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Farewell to False Paradise

05/11/1989

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1hr 36min

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Drama

STORY

Ironies abound in this extremely sad melodrama about Elif, a Turkish immigrant in Germany who has been sent to prison for murdering her abusive husband. At the time of her imprisonment, she has never ventured outside the Turkish community, and even there has had no friends because of the demands her husband placed on her. She speaks no German. Now, in a place which most people find to be hell on earth, she gains a never-before known taste of freedom among these strangers, who don't even speak her own language. Unfortunately, as a "guest worker," she is horrified to discover that she is soon to be transferred to the horrific prisons of Turkey and will stand trial there for her crime, which will be much less understandingly dealt with in her home country than it would have been in Germany. The false paradise she must say goodbye to is her German prison.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Zuhal Olcay
  • Brigitte Janner
  • Ruth Olafsdottir
  • Barbara Morawiecz
  • Brigitte Böttrich

    Directors

  • Sibylle Schönemann
  • Tevfik Başer
  • Ottokar Runze

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • ZDF
  • Studio Hamburg Filmproduktion
  • Ottokar Runze Filmproduktion

    Production Countries

  • Germany

LANGUAGES

  • German
  • Turkish

Cast

Zuhal Olcay

Elif

Brigitte Janner

Marianne

Ruth Olafsdottir

Gabriella

Barbara Morawiecz

Nora

Brigitte Böttrich

Christine

Tatjana Clasing

Barbara

Erla Prollius

Wärterin

Eva-Maria Kurz

Petra Barthel

Çelik Bilge

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