Police (film)
| Movie | |
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| German title | police |
| Original title | police |
| Country of production | FRG / Turkey |
| original language | Turkish , German |
| Publishing year | 1988 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Serif Brats |
| script | Huseyin Kuzu |
| production | Pentafilm |
| music | Timur Selçuk |
| camera | Erdal Kahraman |
| occupation | |
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Police is a Turkish comedy film made in Germany in 1988 by Hüseyin Kuzu (screenplay) and Şerif Gören (director). In the leading role of Köpenickiade is Kemal Sunal seen as a Turkish guest workers in Germany.
content
The likeable Berlin street sweeper Ali Ekber, an immigrant from Turkey, is a great friend of the art of acting and dreams of being an actor himself. At some point he joins one of the city's numerous immigrant amateur acting groups in order to get at least a little closer to this dream. When Ali is supposed to play a policeman there, he goes into this role, so much that he keeps his costume on on the way home. When the state official was also taken away from him in public, this led to a series of turbulent situations and Ali no longer wanted to detach himself from his role; in his apartment block he becomes an intermediary between German and Turkish fellow citizens. The latter soon show the strange policeman exaggerated respect and try to keep him warm with small presents.
background
Kemal Sunal was one of the most popular film comedians in Turkey at the time Police was made . Comedies or at least films with a humorous view of the so-called “German nationals” have existed in Turkey before. B. Gurbetçi Saban (1985) from Kartal Tibet or Dönüş (1972). For a long time, however, German cinema was completely ignorant of immigrant comedies. In Germany, the film, which ran successfully in Turkish cinemas at the end of the 1980s, only premiered eight years later on the Second German Television - in a version shortened by almost ten minutes.
A decade later, one of the police officers of Turkish origin who are now actually on duty in Germany, Berlin-based Murat Topal , draws from experience similar to the film hero and develops a successful comedy program.
criticism
"The ironic role-play opens up perspectives that go beyond the social realism of other migrant films of those years and undermine unambiguous assignments of ethnic and cultural identity in a carnival-like manner."
"The Turkish" Köpenickiade "sees itself as a plea for international understanding, but wastes many opportunities with its erratic staging."
Web links
- Police in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ police. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 16, 2017 .