# The Rite - Das Ritual (2011)

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**Original title**: *The Rite*
**Runtime**: 114 min
**Genres**: Drama, Thriller, Horror
**Directed by**: Mikael Håfström
**Written by**: Michael Petroni
**Starring**: Anthony Hopkins, Colin O'Donoghue, Alice Braga, Rutger Hauer, Ciarán Hinds, Toby Jones

> *You can only defeat it when you believe.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Vatican halls winter darkness a solitary bell tolls 
Michael Kovak among solemn seminarians 
Mikael Håfström helms this eerie thriller.

**Mood tags**: dread, gut-punch, paranoid

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