We forgot to return
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| Original title | We forgot to return |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2001 |
| length | 60 minutes |
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| Director | Fatih Akin |
| script | Fatih Akin |
| production | Fidelis Lean |
| camera | Gordon A. Timpen |
| cut | Andrew Bird |
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We forgot to return is a documentary by Fatih Akin within an irregularly continued series of semi-documentary feature and television films of the Bavarian and West German broadcasts under the title Think I of Germany ...
The sixty-minute film from 2001 is the well-known feature film director's first documentary work. Starting in Hamburg-Altona , Akin tells the exemplary story of his parents' immigration backwards. The television film was also shown at festivals, e.g. B. as part of the 19th Munich Documentary Film Festival .
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In 1965, Akin's family answered the call to come to the Federal Republic of Germany as " guest workers " . First the father alone, after three years the mother followed. Initially, the stay in the foreign country was only planned for two years. For the father, almost inexplicably, it turned into thirty-five years: “We just forgot to return,” he comments, while still working in the same factory at the time the film was made, which he had been recruiting for in the 1960s, the unplanned long stay in Germany exemplary for many Turkish families.
With the help of interviews and anecdotes, Akin paints a complex picture of German-Turkish life in Germany and Turkey that looks different for each of his family members; The search for clues leads the director from his birthplace in Hamburg via Istanbul to the Turkish village where the Akın family comes from.
Reviews
"Now Akin has made a very personal immigration film from the perspective of the second generation and presents a complex picture of his family, who are at home in Germany and who have become partly foreign to Turkey, but who also question the loss of their cultural identity. For the children who speak German better than Turkish and who meanwhile regret this, the courage that was necessary at the time to build up an existence in a foreign culture only becomes clear in retrospect. "
“Akin's first documentary is smaller and quieter, but still a typical Akin story. This time the journey leads from Altona via Istanbul to the Turkish hometown of the Akin family - a mirror-inverted look back. The result is an atmospheric, very personal film about the director's family who responded to the call to come to Germany as guest workers in 1965. "
Web links
- We have to return forgotten in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- We forgot to return to the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ We forgot to return. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ cf. prisma.de