Fremde Haut (2005)

Director:

Angelina Maccarone

Writers:

Judith Kaufmann (writer)
Angelina Maccarone (writer)

Release Date:

20 October 2005 (Germany)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

The educated Fariba Tabrizi flies from Teheran to Germany expecting to have asylum, since she is persecuted...

Plot Keywords:

Refugee | Suicide | Refugee Camp | Cabbage | Factory

Awards:

1 win & 3 nominations

Cast

Jasmin Tabatabai	...	Fariba Tabrizi
Navíd Akhavan	...	Siamak
Bernd Tauber	...	Beamter BAFL
Majid Farahat	...	Dolmetscher
Georg Friedrich	...	Burkhardt
Atischeh Hannah Braun	...	Alev
Mikail Dersim Sefer	...	Cem
Haranet Minlik	...	Velma
Homa Tehrani	...	Stimme Shirins (voice)
Frank Frede	...	Beamter BGS
Barbara Falter	...	Beamtin BGS
Ruth Wohlschlegel	...	Frau Gabriel
Yevgeni Sitokhin	...	Maxim
Dmitriy Dykhovichnyy	...	Dmitri
Dominik Glaubitz	...	Pfarrer

Also Known As:

In Orbit (Germany) (working title)
Unveiled (USA)

Runtime:

97 min

Country:

Germany | Austria

Language:

German | Persian | English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Brazil:14 | Germany:12 | Australia:MA (TV rating)

Filming Locations:

Filderstadt, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Company:

MMM Film Zimmermann & Co.

Trivia:

The term "in orbit" is officially used by the UN to refer to asylum-seekers who find themselves orbiting around planet Earth because they can actually find legal domicile nowhere at all.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Schau mir in die Augen, Kleiner (2007)

Stunningly beautiful portrait of an Iranian refugee struggling between survival in small-town Germany and her love for a local woman

Director Angelina Maccarone (EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE), winner 1998 Outfest Audience Award) returns with UNVEILED, a stunningly beautiful portrait of an Iranian refugee struggling between survival in small-town Germany and her love for a local woman.

Fariba, persecuted in Iran because of a lesbian relationship, flees to Germany but her application for asylum is rejected. When her fellow inmate, a man named Siamak, commits suicide, Fariba assumes his identity and is sent to a refugee camp in a small German village. At first her survival seems assured, but the strain of upholding her male disguise in the cramped refugee quarters means a single mistake could blow her cover - at great personal peril. In order to pay for forged documents, Fariba takes an illegal job in a sauerkraut factory, where she is harassed about not wanting to shower with the boys and about being Iranian. The only saving grace is a German woman named Anne, to whom she grows close - dangerously close - as Anne begins to suspect Fariba's true identity.

Striking cinematography and remarkable performances work together to tell a captivating story that reveals the struggles of refugees, the confines of gender and the power of love. This deeply moving, intimate yet universal film will stay with you long after the curtain closes.