Dealer
Produced by Käte Ehrmann; Sybille Hubatschek-Rahn With actors Tamer Yigit, Idil Üner and Birol Ünel available on VHS in Germany Can (Tamer Yigit) is a small time drug dealer on the streets of Berlin Schöneberg. He suffers from his miserable everyday existence as much as he does from the reproaches made by Jale (Idil Üner), […]
Der schöne Tag (A Fine Day)
With actors Serpil Turhan and Bilge Bingül A Fine Day is, after the films Geschwister and Dealer, the third part in a trilogy about the living conditions of Turkish youth growing up in Germany. Deniz is 21-years-old, lives in Berlin, works as a dubbing speaker and wants to become an actress. A Fine Day describes […]
Ordnung (Order)
With actors Ingrid Domann and Dagmar Hessenland Herbert ist Mitte vierzig, Bauingenieur – und bereit seit Monaten arbeitslos. Auf Drängen seiner Frau nimmt er einen Job an, für den er weit überqualifiziert ist. Nachdem er diese frustrierende Stelle aufgegeben hat, verbringt er seine Morgen damit, in aller Frühe durch die verlassenen Straßen Frankfurts zu streifen […]
Schatten der Zeit (Shadows of Time)
Produced by Anja Föringer With actors Tanishta Chatterjee, Prashant Narayanan, Tilotama Shome, Irfan Khan, Tumpa Das, Sikandar Agarwal Available on DVD in Germany Indien vor der Unabhängigkeit. Eine Teppichfabrik bei Kalkutta. Hier beginnt die tragische Liebesgeschichte von Ravi und Masha, die von ihren Eltern als Kinderarbeiter an die Fabrik verkauft wurden. Dem kleinen Ravi ist […]
Abschied von Gestern (Yesterday Girl)
With actors Hans Brammer and Ursula Dirichs Anita G. is a young East German woman who comes to West Germany in hopes of a better life. With no real home and no job, she gets into trouble with the law when she steals and is sent to prison. After her sentence, she has difficulty adjusting […]
Das serbische Mädchen (The Serbian Girl)
With actors Mirjana Jokovic, Ben Becker, Pascal Breuer The naive 18 year old Dobrila leaves her little Serbian village to travel to Hamburg, Germany, where her boyfriend lives. The trip is not easy. Finally in Hamburg she has to realize her boyfriend is not very interested in a relationship. She doesn’t tell him she’s pregnant […]
Drei gegen Troja (Three men against Troja)
With actors Lars Rudolph and Augustine Thullah Hussi Kutlucan, the Berlin-based Turkish writer, director and co-star of ‘Three against Troy’, has enormous vitality, black humour and a keen eye for the idiosyncrasies of different cultures. His film is a fast-paced road movie steeped in sinister intrigues, upstanding friendship and the fascination of the orient. Links: […]
Alles auf Zucker! (Go for Zucker)
With actors Henry Hübchen and Hannelore Elsner; available on DVD in Germany and U.S. Review by Jennifer Lau: Nothing brings an estranged family together like the death of a loved one and the subsequent promise of an inheritance. In Dani Levy’s 2004 comedy, Go for Zucker (Alles auf Zucker), two brothers are forced to overcome their animosity and reconcile […]
Babylon 2 – Das Mitte-Land (The Big Mid Land)
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Yugotrip
Der 26-jährige Bosnier Dejan lebt als Kriegsflüchtling in Köln. Traumatisiert von den furchtbaren Ereignissen in seiner Heimat, wird er von Halluzinationen und Wahnvorstellungen gequält. Auch als er die 20-jährige, aus behüteten Verhältnissen stammende Anna kennen lernt und sich in sie verliebt, kommt sein Seelenleben nicht zur Ruhe. Um Frieden zu bekommen, muss Dejan einen Weg […]