Kanak attack

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Movie
Original title Kanak attack
Country of production Germany
original language German , Turkish
Publishing year 2000
length 84 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Lars Becker
script Lars Becker and Bernhard Wutka based on a novel and a script by Feridun Zaimoğlu
production Christian Becker ,
Thomas Häberle
music Hinrich Dageföhr ,
Frank Wulff ,
Sefan Wulff
camera Hannes Hubach
cut Marco Pav D'Auria and Oliver Gieth
occupation

Kanak Attack is a German literary film adaptation by Lars Becker from the year 2000. It is based on the novel Scum - The True Story of Ertan Ongun (1997) by Feridun Zaimoğlu .

content

Created as an episode film, Kanak Attack, like its template , tells the life of Ertan and Kemal, two young Kielers of Turkish descent of the second and third generation in a criminal milieu. While Ertan's father still has an honest job, Ertan's and Kemal's life consists of drug trips, drug deals, collecting money and the occasional armed robbery. Ertan does not describe his life as “history”, but rather as a “condition”. The film begins with the death of a friend who works as a pimp and who is shot by a seedy pawnbroker over a dispute over a Rolex. The two prostitutes Sandra and Yonca are looking for Ertan as their new protector, but he is not enthusiastic about the idea. Ertan and Kemal then clash with the Turk Attila, who runs a brothel, who would like to take over the prostitutes himself. Ertan and Kemal raid a game library in a drug frenzy and get into police custody. There Kemal is beaten up by the police and deported to Turkey. Ertan visits him in Istanbul and starts new drug deals: He plans to smuggle drugs from Turkey to Germany. When he returned to Germany, the situation between him and Attila escalated. Attila tries to murder Ertan and in later clashes Attila and his thug kill Ertan's friend Mehdi. Ertan and Kemal, who has since returned to Germany, are charged with drug trafficking, and after Kemal testifies against Ertan, they are both sentenced to prison terms. Yonca, who seems to be in love with Ertan, visits him in prison. However, he treats her dismissively because she does not want to smuggle drugs for him. When Kemal and Ertan are released, they continue their criminal lives. After a not very lucrative robbery on a fast food restaurant, they meet Attila again. It comes to a showdown between Ertan, Kemal and Attila. Kemal is shot - unclear whether accidentally by Ertan or Attila - whereupon Ertan shoots Attila. Ertan ends up in an interrogation cell and speaks to the police.

structure

The film consists of 13 episodes.

Reviews

In Kanak Attack, Blickpunkt Film saw “modern and highly topical, gripping and fast-paced cinema that is formally reminiscent of Tom Tykwer's Run Lola Run , but has much more to offer in terms of substance and fuel”. Even the Tagesspiegel felt reminded of “the vital, trashy US blacksploitation films of the seventies” and stated: “Minorities also have a right to crime.” The film service , however, saw “a (...) image that reinforces prejudice .” the (petty criminals) second and third Turkish migrant generations, which is not caught by (a) dramaturgically skilful genre mix. "

effect

Kanak Attack was relatively successful in German cinemas and was also shown at festivals and in other languages. Like the author's early books, the film has brought the special linguistic world of the young migrants portrayed into the "pan-German consciousness."

A DVD and an original soundtrack were released in 2001.

Kanak Attack - The Third Turkish Siege?

Feridun Zaimoglu later created Kanak Attack under the title . The third siege by the Turks was also a visual work of art that received a lot of attention in the media. It was a flag installation by the writer on the facade of the Kunsthalle Wien from March 7th to 28th, 2005, which was realized in cooperation with the Wiener Literaturmärz, the Alte Schmiede Wien and MQ, and in some cases triggered violent reactions. Zaimoglu, who himself claims that flags are less important to him than a blank sheet of paper, hung the facade in the inner courtyard of the art gallery with four hundred and twenty Turkish flags. The installation was made in the run-up to the literature festival Islam and Occident. The origin of the west presented. Its subtitle was The Third Siege of the Turks? formulated as a question. As a goal, the artist gave u. a. to want to clarify subliminal fears on this topic to the viewer, the interpretation left the interpretation largely open. Art gallery director Gerald Matt saw the project as a contribution to the "controversial debates about the EU enlargement negotiations with Turkey", the political, symbolic and aesthetic challenges of which would be addressed in this way. The cost of the tax-financed flag project amounted to 40,000 euros. The Berliner Zeitung reported that “the Viennese who have been deeply traumatized since 1529, but no later than 1683 until today” were “shocked” by the action. Heinz-Christian Strache from the right-wing populist FPÖ also expressed himself angrily (“What would be going on in Turkey if, for example, Hagia Sophia was wrapped with Austrian flags?”) And called on those responsible to stop the project because it was stirring up xenophobia . The slogan Vienna must not be Istanbul was developed in advance of the campaign . The call for the director of the Kunsthalle to be removed was also loud. Robert Steinle from Wiener Lloyd said, “Against the background of current debates in Austria it was (...) easy to attract the necessary public, or should one say unnecessary, attention. In any case, the provocateur's calculation worked out perfectly. ”However, this hardly contributed to integration. In retrospect, however, the ORF assesses the effect of the action differently: “At the latest since the art action by the Turkish-German author and artist Feridun Zaimoglu, who was part of his project KanakAttack - The Third Turkish Siege? decorated the entire facade of the Kunsthalle wing in Vienna with small Turkish flags, the subliminal fears of the people became clear. With the massive symbolic presence of the Turkish flag, the project was primarily intended to draw attention to the fact that not only are more than 50,000 people with a Turkish migration background living in Vienna, but that this population group also helps shape everyday life in Vienna; a fact that is often suppressed. ”In 2008, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung also recognized a historical dimension in the action:“ In the year (...) 420 blood-red flags with the Turkish crescent blossomed on the facade of the Vienna Kunsthalle. " The third Turkish siege is what the German-Turkish writer Feridun Zaimoglu called his installation. This courage was promptly rewarded with an appropriate reaction: Vienna must not become Istanbul , was the slogan of an FPÖ poster campaign. The simultaneity of epochs and the present of history could not have been better expressed.

In Zaimoglu's home town of Kiel, a similar action at the theater there had not triggered any public discussion years earlier. Zaimoglu commented on this: “Vienna has felt its historical enemy in the past. The turban ottoman during the Turkish siege is not just any chapter in the history books, but very present in the popular consciousness. In this respect, the action is an awakening of the good and the bad spirits. Now the Viennese are rubbing their eyes and asking themselves: 'Have we done all this so that some crazy German-Turk will come along and hang up the insignia of hostile power?' "

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Single receipts

  1. ↑ Kanak Attack ( memento from February 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) in the Dirk Jasper FilmLexikon
  2. ↑ http://www.complit.fu-berlin.de/gastvortraege/gastprofessur/zaimoglu.html
  3. ↑ I am a local patriot . In: Falter 10/2005 of March 9, 2005 ( Memento of January 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive )