Salami Aleikum
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Salami Aleikum |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 106 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 0 JMK 0 |
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| Director | Ali Samadi Ahadi |
| script | Ali Samadi Ahadi Arne Nolting |
| production |
Oliver Stoltz Jan Krüger |
| music | Ali N. Askin |
| camera | Bernhard Jasper |
| cut | Jochen Retter |
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Salami Aleikum is a German film by the German- Iranian film director Ali Samadi Ahadi . The film started in Germany on July 23, 2009, the official cinema release in Austria was January 1, 2010. The multicultural film comedy tells the story of a Persian butcher family from Cologne, who traveled to East Germany and experienced and provoked a culture shock in a sleepy provincial village .
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The faint-hearted Mohsen Taheri prefers to spend his time knitting and cannot see blood. That is why he disgusts the butchery work of his father, who comes from Iran and has run a butcher's shop in Cologne for many years. When he had to take over the butcher's shop due to an official professional ban, he received an offer from a Pole to import meat-rich sheep from Poland, ready-slaughtered, which could then be sold in his butcher's shop. Mohsen gives the windy trader all of his savings and drives his father's old delivery van towards Poland, but ends up in a village in East Germany. He gets help from the car mechanic there, with whom he immediately falls in love. Strong mechanic Ana, who has grown significantly taller than Mohsen, used to be a successful shot putter in the GDR . Her career ended abruptly after the fall of the Wall, when her (ordered) doping offenses became public. Her great love, her trainer, left her (towards West Germany), which is why Ana is now extremely suspicious of all men, especially since she considers herself unattractive. So it is difficult for Mohsen to gain their trust. The villagers also treat him with suspicion and prejudice, until suddenly, through a misunderstanding, especially on the part of Ana's father, the village landlord, the hopeful suspicion arises that the young, clever Iranian is a potent investor who is filling the dilapidated textile factory in the village with life and jobs would like to. For the sake of Ana's love, Mohsen does not dispel false suspicions for the time being. From now on, Persian food is served in the village inn to ingratiate yourself with the guest.
When the car is repaired, Ana drives to Poland with Mohsen. There it turns out that he has been defrauded - there are only a few skinny sheep that he gets. Among them is a pregnant ewe that throws a cub during the crossing over the border, which is illegal due to the lack of import papers (which at the end reveals itself to be the (childlike) narrator who accompanied the entire film from the off).
Shortly afterwards, Mohsen's parents burst into the idyllic village, who came out of concern for their son's well-being. Mohsen does everything to ensure that his unsuspecting father doesn't gossip, who in the meantime has befriended Ana's father through a common weakness for army uniforms and schnapps. When Mohsen proposes marriage to Ana , the young man clears up the whole misunderstanding in front of everyone in the inn and admits that he had figured it out for some time. Thereupon Ana hits him on the chin and turns away, disappointed.
It takes a while until all the protagonists find each other again. So does Ana, who visits Mohsen in Poland, where he, also disappointed by Ana's stubbornness, has withdrawn. From the realization that the Iranian food in the village inn is a big hit, part of the old factory is turned into a lucrative Iranian-German cultural center, which is very popular.
The film is accompanied by short interludes in the style of typical Iranian video clips, whose kitschiness is an element of this comedy, which is intended to be comical for the German cinema audience . The actors are the protagonists of the film.
Locations u. a. Berlin, Brandenburg: Nauen, Kleinmachnow, Dahlewitz, Golzow, Velten, Rüdersdorf, Nudow
reception
- “Laughing attack against the fear of the stranger” THE STANDARD
- "Conclusion: imaginative and funny culture clash" KURIER
- “The clash of cultures has never been funnier.” CINEMA
- “The film offers pleasantly meaningless amusement for everyone who recently knew how to amuse themselves with similar films like Kebab Connection and Schnitzelparadies. However, it takes getting used to the numerous filmic special features, which in some places give rise to the suspicion that this originality is supposed to cover up the weaknesses of the plot. ”(INCREDIBLE CONVERSATION) Film blog
- "... as magical and creative as 'Amélie' from Montmartre." BLICKPUNKT FILM
- “Wonderfully incorrect. The clichés from both sides go into the big bag here, but the baseball club is not necessary. ”TAZ
- “... a richly detailed, wonderfully photographed fairy tale world, in which the characters appear cleverly and extremely lovingly overdrawn.” FRANKFURTER NEUE PRESSE
- “A multicultural fairy tale from the Wild East” FALTER
- “Salami Aleikum comes across as a satirically exaggerated and at the same time quite enjoyable game with clichés and prejudices. In its playfulness and undidactic lightness, it is quite a unique work in current German cinema. ”BERLINONLINE.DE
Awards
Salami Aleikum won the second prize of the Bernhard Wicki Film Prize and the NDR Film Prize for the next generation at the Emden-Norderney International Film Festival in 2009 . The film was nominated for the MFG star Baden-Baden 2009.
The film received the German Film Critics' Prize for 2009 in the Best Debut Film category at the Berlinale . In 2010 film composer Ali N. Askin was nominated for the German Film Prize. On May 9, 2012, Salami Aleikum received the CIVIS Media Prize for Integration .
Web links
- Salami Aleikum in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official German homepage of the film
- Official Austrian homepage of the film
- “Laughing attack against the fear of the stranger” - Interview with Michael Niavarani about his role in “Salami Aleikum” in Der Standard , December 29, 2009.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Age rating for Salami Aleikum . Youth Media Commission .
- ^ Brandenburg.de: Filmland Brandenburg 2008. Brandenburg, 2008, accessed on May 4, 2020 .
- ↑ the standard
- ↑ CINEMA.DE film review Salami Aleikum
- ↑ (Incomprehensible conversation) Film blog: Salami Aleikum
- ↑ salami-aleikum.at
- ↑ TAZ
- ↑ Berlinonline.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Berlinale: German Film Critics' Prize for "Salami Aleikum" on ORF on February 16, 2010, accessed on February 16, 2010
- ↑ Glitz, glamor and great honor . Civis media prize. May 9, 2012. Retrieved March 27, 2013.
