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Farewell to False Paradise

Farewell to False Paradise

IMDB:

7.0
Farewell to False Paradise

Released

5/11/1989

Duration

1h 36m

Genre

Drama

Country

Germany

Cast

Zuhal Olcay, Brigitte Janner, Ruth Olafsdottir

Overview

Ironies abound in this extremely sad melodrama about Elif, a Turkish immigrant in Germany who has been sent to prison for murdering her abusive husband. At the time of her imprisonment, she has never ventured outside the Turkish community, and even there has had no friends because of the demands her husband placed on her. She speaks no German. Now, in a place which most people find to be hell on earth, she gains a never-before known taste of freedom among these strangers, who don't even speak her own language. Unfortunately, as a "guest worker," she is horrified to discover that she is soon to be transferred to the horrific prisons of Turkey and will stand trial there for her crime, which will be much less understandingly dealt with in her home country than it would have been in Germany. The false paradise she must say goodbye to is her German prison.

Cast

Zuhal Olcay

Elif

Zuhal Olcay

Brigitte Janner

Marianne

Brigitte Janner

Ruth Olafsdottir

Gabriella

Ruth Olafsdottir

Barbara Morawiecz

Nora

Barbara Morawiecz

Brigitte Böttrich

Christine

Brigitte Böttrich

Tatjana Clasing

Barbara

Tatjana Clasing

Erla Prollius

Wärterin

Erla Prollius

Eva-Maria Kurz

Unknown Role

Eva-Maria Kurz

Petra Barthel

Unknown Role

Petra Barthel

Çelik Bilge

Unknown Role

Çelik Bilge

Birgül Topçugürler

Unknown Role

Birgül Topçugürler

Annemarie Assmann

Unknown Role

Annemarie Assmann

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