Enlightenment Guaranteed

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.

Cast

Uwe Ochsenknecht

as Uwe

Gustav Peter Wöhler

as Gustav

Petra Zieser

as Petra

Ulrike Kriener

as Ulrike

Heiner Lauterbach

as Heiner

Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht

Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht

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