Nejat seems disapproving about his widower father Ali’s choice of prostitute Yeter for a live-in girlfriend. But he grows fond of her when he discovers she sends money home to Turkey for her daughter’s university studies. Yeter’s sudden death distances father and son. Nejat travels to Istanbul to search for Yeter’s daughter Ayten. Political activist Ayten has fled the Turkish police and is already in Germany. She is befriended by a young woman, Lotte, who invites rebellious Ayten to stay in her home, a gesture not particularly pleasing to her conservative mother Susanne. When Ayten is arrested and her asylum plea is denied, she is deported and imprisoned in Turkey. Lotte travels to Turkey, where she gets caught up in the seemingly hopeless situation of freeing Ayten.
Best Script Award, Cannes Film Festival 2007
Beste Film 2007 Unie van de Filmkritiek – Belgische Filmcritici
120 min., German (Dutch subtitles)
Director and script: Fatih Akin
Production: Duitsland, 2007
With: Tuncel Kurtiz (Ali Aksu), Nursel Köse (Yeter öztürk), Patrycia Ziolkowska (Lotte Staub), Hanna Schygulla (Susanne Staub), Nurgül Yesilcay (Ayten öztürk), Baki Davrak (Nejat Aksu), e.a.
35mm Cinéart
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