* Berlin offerings on fourth day at extremes of cinema taste
* Von Trier's "Nymphomaniac" being shown out of competition
* German film shows teenage girl's trauma in Catholic family
By Michael Roddy and Gareth Jones
BERLIN, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Films at the extremes of the
cinema agenda, one a German-made look at an adolescent girl's
tortured life in a strict Catholic family, the other director
Lars von Trier's "Nymphomaniac", highlighted day four of the
Berlin film festival on Sunday.
Von Trier's film starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and an
extended list of movie world notables as her sexual partners,
drew long queues to cinemas, even though it is being shown out
of competition.
The pairing of the Danish director's steamy opus with the
German-made "Kreuzweg" ("Stations of the Cross") about a
Catholic family bringing up their daughter in a strict religious
environment, made for an odd juxtaposition, but one the film's
director, Dietrich Bruggemann, seemed to relish.
"Our religion is cinema and this is the cathedral and that's
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