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Manika, the Girl Who Lived Twice

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In this unusual feature, Manika is a girl born in a Catholic family in a south Indian fishing village is convinced that she has recently had a former life as a Brahman wife in Nepal. Her parish priest, Father Daniel is under orders to convince her otherwise, as reincarnation does not accord with official Catholic doctrine. Instead, he agrees to journey with her to the site of her dreams of a previous life. Once there, they discover that all is just as she had dreamed it, and her former husband has remarried despite promising not to. Her arrival on the scene does not disturb the man, but it really upsets his new wife, who departs with her baby. Manika decides that it helps no one for her to remain there in Nepal, and returns to her home in the south. However, all this has caused a genuine crisis of faith for the priest who, witnessing all this, has had to grapple with some irreconcilable issues.

Directed byFrançois Villiers

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 46m
Language
FR
Released
May 26, 1989
Studios
Labrador FilmsAlmira Films

Featuring

Cast & crew

6 credited
Starring
Julian Sands

Julian Sands

Father Daniel Mahoney

Ayesha Dharker

Ayesha Dharker

Manika Kallatil

Stéphane Audran

Stéphane Audran

Sister Amanda

Jean-Philippe Écoffey

Jean-Philippe Écoffey

Father René

Suresh Oberoi

Suresh Oberoi

Ranjit

Saeed Jaffrey

Saeed Jaffrey

Creative team
Directed by
François Villiers
François Villiers
Written by
François Villiers
François Villiers
Jean-Pierre Gibrat

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