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Released
2002 · FILM

My Mother

Directed by
Buket Alakus
Written by
Buket Alakus
Runtime
86 min
Language
DE
Drama
Streaming on
  • The Criterion Channel

Synopsis

Anam, age 40, is a traditional Turkish wife and mother who lives with her family in a German city. She works as a cleaner and has made two friends: man-crazy German Rita and superstitious African Didi. When she finds out that her 20-year-old son Deniz has drifted into the drug scene and her husband Mehmet is having an affair with a colleague, her whole world collapses around her. Although desperate she is determined to fight and goes looking for Deniz. Instead she finds his girlfriend Mandy, who is also a drug addict. She decides to take care of the girl who is a stranger to her and finds herself confronted with an entirely unknown world. When she finally manages to track Deniz down to the cold-blooded dealer Hassain, he rejects her. Anam is forced to realize that painful as it is she can only help Deniz if he is prepared to accept her help

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Principal cast & crew: 18

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Edited by Ann Sophie SchweizerShot by Marcus LambrechtScored by Mehmet ErginDesigned by Tamo Kunz

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