The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a prostitute forging a partnership, a young scholar reconciling his past, two young women falling in love, and a mother putting the shattered pieces of her life back together.
Director: Fatih Akin
Cast: Nurgül Yeşilçay, Baki Davrak, Patrycia Ziolkowska, Tuncel Kurtiz, Nursel Köse, Hanna Schygulla, Erkan Can, Nejat İşler
CinemaSerf - 7/10
This is quite a powerful full-circle drama that starts with a young but uninspired college professor “Nejat” (Baki Davrak) who disapproves of his widowed father (Tuncel Kurtis) inviting his prostitute friend to be his live-in lover. “Yeter” (Nursel Köse) isn’t just on the game for drugs and her pimp, she is determined that her daughter back home in Turkey will get the education she was denied and ...
April 2, 2026
The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a prostitute forging a partnership, a young scholar reconciling his past, two young women falling in love, and a mother putting the shattered pieces of her life back together.
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The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a prostitute forging a partnership, a young scholar reconciling his past, two young women falling in love,…
2h 2m
September 27, 2007
Fatih Akin
Nurgül Yeşilçay, Baki Davrak, Patrycia Ziolkowska
Drama
Yes, on Strand Releasing Amazon Channel
