Director: Bettina Braun
Script: Bettina Braun
Photography: Bettina Braun
Editors: Gesa Marten, Bettina Braun
Music: Ali El Mkllaki, Amin Aman Saleh
Sound: Bettina Braun
With: Ali El Mkllaki, Kais Setti, Ertan Dinc, Alban Kadiri
Producers: Herbert Schwering, Christine Kiauk
Commissioning Editor ZDF: Christian Cloos
Production: ICON FILM for ZDF/Das kleine Fernsehspiel
Distribution: ZDF
Tel: 0049 6131 702 400
Fax: 0049 6131 706 501
wilhelm.ki@zdf.de
Selected Filmography Herbert Schwering & Christine Kiauk: Lost and Found, 2005; Crash Test Dummies, 2005; Saratan, 2004; Liebe weiss-schwarz, 2003; Die Krokodile der Familie Wandaogo, 2003; Bruno S. – Die Fremde ist der Tod, 2003; Fickende Fische, 2002; Milch und Honig aus Rotfront, 2000.
In German media, teenage and young adult immigrants are overwhelmingly typified as problem cases, threats to public safety or everyone’s laughing stock. Bettina Braun is opting for a realistic and differentiated view instead.
She finds tragical, but also comical and hopeful aspects in the everyday lives of a group of 16- to 20-year-old Cologne Muslims of Albanian, Moroccan, Tunisian or Turkish descent. They are trying to navigate their way between the values cherished by their families and the challenges of the modern job market and the liberal society they live in. The filmmaker’s pregnancy helps her win the trust of the group – and encounter the caring side of these junior machos.