MPAA Rating: R for strong graphic sexuality, pervasive language, some brutal violence and drug content.
Studio: Strand Releasing
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A marriage of convenience in Hamburg between two troubled Turks changes both their lives in this fine, gritty, contemporary love story. Director Fatih Akin dives deep into Turkish culture and explores the slippery slope of identity and cultural pride faced by Turks who either move to or are born in Germany. Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Set in Hamburg, this is the love story of two alienated Turkish-Germans, Cahit and Sibel, living between both cultures. Sibel is a beautiful 20-year-old, who, like Cahit, is of Turkish decent but far too into life to behave like a Muslim.
A suicide attempt was the one way Sibel thought she could escape the devout traditions placed on her by her parents. When that failed, her only other hope was to ask Cahit to marry her. He agrees, in hopes to save himself as well, but soon the two find each other sharing a residence, but little else.
Cahit and Sibel, both Germans with Turkish roots, marry formally to allow Sibel to break out of the strict rules of her conservative family. They share a flat, but she claims an independant sex life. Cahit takes that very easy in the beginning, but when he envies one of her lovers he kills him and has to go to prison.
Cahit is a German Turk at his late 30's. He has given up with his life after his beloved wife's death, and he's living a miserable life right in the core of cocaine and excessive drinking. One night, he semi-intentionally crashes into a wall, and barely survives. At the hospital he's taken to, he meets a girl, Sibel, another German Turk who's tried to commit suicide. She's sick and tired of her family's ultra-traditional issues, and asks Cahit to carry out a white marriage with her out of the blue, so that she can become a married woman and get rid of her family's revolting pressure.
Cahit is turned off by the idea at first, but then he agrees to take part in this plan. As Sibel tells him straightaway that she's interested in absolute freedom involving other men and he agrees, they live as roommates with separate private lives for a while. Then things take a different turn, and they're no longer two indifferent roommates. But their love story won't be anywhere as simple as any other...
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Cahit is a German Turk at his late 30's. He has given up with his life after his beloved wife's death, and he's living a miserable life right in the core of cocaine and excessive drinking. One night, he semi-intentionally crashes into a wall, and barely survives. At the hospital he's taken to, he meets a girl, Sibel, another German Turk who's tried to commit suicide. She's sick and tired of her family's ultra-traditional issues, and asks Cahit to carry out a white marriage with her out of the blue, so that she can become a married woman and get rid of her family's revolting pressure.
