Meet the leading actress Jacqueline Fritschi-Cornaz, playing Mother Teresa and the Swiss Indian writer/director Kamal Musale, at the premiere of Mother Teresa & Me that will take place on 28 December at the Ciné-Theatre cinema in Gstaad.

A story about compassion.
A tale of two women: Teresa and Kavita – passionate and uncompromising – woven over generations by intertwined stories. Both women achieve their vocation despite serious personal doubts. We discover Mother Teresa as the woman behind the myth in a new dimension. Her loss of faith inspires the wild Kavita, a young British woman of Indian origin, to discover true love and compassion in today’s Kolkata as Kavita returns to her birthplace to find solace in the arms of Deepali – her old nanny. Deepali had herself been adopted as a child by Mother Teresa when she started working in the slums in 1948. As Deepali narrates the stories of her past, Kavita starts to relive the beginnings of Teresa’s life in the slums of Calcutta.

In this epochal drama, we don’t meet Mother Theresa as a saint but as a real and vulnerable woman struggling with abandonment. She lost faith for the rest of her life and decided to hide this from everyone except a few confessors. To make Teresa’s example relevant today, the director lets us discover her through the eyes of Kavita, a modern young woman living in today’s western society. She is going through a similar pain in her life. The real human story of Mother Teresa inspires Kavita positively about how to go on with her pregnancy, her life, her lovers, and her family.

A Q&A with the audience is planned after the screening; Hansjörg Beck will moderate the evening. Ticket booking online https://www. cine-theater.ch/programm

Ciné Theatre Gstaad,
Suterstrasse 6,
3780 Gstaad