Directed by:
Yasemin ŞamdereliCinematography:
Ngo The ChauComposer:
Gerd BaumannCast:
Vedat Erincin, Fahri Yardim, Lilay Huser, Demet Gül, Petra Schmidt-Schaller, Aykut Kayacik, Axel Milberg, Antoine Monot Jr., Aglaia Szyszkowitz (more)Plots(1)
A breezy, colorfully styled comedy, Almanya centers on multiple generations of a German-Turkish clan and marks the feature debut of German helmer Yasemin Samdereli, who, along with younger sister/co-scribe Nesrin, wrote episodes of the popular Teuton soap “Turkish for Beginners”. Deriving its broad humor from cultural misunderstandings and the question of what constitutes national identity, the narrative is neatly structured into two interwoven time frames. The first, set in the present, introduces the Yilmazes in their German home, as patriarch Huseyin insists that his family accompany him for a holiday in Turkey. The second strand follows young Huseyin in distant Anatolia, his arrival in 1964 Germany as the 1,000,001st Gastarbeiter, and his family’s gradual acclimatization – if not assimilation. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Vedat Erincin
Turkey
Best movies:
Almanya: Welcome to Germany (2011)
A Most Wanted Man (2014)
Rock My Heart (2017)
Fahri Yardim
West Germany
Best movies:
Head Full of Honey (2014)
Mogadishu Welcome (2008) (TV movie)
Almanya: Welcome to Germany (2011)
Lilay Huser
Best movies:
Almanya: Welcome to Germany (2011)
Chiko (2008)
What a Man (2011)
Demet Gül
Germany
Best movies:
Almanya: Welcome to Germany (2011)
Aşk Laftan Anlamaz (2016) (series)
Die Opfer - Vergesst mich nicht (2016) (TV movie)
Petra Schmidt-Schaller
East Germany
Best movies:
The Final Journey (2017)
My Life in Orange (2011)
Almanya: Welcome to Germany (2011)
Aykut Kayacik
Turkey
Best movies:
Lola and Billy the Kid (1999)
Offroad (2012)
Almanya: Welcome to Germany (2011)
Axel Milberg
West Germany
Best movies:
Hannah Arendt (2012)
Goethe! (2010)
Offroad (2012)
Antoine Monot Jr.
West Germany
Best movies:
Who Am I - No System Is Safe (2014)
The Experiment (2001)
Gigantics (1999)
Aglaia Szyszkowitz
Austria
Best movies:
Saint Augustin (2010) (TV movie)
Almanya: Welcome to Germany (2011)
Rommel (2012) (TV movie)
Katharina Thalbach
East Germany
Best movies:
Head Full of Honey (2014)
The Tin Drum (1979)
Sophie's Choice (1982)
Walter Sittler
USA
Best movies:
The Gathering Storm (2002) (TV movie)
Almanya: Welcome to Germany (2011)
Windstorm 2 (2015)
Aylin Tezel
West Germany
Best movies:
Almanya: Welcome to Germany (2011)
The Master Butcher (2019) (TV movie)
Weekend Rebels (2023)
Denis Moschitto
West Germany
Best movies:
Gloomy Sunday (1999)
Almanya: Welcome to Germany (2011)
In the Fade (2017)
Saskia Vester
West Germany
Best movies:
Winter Sleepers (1997)
Almanya: Welcome to Germany (2011)
Guys and Balls (2004)
Jule Ronstedt
West Germany
Best movies:
Almanya: Welcome to Germany (2011)
Nanga Parbat - L'ascension extrême (2010)
Grave Decisions (2006)
Tim Seyfi
Turkey
Best movies:
Head-On (2004)
Desert Flower (2009)
Das jüngste Gericht (2008) (TV movie)
Tristan Seith
West Germany
Best movies:
Time You Change (2010)
Almanya: Welcome to Germany (2011)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Trystan Pütter
West Germany
Best movies:
Generation War (2013) (series)
Berlin 56 (2016) (series)
Ku'damm 59 (2018) (series)
Sesede Terziyan
West Germany
Best movies:
25 km/h (2018)
Almanya: Welcome to Germany (2011)
The Cut (2014)
Angela Merkel (a.f.)
West Germany
Best movies:
Almanya: Welcome to Germany (2011) - a.f.
Die Ermittler: Nur für den Dienstgebrauch (2016) (TV movie)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) - a.f.