Kebab Connection
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Kebab Connection | |
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Directed by | Anno Saul |
Produced by | Stefan Schubert |
Written by | Ralph Schwingel Fatih Akın |
Starring | Emanuel Bettencourt Numan Acar |
Distributed by | Universum Film |
Release date(s) | 21 April 2005 (Germany) |
Running time | 96 min. |
Language | German |
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Kebab Connection is a 2005 German-Turkish comedy film, with some slapstick, set in Hamburg.
[edit] Plot
Ibo (Denis Moschitto) is a young Turkish-German man who is an aspiring filmmaker. A clash of cultures and pre-parental anxiety ensues after Ibo's German girlfriend, Titzi (Nora Tschirner), announces that she's pregnant. Ibo's father (Güven Kiraç) is upset at his son for wanting to start a family with a non-Muslim German woman while Titzi is upset at Ibo over his hesitance in taking on fatherly responsibilities.
Other themes are the competition of a Turkish kebab restaurant and a Greek taverna, a gang trying to extort the owner of the kebab restaurant, Ibo's quest to make the first German Kung-Fu movie and the pursuit of both Titzi and her roommate of spots at a prestigious drama academy.