Goethe-Kino - Online
We are pleased to offer this current UK release to our audience at a special discount price. Please note that this special offer is only valid from Wednesday 29 September to Wednesday 6 October, 6pm.
It is at a fun fair that Asli sees Saeed for the first time. Just before the start of a daring ride, he gets out of the gondola, ridiculed by his friends for being scared. Asli and Saeed will meet again, fall in love and get married. We will follow all of this through Asli's eyes.
The love between the quiet Turkish-German medical student and the lively dentistry student from a wealthy Beirut family is strong, but also complicated. Since her mother holds deep prejudices against Arabs, Asli keeps her relationship with Saeed a secret, putting their relationship at risk. Nevertheless, they stay together and at the wedding she promises him to keep all his secrets. Although Asli already suspects at this point that this is not simply a marriage formula, she makes the promise. Over the years Saeed keeps many secrets often leaving Asli distraught or angry. Yet her love and loyalty keep her from facing the truth about her husband until the unimaginable happens.
In five chapters, Anne Zohra Berrached, whose breakthrough film was the 2016 abortion drama
24 Weeks, tells of a love that overcomes personal and cultural differences, but also nourishes the deep ideological convictions to which it ultimately falls victim. Though inspired by real people and events and based on detailed research, the film is not about reconstructing a historical event but about exploring it through the prism of interpersonal relationships and through two powerful lead performances.
Germany / France 2021. Colour, 118 mins. German, English, Arabic, Turkish with English subtitles. Directed by Anne Zohra Berrached. With Canan Kir, Roger Azar, Özay Fecht, Jana Julia Roth, Ceci Chuh, Nicolas Chaoui.
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You can pre-order the ticket for the discounted price. You will then receive a viewing link that leads to the viewing platform from 6pm on Wednesday 29 September. Once you have started the film you can watch it within 48 hours.
If you have watched one or our online films before, please note that the process is a bit different this time as we are cooperating with the UK distributor Modern Films, who has kindly made this special one-week offer possible.
Anne Zohra Berrached was born in Erfurt in the former GDR in 1982. After graduating in social education, she worked as a drama teacher in London. She then took up a degree at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg where she directed the short documentary Saint & Whore, which was selected by over 80 international film festivals. Her debut feature film,
Two Mothers, screened in the 2013 Berlinale Section Perspektive Deutsches Kino winning the Dialogue en perspective award. Her second feature,
24 Weeks, premiered in the Berlinale Competition in 2016 and received the German Film Award in Silver. (Source: Berlinale)
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