Almanya - La mia famiglia va in Germania (2011)

Protagonista del film è la famiglia Yilmaz, emigrata in Germania dalla Turchia negli anni 60 e giunta ormai alla terza generazione. Dopo una vita di sacrifici, il patriarca Hüseyin ha finalmente realizzato il sogno di comprare una casa in Turchia e ora vorrebbe farsi accompagnare fin lì da figli e nipoti per risistemarla. Malgrado lo scetticismo iniziale, la famiglia al completo si mette in viaggio e alle nuove avventure nella terra d’origine si intrecciano i ricordi tragicomici dei primi anni in Germania (Almanya in turco), quando la nuova patria sembrava un posto assurdo in cui vivere. Lungo il tragitto, però, vengono a galla molti segreti del passato e del presente e tutta la famiglia si troverà ad affrontare la sfida più ardua: quella di restare unita.

IMDB Rating: 7.3/10

.: English Synopsis :.
On 10 September, 1964, Germany’s one-millionth ‘guest worker’ was welcomed. Spanning a period of no less than forty-five years, this film by sisters Yasemin Samdereli (director) and Nesrin Samdereli (screenplay) tells the story of guest worker number one-million-and-one – a man named Hüseyin Yilmaz and his family. ‘Who or what am I – German or Turk?’ asks six-year-old Cenk Yilmaz when neither his Turkish nor his German schoolmates pick him for their respective football teams. In an attempt to comfort Cenk, his 22-year-old cousin Canan tells him the story of their grandfather Hüseyin, who came to Germany at the end of the sixties as a ‘guest worker’ and who later brought his wife and children to ‘Almanya’. Germany had long since become the family’s home when without warning one night, Hüseyin surprises his loved ones with the news that he has bough a house in Turkey and now wants to return to the old country. Refusing to brook the slightest opposition, the entire family set off for Turkey. This marks the beginning of a journey full of memories, arguments and reconciliations – until, that is, the family trip takes an unexpected turn … The young filmmakers have plundered their own memories of childhood and youth for this, their cinematic debut. Yasemin Samdereli: “Even at an early age, we were always struck by the way people found it amusing whenever we told them stories about our childhood: that Nesrin for instance once played German carnival figure ‘Funkenmariechen’ and used to belt out Catholic hymns fervently during mass. Or that I used to play the flute in a marching band and wrote my name Jasmin – until my second grade teacher torpedoed my attempts to hoodwink her.”





TITOLO ORIGINALE: Almanya - Willkommen in Deutschland
USCITA CINEMA: 06/12/2011
GENERE: Commedia
REGIA: Yasemin Samdereli
SCENEGGIATURA: Yasemin Samdereli, Nesrin Samdereli
ATTORI:
Vedat Erincin, Fahri Ogün Yardim, Lilay Huser, Demet Gül, Aylin Tezel, Denis Moschitto, Petra Schmidt-Schaller, Rafael Koussouris, Aliya Artuc, Kaan Aydogdu
Ruoli ed Interpreti

FOTOGRAFIA: Ngo the Chau
MONTAGGIO: Andrea Mertens
MUSICHE: Gerd Baumann
PRODUZIONE: Roxy Film (Andreas Richter, Ursula Woerner, Annie Brunner)
DISTRIBUZIONE: Teodora Film
PAESE: Germania 2011
DURATA: 97 Min
FORMATO: Colore 35mm – 2.35:1

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