My Mother

2002 1h 26m DE

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★5.5TMDB · 2

Drama

Synopsis

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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

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Nursel Köse
Anam
Tayfun Bademsoy
Mehmet
Saskia Vester
Rita
Leonard Lansink
Bernd
Birol Ünel
Hasan
Kailas Mahadevan
Najely Chumana
Jülide Girisken

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Buket Alakuş
Writers: Buket Alakuş
Languages: German
Countries: Germany

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RUNTIME

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86 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.

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2 / 8

ERA

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Released 24 years ago.

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3 / 8

RUNTIME

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Buket Alakuş, shot by Marcus Lambrecht. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Ann-Sophie Schweizer shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Nursel Köse and Tayfun Bademsoy and Saskia Vester carry the top of the cast.

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7 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0295165 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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8 / 8

WILD

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Only 2 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Buket Alakuş directs. Marcus Lambrecht behind the camera. Ann-Sophie Schweizer cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Germany. Dialogue in German.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

186 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
2Released 24 years ago.
3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
4Directed by Buket Alakuş, shot by Marcus Lambrecht. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Editor Ann-Sophie Schweizer shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Nursel Köse and Tayfun Bademsoy and Saskia Vester carry the top of the cast.
7IMDB entry: tt0295165 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
8Only 2 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.