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German Cinema Now - Türkisch für Anfänger

  • Friday, June 26, 2015
  • 7:30 PM
  • DANK Haus
If you enjoyed our screening of "Fack Ju Göhte" in February, then you will also enjoy this movie. Türkisch für Anfänger is made by the same people and is just as hilarious.

Lena Schneider (Josefine Preuss) doesn't have it easy. Frustrated by life and by an anti-authoritarian education "traumatized," her mother Doris (Anna Stieblich), psychotherapist and professional youth worker, sentenced her to a vacation to South East Asia. In the airplane Lenas worst fears become real when she must sit next to the changing testosterone package Cem Öztürk (Elyas M'Barek).

German emancipation meets Turkish machismo. The disaster is perfect as the airplane must ditch and Lena suddenly finds herself on a desert island with Cem, his strict religious sister Yagmur (Pegah Ferydoni) and the stuttering Greeks Costa (Arnel Taci). While the teenagers open the slugfest in the pristine paradise, Doris meets the conventional bourgeois father Metin Öztürk (Adnan Maral) at a resort, also in search of his children.

The number of awards this movie received is an impressive list:

  • Best National Film - Bambi Awards
  • Best Director/Writer (Bora Dagtekin) - Bambi Awards
  • Best Actor (Elyas M'Barek) - Bambi Awards
  • Best Supporting Actor (Adnan Maral) - Bambi Awards
  • Best Actress (Josefine Preuß) - Bambi Awards
  • Best Supporting Actor (Anna Stieblich) - Bambi Awards
  • Audience Award (Bora Dagtekin) - Bavarian Film Awards
  • Best Feature Film Comedy (Beste Kinokomödie) - German Comedy Awards
  • Runner up for German Film of the Year - German Film Awards

Movie will be shown in German with English subtitles.

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