Desperate to help her son, Rabiye Kurnaz, a housewife and loving mother from Bremen, goes to the police, notifies authorities and almost despairs at their impotence and in the end, against all the odds, something truly remarkable happens.
Acting
Meltem Kaptan's volcanic, tender, absolutely unhinged performance.
Direction
Dresen's signature humane realism meets almost satirical absurdity.
Writing
Dialogue that captures bureaucratic cruelty through dark, desperate humor.
Director
Andreas Dresen
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