Cinnamon and coriander

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Movie
German title Cinnamon and coriander
Original title ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗ κουζίνα /
POLITIKI kouzína
Country of production Greece
original language Greek , Turkish , English
Publishing year 2003
length 103 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Tassos Boulmetis
script Tassos Boulmetis
production Harry Antonopoulos,
Lily Papadopoulos
music Evanthia Reboutsika
camera Takis Zervoulakos
cut Yorgos Mavropsaridis
occupation

Cinnamon and Coriander (original title in Greek ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗ κουζίνα POLITIKI kouzína ) is a Greek film from 2003 by director Tassos Boulmetis , who also wrote the screenplay.

action

Fanis Iakovidis is a Greek astrophysics lecturer who lives in Athens and has been an excellent cook since childhood, much to the family's displeasure. When his grandfather Vassilis, who was still living in Istanbul ( Constantinople ), fell ill, Fanis remembers his childhood, the expulsion from Turkey, cooking and his girlfriend Saïme, whom he was an adult woman and daughter at the end of the film, married to a military doctor in Ankara meets again in Istanbul, where he wants to teach as a visiting professor for a while.

Flashbacks tell how the Greek family lived in Constantinople in 1959, expelled to Greece in 1964 and received anything but friendly in Greece. In Constantinople they were considered Greeks, in Athens they are now considered Turks.

The film shows the problems of the Greek-Turkish conflict such as the Cyprus question along a family drama with many tragic, but also comical moments .

background

  • The play on words of the original film title is lost in the German, English and Turkish titles . The Greek title means in the spelling πολίτικη κουζίνα about kitchen of Constantinople (Constantinople is usually referred to in Greek as "η Πόλη" = "the city"), in the spelling "πολιτική κουζίνα" on the other hand "political cooking"; phonetically, the only difference between the two variants is the emphasis.
  • The Turkish-language title Bir tutam Baharat means as the English title A Touch of Spice ( A Touch of Spice )
  • The cinema release in Greece was on October 24, 2003. In Germany, the film was shown in cinemas on April 28, 2005.
  • The premiere in Austria took place on June 1, 2005, the film was shown in the original version with subtitles.
  • The story is divided into three chapters called The Starters (οι μεζέδες), The Main Course (το κύριο πιάτο) and The Desserts (τα γλυκά).

Reviews

“The film does memory work without encouraging revanchist feelings. Characterized by fine melancholy and humorous lightness, it tells unobtrusively about displacement and exile and makes the pain of homelessness palpable. "

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

At the Thessaloniki Film Festival 2003 the film won ten awards.

  • the Greek Competition Award for
    • Best Cinematography - Takis Zervoulakos
    • Best Director - Tassos Boulmetis
    • Best Editing - Yorgos Mavropsaridis
    • Best Fiction Film - Tassos Boulmetis
    • Best Music - Evanthia Reboutsika
    • Best Screenplay - Tassos Boulmetis
    • Best Set Design - Olga Leontiadou
    • Best Sound - Dimitris Athanassopoulos
  • the Audience Award
  • the Greek Union of Film and Television Technicians Award

The film was sent as a Greek competition entry for an Oscar in 2005 in the category Best Foreign Language Film , but was not nominated.

At the 4th Turkish-German film festival in Nuremberg in 2005, the film received the “Öngören Prize” for human rights.

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2004: "Variety Critics Choice Award" as one of the ten best European films of the year.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for cinnamon and coriander . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2005 (PDF; test number: 102 182 K).
  2. ↑ Cinnamon and Coriander. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used