The film "Berlin in Berlin" is a German Turkish cinema directed by Sinan Cetin. It was first released in 1993, and in same year it was entered into the 18th Moscow International Film Festival. The actress in this film, Hulya Avsar won the Best Actress award at the festival.
The summary of this film is that a young German man stalks a Turkish married woman and he accidentally kills her husband while trying to stop their fight. Later he bumps into victim husband's brothers and ran into a random house to hide. However, that place was a house of the husband's family, including the married women he stalked.
Although 'Berlin in Berlin' is not widely known or a blockbuster film, considering that this movie was filmed in 1993, I thought it has impressive story plot and setting. There are not many fancy sequences but it reveals a certain culture, specifically the Turkish, by an ironic setting of the film. It is better to watch this film knowing that Turkey has a tradition of welcoming guest, whoever that person is, even the enemies. In this film, although the young German man was a murder of their brother or son, the family starts to communicate with him and somehow respect him as time goes by. It was interesting to see how the two cultures meet and how the characters start to know and understand each other.
The summary of this film is that a young German man stalks a Turkish married woman and he accidentally kills her husband while trying to stop their fight. Later he bumps into victim husband's brothers and ran into a random house to hide. However, that place was a house of the husband's family, including the married women he stalked.
Although 'Berlin in Berlin' is not widely known or a blockbuster film, considering that this movie was filmed in 1993, I thought it has impressive story plot and setting. There are not many fancy sequences but it reveals a certain culture, specifically the Turkish, by an ironic setting of the film. It is better to watch this film knowing that Turkey has a tradition of welcoming guest, whoever that person is, even the enemies. In this film, although the young German man was a murder of their brother or son, the family starts to communicate with him and somehow respect him as time goes by. It was interesting to see how the two cultures meet and how the characters start to know and understand each other.