"Two Strangers in a Strange Land."
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.
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Uwe Ochsenknecht
Uwe
Gustav Peter Wöhler
Gustav
Petra Zieser
Petra
Ulrike Kriener
Ulrike
Heiner Lauterbach
Heiner
Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht
Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht
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