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Farewell to False Paradise(1989)
Status: Released
Date: 1989-05-11
70%
3 Votes
Time: 1h 36m
Overview:
Ironies abound in this extremely sad melodrama about Elif, a Turkish immigrant in Germany who has been sent to prison for murdering her abusive husband. At the time of her imprisonment, she has never ventured outside the Turkish community, and even there has had no friends because of the demands her husband placed on her. She speaks no German. Now, in a place which most people find to be hell on earth, she gains a never-before known taste of freedom among these strangers, who don't even speak her own language. Unfortunately, as a "guest worker," she is horrified to discover that she is soon to be transferred to the horrific prisons of Turkey and will stand trial there for her crime, which will be much less understandingly dealt with in her home country than it would have been in Germany. The false paradise she must say goodbye to is her German prison.
Languages: German, Turkish.
Countries:
Germany
ProductionCompanies: 
Ottokar Runze Filmproduktion
Movie: Farewell to False Paradise
Top 10 Billed Cast
Zuhal Olcay
Elif
Brigitte Janner
Marianne
Barbara Morawiecz
Nora
Brigitte Böttrich
Christine
Tatjana Clasing
Barbara
Eva-Maria Kurz
Çelik Bilge
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Overview
Ironies abound in this extremely sad melodrama about Elif, a Turkish immigrant in Germany who has been sent to prison for murdering her abusive husband. At the time of her imprisonment, she has never ventured outside the Turkish community, and even there has had no friends because of the demands her husband placed on her. She speaks no German. Now, in a place which most people find to be hell on earth, she gains a never-before known taste of freedom among these strangers, who don't even speak her own language. Unfortunately, as a "guest worker," she is horrified to discover that she is soon to be transferred to the horrific prisons of Turkey and will stand trial there for her crime, which will be much less understandingly dealt with in her home country than it would have been in Germany. The false paradise she must say goodbye to is her German prison.
Release Date
1989-05-11
Average
7
Rating:
3.5 startsTagline
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Languages:
DeutschTürkçe
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