LOVE, DEUTSCHMARKS AND DEATH
Germany / 2022 / 98'
LOVE, DEUTSCHMARKS AND DEATH
In the early 1960s, the so-called guest workers from Anatolia and other parts of Turkey were recruited by the Federal Republic of Germany. From the beginning, there was something that always accompanied them and was part of their culture: their music a piece of home in a foreign land. Over the years, independent musical directions developed in Germany that did not exist in this form in their home country. The exciting cinema documentary tells the unprecedented story of an independent musical culture of immigrants from Turkey, their children, and grandchildren in Germany in an entertaining and very complex way with never before seen archive footage.
Director: Cem Kaya
Script: Cem Kaya, Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay
Photography: Cem Kaya, Mahmoud Belakhel, Julius Dommer, Christian Kochmann
Editing: Cem Kaya
Sound: Fatih Aydin, Armin Badde, Tarik Badaoui, Thorsten Bolzé, Dalia Castel, Tim Gorinski, Cem Kaya, Kris Limbach, Jule Vari
Production: filmfaust GmbH
Co-production: Film Five GmbH
Selected filmography:
- Remake, Remix, Rip-Off (2014)
- Arabeks (2010)
Festivals and awards:
Berlinale – Panorama Audience Award for the Best Documentary Film, Germany (2022), DokFest Munich – Documentary Film Award of Goethe-Institut, Germany (2022), Doku Fest – Audience Award, Kosovo (2022), Documentarist – FIPRESCI Award, Türkiye (2022), Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic (2022), Sheffield Doc Fest, UK (2022), Docaviv, Israel (2022)
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