---
title: 'Enlightenment Guaranteed (1999)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Doris Dörrie'
released: '1999-10-30'
runtime_minutes: 109
genres:
  - 'Comedy'
countries:
  - 'Germany'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/enlightenment-guaranteed-1999'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177749/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Enlightenment Guaranteed (1999)

1999 · 109 min · Comedy · Germany

Original title: Erleuchtung garantiert

## Synopsis

Erleuchtung garantiert is a 1999 German film directed by Doris Dörrie about two brothers, Uwe and Gustav, who travel to Japan in order to find themselves. The two plan to retreat for a while at the Sōji-ji Monastery in Monzen, Ishikawa in the Noto Peninsula, well away from Tokyo. On their way there, in a rather literal Buddhist moment, the brothers lose all of their belongings. When they finally make it to the monastery, they find that even there, enlightenment can be elusive.

## Credits

- **Producer:** [Franz Xaver Gernstl](https://cinepixo.com/people/franz-xaver-gernstl)
- **Director:** [Doris Dörrie](https://cinepixo.com/people/doris-dorrie)
- **Screenplay:** [Doris Dörrie](https://cinepixo.com/people/doris-dorrie)
- **Editor:** [Inez Regnier](https://cinepixo.com/people/inez-regnier)

## Cast

- [Gustav Peter Wöhler](https://cinepixo.com/people/gustav-peter-wohler)
- [Petra Zieser](https://cinepixo.com/people/petra-zieser)
- [Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht](https://cinepixo.com/people/jimi-blue-ochsenknecht)
- [Ulrike Kriener](https://cinepixo.com/people/ulrike-kriener)
- [Heiner Lauterbach](https://cinepixo.com/people/heiner-lauterbach)
- [Uwe Ochsenknecht](https://cinepixo.com/people/uwe-ochsenknecht)
- [Franz Xaver Gernstl](https://cinepixo.com/people/franz-xaver-gernstl)
- [Anica Dobra](https://cinepixo.com/people/anica-dobra)
- [Wilson Gonzalez](https://cinepixo.com/people/wilson-gonzalez)

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