Brothers and Sisters

Geschwister – Kardeşler

Germany

1997

82 Min

Color

Turkish, German

Currently 3.2/5 Stars.
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PROD Kaete Caspar, Alberto Kitzler

CAST Fazli Yurderi, Hildegard Kuhlenberg, Savas Yurderi, Mariam El Awad, Serpil Turhan, Tamer Yigit, Bülent Akil, Bilge Bingul, Erhan Emre, Raymond Tarabay

ED Thomas Arslan, Bettina Blickwede, Heidi Reuscher

Two brothers and their sister live in Germany with their German mother and Turkish father. One brother, Erol, prefers to keep Turkish citizenship, and the story takes place during the period of time covering Erol’s drafting into the Turkish army. —BFI

Director

Thomas Arslan

Thomas Arslan was born in Braunschweig on July 16, 1962. From 1963 to 1967 he lived in Essen, and from 1967 to 1971 in Ankara, Turkey, where he attended primary school. In 1971 he returned to Essen, completing high school there in 1982. He completed his community service in Hamburg in 1984, spending 1985/86 in Munich where he studied German language and literature and history for two terms. He studied at the film school dffb in Berlin from 1986-92, and has been a screenwriter and filmmaker ever since. He took part in the Panorama section of the Berlinale in 1994 with Mach die Musik leiser; his documentary Aus der Ferne was shown in the Forum in 2006. Since 2007, he has been a professor of narrative film at the Berlin University of Arts. —filmportal.de