Lola and Billy the Kid

• Gandi Mukli: Lola
• Baki Davrak Murat
• Erdal Yildiz: Bilidikid
• Inge Keller: Ute
• Michael Gerber: Friedrich
• Murat Yılmaz: Iskender
• Hasan Ali Mete: Osman
• Hakan Tandoğan: Fatma Souad
• Cihangir Gümüştürkmen: Lale Turkish Delight
• Celal Perk: Sehrazat
• Mesut Ozdemir: Kalipso
• Ulrich Simontowitz: Man in the Tiergarten
• Willi Herren: Rudy

Lola and Bilidikid is a German film from 1999, created under the direction of Kutluğ Ataman. He plays within a homosexual migrants scene in Berlin.

Content

Murat is a 17 -year-old Berliner Turk and homosexual. His nights he spends in the Kreuzberg transvestites and gay scene. The film depicts the coming-out of young people and thereby also specific problems within a migrant homosexual milieu and their families.

Background

Ataman originally wanted to shoot his film in Istanbul, but had trouble getting to donors for his project.

In particular, among homosexuals, the film is considered a cult strips.

Reviews

" Impressively, the film shows the gay Turkish subculture in Berlin. "

" A partially larmoyanter film that wants to put the homosexual subculture of Berlin a monument, but it reinforces prejudices rather than reducing them. In addition, it lacks a coherent dramatic structure, to convincing actors and artistic maturity. "

"The film is from today's perspective, perhaps too cluttered with his message. But he ran in the Berlinale 's Panorama program and got good reviews, which is certainly also related to the hung, that it was curious that time on the cultural coming-out of the Turkish immigrant children, who told in films and texts from a world of which the feuilleton little knew. "