Director: Rolf Schübel
Script: Tevfik Baser
Photography: Holly Fink
Music: Detlef Petersen
Production Design: Sabine Rudolph
Principal Cast: Lale Yavas, Erhan Emre, Tim Seyfi, Hilmi Sözer, Katja Studt, Dorka Gryllus, Idil Üner, Neshe Demir
Producer: Kadir Sözen
Commissioning Editor WDR: Wolf-Dietrich Brücker
Commissioning Editor BR: Bettina Ricklefs
Production: Filmfabrik in co-production with WDR, BR supported by Filmstiftung NRW, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern
Distribution Germany: WDR
Tel: 0049 221 220 2871
Fax: 0049 221 220 6890
www.wdr.de
First Broadcast Germany: 12.1.2005, WDR
Publikumspreis der "Marler Gruppe" für Buch, Darstellung und Regie 41. Adolf Grimme Preis 2005
Melike, Mustafa and Kadir, who are friends with each other, enjoy their youth in Anatolia. But life in their small Turkish village changes when Mustafa and Kadir leave their home country for Germany to earn a better living. Melike is left behind to wait for her great love Mustafa to return. Melike’s family urges her to get married. After five hapless years of marriage, she, too, decides to go abroad to earn money, and soon takes a liking to her new life in Cologne. It is there that she meets beloved Mustafa again, and a passionate relationship unfolds. Things escalate when her husband and both children suddenly appear at her door.