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    Farewell to False Paradise

    Farewell to False Paradise

    1989

    1:36:50

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    7.0/10 (3)

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    Farewell to False Paradise

    Genre

    Drama

    Plot

    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.

    Director

    Tevfik Başer

    Writers

    Cornelius Bischoff, Sibylle Schönemann, Tevfik Başer, Saliha Scheinhardt,

    Stars

    Zuhal Olcay, Brigitte Janner, Ruth Olafsdottir, Barbara Morawiecz, Brigitte Böttrich,