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Director:

  Fatih Akin
  

Year Released:

  2004

Jan's Rating:

Rich's Rating:

4 out of 5

4 out of 5

Key Performances:

  Birol Ünel
  Catrin Striebeck
  Güven Kirac
  Meltem Cumbul
  Sibel Kekilli
Movie Haiku:Cahit (Unel), a widower medicating his rage with alcohol, meets Sibel (Kekilli) in a Hamburg psychiatric facility. Learning he’s Turkish too, she proposes a marriage of convenience to escape her family’s “old world” expectations. Akin creates a world so compelling that we desperately wanted this couple to beat the odds.

ADDITIONAL FF2 INFO ABOUT THIS FILM:

Women filmmakers?

  No

Jewish content?

  No

Haiku Posted:

  2005