Born in Absurdistan
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Born in Absurdistan |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| length | 110 minutes |
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| Director | Houchang Allahyari |
| script | Houchang Allahyari, Agnes Pluch , Tom-Dariusch Allahyari |
| production | Dieter Pochlatko |
| music | Herbert Tucmandl |
| camera | Helmut Pirnat |
| cut | Charlotte Muellner |
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Born in Absurdistan is an Austrian film by Houchang Allahyari . The film was shot in the spring and summer of 1999 in Vienna, Drasenhofen and Turkey . The comedy produced by Epo-Film was funded by the Austrian Film Institute , the Vienna Film Fund and the ORF film television agreement. The film premiered in Vienna in November 1999.
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The Viennese civil servant Stefan Strohmayer becomes the father of a son. In the same hospital where his wife Marion was lying, the child of Turkish immigrants, the Dönmez family, was born around the same time. Numerous members of the extended Turkish family come into the room with their mother and are audibly happy about the offspring. This brings the officer Strohmayer, who paid for a single room, to an outburst towards an older nurse who had Ms. Dönmez put in the room with Ms. Strohmayer because there were no more rooms available in the hospital. In the course of this excitement, Strohmayer threatens the nurse that she will soon be out of her job and then picks up the wrong son, but neither of the parents notice anything.
The Turkish couple had great difficulties with the authorities and formalities in the days after the birth. You move and miss a registration deadline by two days. Therefore, they should be expelled in Austria after ten years, against which they lodge an objection - of all people with the civil servant Strohmayer. This assures you that everything is going well.
Shortly afterwards, a nurse involved in the mistake visits the Strohmayer family and explains to them about the mistake; she had trusted her older colleague, who wanted to correct the mistake. You go straight to the Dönmez family, but learn from a local resident that they have been deported. That's why Stefan Strohmayer made a spontaneous trip to Turkey with his wife and the baby in his father-in-law's Mercedes to look for their son without a prior blood test.
There they finally find the Dönmez family, who find it difficult to find their way in their old homeland. Over time, the respective parents find each other and begin to love both children. Finally, Emre Dönmez agrees to a blood test. This is to be carried out in Austria, which is why Strohmayer wants to smuggle the Dönmez family across the border. Everything goes well at first, but then the baby in the trunk starts crying and they are discovered.
Now Marion Strohmayer's influential father helps by giving the two families a tearful TV appearance, in which the Interior Minister promptly reports and announces an accommodating solution so that the Dönmez family can stay in Austria.
In the end, the older nurse explains to her younger colleague that she naturally swapped the babies back, but deliberately allowed this confusion to arise. The two fathers go to a test laboratory with their sons and ask themselves whether this is even necessary. On the spur of the moment, they turn back because they love both sons equally.
Reviews
The Kurier judged downright devastating in a criticism characterized as satire: “ A kindergarten group could predict the absolutely surprise-free turns in the choir without rehearsal and consultation; the drowned coincidences have the penetrance of uncollected garbage bags; naive merriment is howling. "(November 11, 1999, p. 30)
The Kronen Zeitung noted: “ A touching film that succeeds in showing how love brings people from different cultures together. "(November 11, 1999, page 25)
The standard called the film a “mediocre comedy” , which was “ ultimately more suitable for the TV market ”. (Nov 12, 1999, page 21)
The lexicon of international films writes: “Unsuccessful comedy about racism, narrow-mindedness and the question of what makes newborns the offspring of a family. The amateurish staging completely undermines the satirical potential of the story. "
Web links
- Born in Absurdistan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Born in Absurdistan at filmportal.de
- Born in Absurdistan in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Born in Absurdistan. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 6, 2017 .