Kebab Connection
- Denis Moschitto as İbo
- Hoku Ho as Titzi
- Güven Kıraç as Mehmet
- Hasan Ali Mete as Uncle Ahmet
- Adnan Maral as Kirianis
- Adam Bousdoukos as Valid
- Cem Akın as Altan
- Nursel Köse as Hatice
- Tatjana Velimirov as Stella
- Fahri Ogun Yardım as Lefty
- Romina Fütterer as Ayla
- Sibel Kekilli as The Italian
- Kida Ramadan as Özgür
- Pheline Roggan as punk
- Marion Martienzen as Titzis mother Marion
The film Kebab Connection is an intercultural German comedy from 2005. Starring Denis Moschitto and Hoku Ho play, directed by Anno Saul.
Formation
Fatih Akın had for some time the idea of the first German kung -fu movie. From this the the understatement alienated story developed by an amateur filmmaker from the Hamburg Schanze quarter, which rotates Werbefilmchen for the local movie theater, but looks the same as the future Bruce Lee of German cinema.
Action
The 21 -year-old Bruce Lee and Jet Li enthusiastic İbrahim, short İbo, from the Hamburg Schanze district 's goal is to take as the maker of the first German kung -fu movie in the history of film. İbo comes closer to his goal of a commercial, he turns to the kebab shop of his uncle Ahmet. But this commercial for two handful of kebab, which resembles a highly professional kung fu movie, Uncle Ahmet like initially not absolute. On the big screen, however, reacted enthusiastically and flows on a search for the cinema screenings in Ahmet's kebab shop King of Kebab. Now, suddenly, Ahmet has a soft spot for the commercials of his nephew and İbo sees himself in thought even as a future Oscar winner.
Ibos girlfriend Titzi meanwhile takes part in an entrance exam for drama school. The joy to Ibos sudden stardom she opposes an unwanted pregnancy. As the future father needs some time to understand his paternity and therefore initially not responded adequately to the seriousness of the matter, there is a break between Titzi and Ibo.
Not only that İbo must move out of their apartment, his father rejects him. Because father Mehmet can be explained by a German than his son's girlfriend just agree, but do not see it as a mother of his grandchildren. His grandson would say Papi instead Baba İbo and speak no word Turkish. The remaining, more sober part of the family can do against Mehmet following raging little.
With his childhood friends, the Greeks and the Albanians Valid Lefty, meanwhile İbo sets various unsuccessful plans in motion to at least win his Titzi again for themselves. The way to the inevitable happy ending is hard and stony.
Comments
The film was shot on location in Hamburg Schanze district, one of the multicultural centers of Hamburg.
The Turkish actor Güven Kıraç, who plays the head of the family, Mehmet, was at the time of filming a word of German and therefore has learned its entire text to the letter by heart.
The well-known actress Sibel Kekilli has a small guest role in this film. Other minor characters play, for example, Adnan Maral or success as a cabaret artist Nursel Köse.
Criticism
The critics took the film a definite plus in: For Marguerite Seidel " offset Anno Saul sovereign and point the rich genre of cross-cultural comedy loosely based on foreign models [ ... ] in the Germany of today." For Stefan Lange of the Star "wins ( the story ) through the furious narrative pace of the film and the diversity of the characters ." Philipp Bühler of the Berliner Zeitung turns out: "If this is a parallel society at work, then it is a gang lively filmmakers who unrealistically deal with the reality. Namely productive and humor " Taz called Kebab Connection as "the best Fatih Akın comedy [ ... ], the Fatih Akın has not turned itself " and praises to the minor characters outstanding actor. In contrast, the filmdienst particularly praised the performance of the main character, but also that the dialogues "surprisingly funny and grotesque" are.
Others
Years before the film turned Sinan Akkus on motives of the screenplay of Kebab Connection already the award-winning short film Lassie ( 2002).
The website of the film was nominated in 2005 for the Grimme Online Award.