HUPE Film- und Fernsehproduktion

Germany 2012, 90 min
by Hendrik Lietmann, Matthias Tränkle

MORE JESUS tells the story of the charismatic and ambitious preacher Edmund Sackey-Brown from Ghana who wants to establish a 5,000-capacity megachurch in the German Ruhr region. His vision seems to be foolhardy and hopeless as the number of believers in this country has steadily decreased since the 1960s and churches are being closed. Yet, Edmund believes in the breakthrough of his idea along the lines of the Pentecostal churches in the United States and in Africa, where some churches have more