Siblings - Kardeşler

The everyday life of the German-Turkish siblings Erol, Ahmed and Leyla in Berlin-Kreuzberg. The first part of Thomas Arslan's "Berlin Trilogy" with Berlin hip-hop legend Kool Savage. SIBLINGS - KARDEŞLER is the first part of Thomas Arslan's "Berlin Trilogy", which includes the films DEALER (1998) and DER SCHÖNE TAG (2001). "SIBLINGS is the first film to film Turkish youth from their own perspective. Not a treatise on, but a question of everyday scenes, conversations, quarrels, and reconciliations. Filmed so directly, as if the viewer were standing in the same courtyard entrance." (Tip Berlin)

Keywords

  • Berliner Schule
  • Filmgalerie 451
  • Location: Berlin
  • Storyline: Coming of Age
  • Storyline: Daughters
  • Storyline: Sons
  • Thomas Arslan
  • migration
  • social drama
  • urban living

Actors

  • Tamer Yiğit
  • Savas Yurderi
  • Serpil Turhan
  • Mariam El Awad

Director

  • Thomas Arslan

Drama


1h 22min


16 FSK

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Germany
1997
The first part of Thomas Arslan's "Berlin Trilogy", which shows young people with a Turkish migration history from their own perspective.

The first part of Thomas Arslan's "Berlin Trilogy", which shows young people with a Turkish migration history from their own perspective.


The everyday life of the German-Turkish siblings Erol, Ahmed and Leyla in Berlin-Kreuzberg. The first part of Thomas Arslan's "Berlin Trilogy" with Berlin hip-hop legend Kool Savage.


SIBLINGS - KARDEŞLER is the first part of Thomas Arslan's "Berlin Trilogy", which includes the films DEALER (1998) and DER SCHÖNE TAG (2001).


"SIBLINGS is the first film to film Turkish youth from their own perspective. Not a treatise on, but a question of everyday scenes, conversations, quarrels, and reconciliations. Filmed so directly, as if the viewer were standing in the same courtyard entrance." (Tip Berlin)

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