Directed by:
Bora DagtekinComposer:
Michael BeckmannCast:
Josefine Preuß, Elyas M'Barek, Anna Stieblich, Pegah Ferydoni, Sonja Gerhardt, Katja Riemann, Günther Kaufmann, Annette Strasser, Arnel Taci, Eugen Bauder (more)Plots(1)
Lena Schneider doesn't have it easy. Frustrated by her life and "traumatized" by an anti-authoritarian upbringing, she is compelled by her mother Doris, a psychotherapist and teenage wannabe, to vacation in Southeast Asia. Her worst fear comes true during her flight - she is seated next to Cem Öztürk, a walking bundle of testosterone. It's a clash of German emancipation and Turkish machismo. As if it couldn't get any worse, their plane makes an emergency water landing. Lena now finds herself stranded on a deserted island with Cem, his devoutly religious sister Yagmur and a stuttering Greek, Costa. While they come to blows in this paradise, at a hotel Doris meets Metin Öztürk, the conventional-bourgeois father who is also in search for his children. (Berlinale)
(more)Reviews (1)
Suck Me Shakespeer is good enough advertising for this film, for which a lot of people on this site wrote scathing reviews, as could be expected. On the other hand, I admit that this comedy is not nearly as good as the Suck Me Shakespeer. But it has a number of elements that show some good work by Dagtekin and Elyas, because the comedy doesn’t lack their distinctive humor. So I really enjoyed it. The way Turks and Germans were leaning into each other was simply flawless. They can get even more brutal next time.
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