free admission
Saturday, 1 October 2005 | 16:00
Sunday, 2 October 2005 | 16:00
Monday, 3 October 2005 | 16:00
92 min., Germany, 1998
Written and directed by: Hussi Kutlucan
Featuring: Hussi Kutlucan, Senta Moira, Özay Fecht, Wiebke Inn, Heinz-Werner Kraehkamp, Moutlak Osman, Augustine Thulah…
An African, an Iranian and an old Armenian accomodate Dudie in their one-room apartment and find him badly paid work on a big construction site at the Reichstag in Berlin. Among the foreign labourers from a wide range of countries, there is a rigid pecking order. The German boss (played by Heinz-Werner Kraehkamp) is always yelling hysterically and the perfectly assimilated Turks are the first to call for “foreigners out” in a loud voice. At times, the building site is like a madhouse. When Dudie organizes a strike to demand payment of outstanding wages, he makes new friends, but unfortunately the police soon puts an end to all the craziness. Even after he is forced to flee, Dudie, the gifted storyteller whose talents are not lost on older women either, manages to thread his way through the jungle of illegality in Germany. He becomes a great surrogate father for the son of his German girlfriend Nina and finds work in a Turkish restaurant. But here too, things soon start to go wrong again. (Press release)
Hussi Kutlucan, born under a bridge by the river Euphrat, East Turkey, lives in Berlin
Film Programme
of the exhibition “Urban Realities: Focus on Istanbul”