Happy Birthday, Türke! (Happy Birthday, Turk!)
With actors Meret Becker, Hansa Czypionka, Özay Fecht available on DVD in Germany This Teutonic film noir received its first U.S. showing at the Seattle Film Festival. Hansa Czypionka plays Kemal Kayankaya, a Turk who speaks no Turkish. Raised in Germany by German parents, he is virtually man without a country, shunned not only by […]
Kebab Connection
With actors Denis Moschitto, Nora Tschirner, Hasan Ali Mete, Cem Akin, Nursel Köse, Güven Kiraç Available on DVD in Germany and the US Links: IMDB, German-Films.de Genre(s): Comedy; Theme(s): Ethnicity; Spatial or Temporal Spaces and Borders Review by Sara Sellami: Kebab Connection is a comedy by Anno Saul, a German film director, and was released in 2005. […]
November
Kurz-Dokumentarfilm My best friend when I was 17, was a girl called Andrea Wolf. She died in 1998, when she was shot as a Kurdish terrorist in Eastern Anatolia. There was a warrant out for her in Germany, as she was suspected of having participated in terrorist activities, for example the complete destruction of the […]
Warheads
Available on DVD Romuald Karmakars Dokumentarfilm porträtiert einen deutschen Ex-Fremdenlegionär sowie einen englischer Söldner. Der 53-jährige Günter Aschenbrenner wurde in der französischen Fremdenlegion ausgebildet, errichtete Raketenstartbasen in Libyen und im Kongo und war in Guyana selbst Ausbilder für Fremdenlegionäre. Er berichtet offen, ausführlich und nicht frei von Stolz über seine Kampferfahrung in Afrika. Der jüngere […]
Ein ganz gewöhnlicher Jude (Just an Ordinary Jew)
With actors Emanuel Goldfarb Available on DVD in Germany Basierend auf dem Buch des Schweizer Autors Charles Lewinsky steht im Mittelpunkt des Ein-Personen-Films “Ein ganz gewöhnlicher Jude” ein jüdischer Journalist namens Emanuel Goldfarb, der eingeladen wird, an einer Schule über seinen Alltag als “jüdischer Mitbürger” zu sprechen. Goldfarb, der das Ganze für eine idiotische Idee […]
J’ai pas sommeil (I Can’t Sleep)
Produced by Bruno Pesery With actors Katerina Golubeva, Richard Courcet, Vincent Dupont, Laurent Grevill, Alex Descas, Irina Grejbina, Tolsty, Line Renaud, Beatrice Dalle available on DVD (US) This French drama uses two plots that occasionally come together. The stories are set within the multiethnic neighborhoods of Paris. In the first, Daiga (Yekaterina Golubeva), a spunky […]
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 […]
Gölge – Zukunft der Liebe (Shadow)
With actors Semra Uysal and Yüksel Topcugürler Links: Film Portal