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Özgür Yildirim (writer)
Release Date:
17 April 2008 (Germany)
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Plot:
Loyalty between two friends is stretched to its limit by one's deception. | full synopsis
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2 wins
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Cannes 2009 Producer's Patch: The Match Factory
(From ioncinema. 14 May 2009)
2009 Lola Winners
(From Alternative Film Guide. 24 April 2009, 9:54 PM, PDT)
(From ioncinema. 14 May 2009)
2009 Lola Winners
(From Alternative Film Guide. 24 April 2009, 9:54 PM, PDT)
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Watchable But Predictable
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Denis Moschitto | ... | Chiko |
| Moritz Bleibtreu | ... | Brownie |
| Volkan Özcan | ... | Tibet |
| Fahri Ogün Yardim | ... | Curly |
| Reyhan Sahin | ... | Meryem |
| Lilay Huser | ... | Tibets Mutter |
 | Philipp Baltus | ... | Scholle |
| Henny Reents | ... | Reji |
| Hans Löw | ... | Sascha |
| Simon Goerts | ... | Jimmi |
| Murat Karaman | ... | Hakan |
| Enver Akin | ... | Imam (as Enver Akin) |
| Lukas Gregorowicz | ... | Tonton (as Lucas Gregorowicz) |
| Jelica Batarilo | ... | Schwester Jessica |
| Peter Jordan | ... | Arzt |
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Argentina:92 min | Germany:92 min
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The performances are very good, as is each scene taken by itself. The story is completely predictable, including the end, which I also found frankly unbelievable. The whole hodge-podge of conflicted feelings about ethic identity reminded me of "Once Were Warriors," which was about a violent Maori community in New Zealand. At least that movie acknowledged that the male craziness had a partial source in poverty and racism (without excusing it). Chiko doesn't admit much of anything about Germany - the early parts of the film are a kind of "rebels without a cause." At least for me, steeped in the race relations of English-speaking countries plus France, this film self-pathologized Turkish-German males and sensationalized their emotions in a way I didn't find very insightful. But on the level of production and acting, it was at least an 8.