Journey of Hope

Reise der Hoffnung

Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom

1990

110 Min

Color

Turkish, Swiss German

Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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PROD Peter-Christian Fueter, Alfi Sinniger

SCR Xavier Koller, Feride Çiçekoglu

CAST Necmettin Çobanoğlu, Nur Sürer, Emin Sivas, Erdinc Akbas, Yaman Okay, Yasar Güner, Hseyin Mete, Yaman Tarcan, Selahattin Firat, Meryem Çaki, Mayor Abbas Manis, Yasar Kutbay, Kutay Köktürk, Mehmet Sugan, Ali Demirbas

ED Daniel Gibel, Galip Iyitanir

In a village in eastern Turkey, tales of the economic success of Turks in Switzerland inspire Haydar to convince his wife Meryem that they must go. He sells their livestock and small plot of land in exchange for passage for two. He wants to leave their seven children in the care of the eldest and his parents; his father advises him to take one son to be educated in Europe, as economic insurance. The three set off for Istanbul, Milan, and Switzerland, stowing away on a ship. At Lake Como, they pay the rest of their money to unprincipled men who abandon them at an Alpine pass before a blizzard. Father and son are separated from Meryem. Will anyone reach the land of promise? —Wikipedia

Director

Xavier Koller

Xavier Koller (born 1944, Schwyz, Switzerland) is a Swiss film director and screenwriter. His film Journey of Hope won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1990.

After graduating from High School, Koller first went through a four-year apprenticeship as a precision toolmaker and then, after three years of training at the Academy of Drama in Zurich, Switzerland, graduated as an actor/director.

The next several years he spent acting and directing at German and Swiss theatres. He did a number of TV-plays as an actor, directed commercials, acted in movies, and then started to write and direct feature films. —Wikipedia