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Reise der Hoffnung (1990)
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26 April 1991 (USA)
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The story of a turkish poor family who tries to emigrate illegaly to Switzerland. full summary | add synopsis
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Switzerland
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Turkey
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Dead Child
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Snow
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Smuggling
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Won Oscar.
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1 nomination
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A moving story about the illegal inmigration
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Necmettin Çobanoglu | ... | Haydar Sener | |
| Nur Sürer | ... | Meryem | |
| Emin Sivas | ... | Mehmet Ali | |
| Erdinc Akbas | ... | Adama (as Erdinç Akbas) | |
| Yaman Okay | ... | Türkmen | |
| Yasar Güner | ... | Haci Baba (as Yasar Gner) | |
| Hseyin Mete | ... | Selçuk | |
| Yaman Tarcan | ... | Ilyas | |
| Selahattin Firat | ... | Grandfather | |
| Meryem Çaki | ... | Grandmother | |
| Mustafa | ... | Children | |
| Mehmet | ... | Children | |
| Fatma | ... | Children | |
| Sükran | ... | Children | |
| Zeynep | ... | Children |
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Argentina:109 min | USA:110 min
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Featured in The 79th Annual Academy Awards (2007) (TV)
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| True story? And what happened to the family in real life? | kedem524 |
| The end of 'Journey of hope' | lexlady |
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As in Argentina, France, Italy, Spain and United States, among other, they suffer of the illegal immigration. This movie transports us toward Switzerland, country recognized by its neutrality and hospitality toward the rest of the world. The main characters are a family of Turks that they yearn to be able to go to the earth of their dreams: Switzerland, to feel well, since Turkey is not very economically and labor. All clever one so that Haydar and their wife can carry out their dream, carried out passports, passages... but they will have a complication, they will take to one of their children: Mehmet Ali. Of a supposition trip of pleasure toward the "earth of their dream" will go by unexpected situations, as to travel in an export craft or to try to enter to Switzerland in hidden truck, since Mehmet Ali doesn't possess neither passage neither passport. They will be in the same situation that other immigrants that want to enter there; they will go by the Alps, a beautiful place but at the same time cold and where they will happen totally unexpected situations. Xavier Koller obtains with "Journey of Hope" an astonishing realization that makes us see that each one has the dream of being able to go to the place that offers them peace, but that they will also go by unexpected moments, with an end that could be unexpected for the spectator. Deserved of the Oscar like Best Foreign Language Film 1990/1991. My opinion: Wonderful, Human, One of the Best Foreign Film Oscar winner. Don't get lost it.