Das Geheimnis (1995)

Lydia lives with Sarah in a shared apartment in Berlin. After an argument, she broke up with her boyfriend Karlheinz, who had worked as a writer in Spain, but she occasionally lets him visit their apartment. While looking for a new lover, Lydia meets Walter, whom his friends jokingly call Vogelweide. Over breakfast together, Lydia, Sarah, Karlheinz, and Walter decide, out of boredom, to make an impromptu trip to visit Anita, a friend of Lydia’s who lives in Brandenburg. Anita is very religious and, as if by magic, gets the guests’ car—which has engine trouble—running again. At Anita’s farm, Karlheinz and Sarah grow closer. Lydia likes the farm so much that she stays there alone overnight while the others return to Berlin. That night, an unknown man visits Lydia and identifies himself as Jesus Christ. After they share dinner, the two have sex. The stranger tells Lydia that the secret of the universe is love. The next morning, the stranger is lying dead in bed. When the others return to Anita’s farm, Lydia lets them in on her secret, but the stranger has suddenly disappeared. Some time later, Lydia realizes that she is pregnant and therefore wants to name her son “Jesus.”