papa...

- I don't know. There were... - What?

I heard voices and then I saw...

Sit down.

Be glad I woke up and not your mother.

That would have been it.

Let's go before the others come.

I'm sorry.

- So, I'm gonna cut it now. - Are you sure?

It can't be worse than before!

Or can it?

Hello. One, please.

Hello.

Beer, soda, cola?

- You want a beer? - Thanks.

I'd like a soda.

- Cheers! - Cheers!

How long have you been in Tübingen?

It's my first semester.

- What are you studying? - I want to be a teacher.

- You? - Chemistry.

- Great, right? - Well...

My father has a food additives company.

I'm supposed to take it over.

I have to go sell sandwiches.

Yes.

May I?

Sorry.

I want to dance.

Wake up! We're really late!

You better not have gone!

You sly cow!

Michaela! Shit! Wake up!

Let me go!

Come out of there.

There.

Thanks.

Why didn't you say? Epilepsy!

That's why you weren't at school.

I'm so sick of it.

Do you have a doctor here?

Forget it.

Know how many doctors I've had?

And in the end they have no idea.

Diagnosis by exclusion.

They try something to see if it works. Then you get new pills.

Always new ones.

Then new side effects and pills against them, too.

You have to accept that you're sick.

It's dangerous, Michaela!

No reason to keep secrets.

I'm ashamed of it.

You could have told me.

Swear not to tell.

If my parents find out I collapsed,

I'm done for.

I'll keep my mouth shut if you go to the doctor.

Michaela? In the middle of the week? That's a surprise!

Do you have a few minutes for me?

Peppermint?

Cat got your tongue?

You'll say I'm crazy,

but no one else'll understand.

If I'm to understand anything, you have to open your mouth.

In San Carlo...

I woke up in the night and

I couldn't touch the rosary any more.

I tried to, but there was something holding me back,

like I wasn't myself anymore.

And then it happened again.

Last night.

And there were hideous faces and voices

calling me a filthy slut.

You have no idea what I'm going through.

They come suddenly and

they're everywhere and I can...

close my eyes or try to hide,

but nothing helps, they keep yelling!

What do they yell? That you're a slut?

And that you shouldn't touch the rosary?

Don't make fun of me.

Do you have it here?