PASSION PLAY

Once a decade, this town of 5000 performs the world's most magnificent production of the Passion Play... Things were going well for Oberammergau in the early 1630's. The small town was respected for their high quality wood carvings. On a successful sales trip through other parts of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, a woodcarver returned to the tiny hamlet in the Ammergau Alps with the plague. Within a year, a quarter of the population of Oberammergau had died. Not a single household escaped the suffering and loss...

Also known as: The Passion Play