Yasemin (film)

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Movie
Original title Yasemin
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1988
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Hark Bohm
script Hark Bohm
production Hark Bohm
music Jens-Peter Ostendorf
camera Sławomir Idziak
cut Moune Barius
occupation

Yasemin is a multi-award-winning German feature film from 1988 by Hark Bohm with Ayşe Romey and Uwe Bohm in the leading roles. It is considered a modern classic of children's and youth films .

Emergence

Extensive research by the filmmaker Bohm preceded the writing and staging of the film. He spoke to Turkish families in Germany, took part in their festivals and studied in detail the conflict between these “tightrope walkers between two cultures” (Lüdecke) in order to be able to depict the Turks in the film as differentiated as possible.

content

The film makes it clear that where cultures as different as German and Turkish collide, even perfect language skills can be pointless as long as there is no effort to achieve mutual intercultural understanding . It tells the love story between 17-year-old Yasemin, daughter of a Turkish immigrant in Germany, and Jan, a 20-year-old student from Hamburg-Altona who cares for a relaxed life . Her national origins had never played a special role in the life of the high school student. Due to the naive, but soon serious relationship between the hardworking pupil and the student, as this is not hidden from her family, she has to take note of her Turkish origin for the first time in an unpleasant way for her. Yasemin's father in particular, a hard-working greengrocer, cannot reconcile the lovers' relationships with the norms he had at the time: he plans to move his daughter, who was born and raised in Germany, to Turkey in order to finally end the relationship with the German. Yasemin and Jan respond at the last moment by fleeing. The emotionally very impressive final scene of the film leaves her further fate open.

criticism

  • film-dienst : The film touches on essential problems of understanding between Turkish children who grew up in Germany and their parents. It is told in the style of an exciting, occasionally touching film story and stimulates discussion.
  • epd Film 5/1988: … a fresh and enjoyable story told in which the foreigners do not have to appear in their role as a “fringe group”.

Lesson models for film

The film was widely used from the 90s in the German school classes to discussions between students from 12 years in relation to the Culture Clash to encourage in particular between German and Turkish culture. Well-known teaching models are:

  • Ulrich Ehlers: Yasemin. A film for twelve year olds. In: Teen Cinema. Film work between childhood and youth. Frankfurt a. M., Bundesverband Jugend und Film [Ed.], 1993, pp. 143–148
  • Classics of children's and youth films: teaching model for Yasemin, Praxis Deutsch 175, 2002

Prizes and awards

Yasemin received multiple awards and nominations.

Yasemin was the German proposal for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 1989 Academy Awards , but did not make it into the five nominated films.

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