Kebab Connection

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Movie
Original title Kebab Connection
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2005
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 6
Rod
Director Anno Saul
script Fatih Akın
Ruth Toma
Jan Berger
production Stefan Schubert
Ralph Schwingel
Dirk Hamm
music Marcel Barsotti
camera Hannes Hubach
cut Tobias Haas
occupation

The film Kebab Connection is an intercultural German comedy from 2005. Denis Moschitto and Nora Tschirner play the leading roles , directed by Anno Saul .

Emergence

Fatih Akın had the idea of ​​a first German Kung Fu film for a long time . From this, the story, alienated into understatement, developed about an amateur filmmaker from Hamburg's Schanzenviertel who shoots commercials for the local cinema, but at the same time sees himself as the future Bruce Lee of German cinema.

action

The 21-year-old Bruce Lee and Jet Li enthusiast İbrahim, İbo for short, from Hamburg's Schanzenviertel aims to go down in film history as the maker of the first German Kung Fu movie. İbo gets closer to his goal with a commercial that he shoots for his uncle Ahmet's kebab shop. But this commercial for two handfuls of kebab, which resembles a highly professional Kung-Fu film, is initially absolutely not to Uncle Ahmet. The cinema audience, on the other hand, reacted enthusiastically and from then on flocked to Ahmet's kebab shop King of Kebab after the cinema shows . Suddenly Ahmet also has a weakness for his nephew's commercials and İbo already sees himself as a future Oscar winner.

Meanwhile, İbo's friend Titzi is taking an entrance exam for drama school. She counters the joy of İbo's sudden star fame with an unwanted pregnancy. When the future father needs some time to understand his fatherhood and therefore initially does not react appropriately to the seriousness of the matter, a break occurs between Titzi and Ibo.

Not only does İbo have to move out of the shared apartment, his father also casts him out. Because father Mehmet can barely agree to a German friend of his son, but does not see her as the mother of his grandchildren. His grandchild would say Papi to İbo instead of Baba and would not speak a word of Turkish. The rest of the more level-headed part of the family can hardly do anything against Mehmet's subsequent rage.

Meanwhile, with his childhood friends, the Greek Lefty and the Albanian Valid, İbo sets various unsuccessful plans in motion to at least win his Titzi back for himself. The road to the inevitable happy ending will be hard and rocky.

Remarks

The film was shot on original locations in Hamburg's Schanzenviertel

The film was shot on original locations in Hamburg's Schanzenviertel , one of Hamburg's multicultural centers.

The Turkish actor Güven Kıraç, who plays the head of the family Mehmet, couldn't speak a word of German at the time of filming and has therefore learned all of his text by heart to the letter.

Well-known actress Sibel Kekilli has a small guest role in this film. Other minor characters play for example Adnan Maral or Nursel Köse, who is also successful as a cabaret artist .

criticism

The film was received positively across the board: For Marguerite Seidel, "Anno Saul confidently and punchily transfers the genre of transcultural comedy based on the foreign models [...] into Germany today". For Stefan Lange vom Stern "wins (the story) through the furious narrative speed of the film and the variety of characters". Philipp Bühler from the Berliner Zeitung points out: "If a parallel society is at work here, then it is that of a gang of lively filmmakers who deal with reality in an extremely unrealistic way: namely productively and with humor." The taz described Kebab Connection as "the best Fatih Akın comedy […] that Fatih Akın did not shoot himself ”and praises the actors who are excellent right down to the secondary characters. The film-dienst , on the other hand, particularly emphasized the performance of the leading actors, but also that the dialogues were "surprisingly funny and grotesque".

Others

Years before the film was made into the film, Sinan Batteries shot the award-winning short film Lassie (2002) based on motifs from the script by Kebab Connection .

The film's web presence was nominated for the Grimme Online Award in 2005.

See also

Web links

Remarks

  1. Age rating for Kebab Connection . Youth Media Commission .