Jesus – The Film

Jesus – The Film

Jesus – The Film

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Jesus – The Film

1986

2h 5m

8.1(5 votes)

Overview

The joint high mess of 80s German underground: An exercise in exquisite corps (and in some cases probably also automatic writing) for which artists from both nations shot episodes from the Good Book - not necessarily following the text too closely.

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