Salami Aleikum

  • Navid Akhavan: Mohsen Taheri
  • Anna Boeger: Ana Bergheim
  • Michael Niavarani: Father Abdul Taheri
  • Wolfgang Stumph: Father Hans Bergheim
  • Eva -Maria Radoy: Mother Rita Bergheim
  • Proschat Madani: Mother Taheri
  • Stephan Grossmann: Uwe
  • Caroline Schreiber: Gisela
  • Robert Hofmann: Justin

Salami ALEIKUM is a German film of the German -Iranian Ali Samadi Ahadi film director. In Germany the film opened on 23 July 2009, the official theatrical release in Austria was 1 January 2010. Multicultural comedy tells the story of a Persian Fleischer family from Cologne, who goes to East Germany, where it undergoes in a sleepy provincial village culture shock and provoke.

Action

The kind-hearted Mohsen Taheri spends his time favorite with ropes and can see no blood. Therefore, the butcher his father's work disgusts him, who is from Iran and for many years in Cologne runs a butcher shop. When he has to take the meat because of an official prohibition, he gets slaughtered ready to import, which can then be sold at his butcher the offer of Poland, meaty sheep from Poland. Mohsen is the windy dealer all his savings and goes with the old van his father to Poland, but remains lie with the vehicle in a village in eastern Germany and gets help from the local car mechanic, in which he also immediately fell. The strong and significantly greater than Mohsen grown mechanic Ana was once a successful shot putter in the GDR. Her career ended abruptly after the turn when her ( arranged ) doping violations became public. Your great love, her coach, she left (towards West Germany ), which is why Ana is now all men over extremely suspicious, and for their subjectively unfavorable appearance. So it has Mohsen hard to gain their trust, and the villagers meet him suddenly with suspicion and prejudice, to a misunderstanding especially from Anas father, the village landlord, who pays hopeful suspicion that the young wise Iranians had a strong investor, who wants to fill them with life and jobs the dilapidated textile mill in the village again. Mohsen does not dispel the false suspicion to Anas love -willed being. In the village inn Persian food is served from now on.

When the car is repaired, Ana travels with Mohsen to Poland. There turns out that he is the victim of an fraud - there are only a few meager sheep, which he gets. Among them is a pregnant ewe, throws during due to lack of import documents, illegal transition across the border, a cub (which reveals itself in the end than the (childish) narrator, who accompanied the entire movie from the off ).

Shortly thereafter burst Mohsen's parents in the village idyll that have traveled out of concern for the welfare of her son to there. Mohsen is doing everything so that his unsuspecting father does not blabbed, who has befriended the meantime on a common penchant for army uniforms and brandy with Anas father. As Mohsen Ana makes a marriage proposal, clarifies the young man in front of everyone in the inn the whole misunderstanding and admits to have seen through it for some time. Then Ana gives him an uppercut and turns away in disappointment.

It takes some time until all the protagonists find each other again. So also Ana, who seeks Mohsen in Poland, where this is also disappointed by Anas stubbornness, has withdrawn. From the knowledge that the Iranian food is a blockbuster sale in the village inn, is a part of the old factory a lucrative Iranian- German cultural center, which receives great popularity.

The film is accompanied by short inserts in the style typical of Iranian video clips, which - for the German cinema audiences wanted comic acting - kitsch is an element of comedy. Contributors are the protagonists of the film.

Reception

  • "Laughing attack against the fear of strangers" THE STANDARD
  • "Conclusion: Imaginatively - witty Culture Clash " COURIER
  • " Never the clash of cultures was comical. " CINEMA
  • "The film offers enjoyable meaningless Kurzweil for all who have known how to enjoy where similar films like Kebab Connection and Schnitzel Paradise in the recent past. However getting used to are the numerous cinematic special deposits, which can in some places rise to the suspicion that using this originality the weaknesses of the action to be dubbed. " ( Unintelligible GESPRRÄCH ) Film Blog
  • " ... So magical and creative like, Amélie ' of Montmartre. " FOCUS FILM
  • " Wonderfully incorrect. Stereotypes of both sides come here in the big blind, but the baseball bat is not necessary. " TAZ
  • "... A detailed, great photographed fairytale world in which the characters act in an intelligent and extremely loving way oversubscribed. " FRANKFURT NEW PRESS
  • " A multicultural fairy tales from the Wild East" Falter
  • " Salami ALEIKUM comes as a satirical Excessively while quite enjoyable playing with clichés and prejudices. A in its playfulness and lightness undidaktischen quite singular work in the current German cinema. " BERLINONLINE.DE

Awards

Salami ALEIKUM won the second prize of the Bernhard Wicki Film Prize and the NDR Film Prize for the offspring at the International Filmfest Emden - Norderney 2009. The film was nominated for the MFG -Star Baden-Baden, 2009.

The price of the German Film Critics Award in 2009, the film received in the category of Best Debut Film at the Berlinale. 2010 Ali N. Askin film composer has been nominated for the German Film Prize. 9 May 2012 Salami ALEIKUM received the CIVIS Media Prize for Integration.

2009 in film Screenplay Film score Navíd Akhavan Doping in East Germany Preis der deutschen Filmkritik Berlin International Film Festival
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