Dealer (1999)

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Movie
Original title Dealer
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1999
length 74 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Thomas Arslan
script Thomas Arslan
production Kate Ehrmann
camera Michael Wiesweg
cut Bettina Blickwede
occupation

Dealer is a German film by Thomas Arslan from 1999. It is the second part of Arslan's “Berlin Trilogy”, to which, in addition to siblings - Kardeşler (1997), the film Der Schöne Tag (2001) belongs. The film series captures the lives of young people of Turkish origin of the second and third generation in the capital. Like the other parts , Dealer was produced for the ZDF series Das kleine Fernsehspiel .

action

The film shows the petty criminal Can, a dealer who gets by more badly than right, and his futile efforts to escape the unsuitable environment for his young family. Can is eventually abandoned by his wife and daughter, arrested and sent to jail.

Awards

  • Berlin International Film Festival 1999:
    • FIPRESCI Prize Forum of New Cinema
    • Prize of the Ecumenical Jury Forum of New Cinema

criticism

"A precisely developed existentialist story far removed from any external drama, which shows the situation of a person in a very differentiated way, for whom all ties and (life) goals are lost."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. arte-TV: DVD-News - Dealer ( Memento from January 17th, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  2. Dealer. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used