Name: Macondo
Director: Sudabeh Mortezai
Genre: Drama
Released: 2014-11-14
Duration: 1 h 38 min
Rating: 6.6
Cast: Ramasan Minkailov, Aslan Elbiev, Kheda Gazieva, Rosa Minkailova

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Credited cast:
	Ramasan Minkailov	...	Ramasan
	Aslan Elbiev	...	Isa
	Kheda Gazieva	...	Aminat
	Rosa Minkailova	...	Rosa
	Iman Nasuhanowa	...	Iman
	Askhab Umaev	...	Askhab
	Hamsat Nasuhanow	...	Deni
	Champascha Sadulajev	...	Champascha
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
	Denise Teipel	...	Police Officer

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Ramasan has a lot of responsibility for an 11-year-old. In traditional Chechen society, he is now considered the man of the house in charge of his mother and two younger sisters. His world is now centered in Macondo, a tough ethnic neighborhood in the industrial suburbs of Vienna. Ramasan speaks German much better than his mother Aminat, and he often translates for her regarding school and government welfare matters. Aminat is still coping with having lost her husband, fleeing Chechnya and trying to make ends meet as a single mother and foreigner in a new society. Ramasan's confined world is disrupted when Isa, his father's war buddy, moves into the low-income housing complex. Isa pays his respects to Aminat and her children, giving them the watch and a family photo his dead friend always carried with him. This encounter awakens Ramasan's interest in his father. He seeks Isa's company, but the outsider remains secretive about the past. Isa gradually opens up and a bond evolves between... Written by FreibeuterFilm

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