My Mother

Overview

Anam, age 40, is a traditional Turkish wife and mother who lives with her family in a German city. She works as a cleaner and has made two friends: man-crazy German Rita and superstitious African Didi. When she finds out that her 20-year-old son Deniz has drifted into the drug scene and her husband Mehmet is having an affair with a colleague, her whole world collapses around her. Although desperate she is determined to fight and goes looking for Deniz. Instead she finds his girlfriend Mandy, who is also a drug addict. She decides to take care of the girl who is a stranger to her and finds herself confronted with an entirely unknown world. When she finally manages to track Deniz down to the cold-blooded dealer Hassain, he rejects her. Anam is forced to realize that painful as it is she can only help Deniz if he is prepared to accept her help

Details

Status

Released

Release date

April 25, 2002

Original language

German

Countries

Germany

Cast

Tayfun Bademsoy,Birol Ünel,Kailas Mahadevan,Nursel Köse,Jülide Girisken,Saskia Vester,Patrycia Ziolkowska,Leonard Lansink,Audrey Motaung,Navid Navidand 1 more

Director

Buket Alakuş

Writer

Buket Alakuş

Cinematography

Marcus Lambrecht

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0295165