Yasemin

• Ayse Romey: Yasemin
• Sener Şen: Father Yusuf
• Ilhan Emirli: Dursun
• Emine Sevgi Özdamar: Mother Dilber
• Toto Karaca: Aunt Zeynep
• Sebnem Seldün: Nesrin
• Nursel Köse: Emine
• Katharina Lehmann: Susanne
• Nedim Hazar: Hassan
• Corinna Harfouch: Woman Rathjensdorf

Yasemin is an award-winning German film from 1988 by Hark Bohm with Ayse Romey and Uwe Bohm in the lead roles. He is regarded as a modern classic of children's and youth films.

Formation

The writing and directing the film was preceded by extensive research of the filmmaker Bohm. He spoke with Turkish families in Germany, took part in their festivals and studied in detail the conflict of these " Gratwanderer between two cultures" ( Liidecke ) in order to draw the Turks as differentiated as possible in the film can.

Content

The film makes it clear that where such diverse cultures as the German and the Turkish collide, even perfect language skills may be useless as long as the effort to promote mutual intercultural understanding fails. It tells the love story between a 17-year Yasemin, daughter of Turkish immigrants in Germany, and Jan, a loose one life caring 20 - year-old student from Hamburg - Altona. In the life of a high school student identify their national origin had never played a special role. By naive, but soon seriously expectant relationship between the hard-working student and the student they must, as this is not lost on her family, take their Turkish origin for the first time for them unfavorably note. Especially Yasemin's father, a hard-working greengrocer, the relations of lovers can not agree with his his time miteingewanderten norms: Soon, he plans to create its born and raised in Germany subsidiary in Turkey in order to prevent the relationship with the German final. Yasemin and Jan react at the last moment to escape. The emotionally very impressive final scene of the film leaves their fate.

Criticism

• Filmdienst: The Movie affected fundamental problems of understanding between Turkish children who have grown up in Germany, and her parents. It is told in the style of an exciting, occasionally touching cinema history and encourages discussion on.
• Epd Film 5/1988: ... a fresh and relish told story in which the aliens times do not have to act out their role as a " fringe group ".

Teaching models to movie

The film was widely used from the 90s in the German education, to stimulate discussion between students from 12 years in relation to the Culture Clash in particular between German and Turkish culture. Known teaching models are:

• Ulrich Ehlers: Yasemin. A film for twelve year olds. In: Teen cinema. Film work between childhood and adolescence. Frankfurt am Main, Federal Association of Youth and film [Ed ], 1993, pp. 143-148
• Classics of children's and youth film: teaching model to Yasemin, practice German 175, 2002

Prizes and awards

Yasemin has received several awards and nominations.

• Starring newcomer award Ayse Romey

• Nomination Golden Bear Hark Bohm

• Film Award for film
• Ayse Romey ( Best Young Actress )