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Enlightenment Guaranteed

“Two Strangers in a Strange Land.”

1999 · 1 h 49 min
Directed by Doris Dörrie
ComedyDrama

Cast

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Plot

Two middle-aged German brothers visit a Japanese Zen monastery, and are shaken by the strictness and humor of the place.

Sinekatalog’s take

Doris Dörrie's comedy, Erleuchtung garantiert, with Uwe Ochsenknecht and Gustav-Peter Wöhler, is warm and funny, a light culture-clash film.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 7.2 / 10 (1,412 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.