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When We Leave

Die Fremde

Germany

2010

119 Min
Color
2.35:1
Turkish, German
  • Currently 3.2/5 Stars.
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DIR Feo Aladag

PROD Feo Aladag, Züli Aladag, Julia Radke

SCR Feo Aladag

DP Judith Kaufmann

CAST Sibel Kekilli, Nizam Schiller, Derya Alabora, Settar Tanrıöğen, Serhad Can

ED Andrea Mertens

PROD DES Silke Buhr

MUSIC Stéphane Moucha, Max Richter

Tribeca (Narrative Features Competition), Berlinale (Panorama), São Paulo (New Filmmakers Competition), Transilvania (Supernova), Ghent (Competition): Best Film, Mill Valley (World)

Synopsis

When young Turkish-German woman Umay can no longer stand her husband’s ill-treatment, she flees from Istanbul with her five-year-old son into the arms of her family in Berlin. But love, affection, and loyalty soon become irrelevant as they struggle to reconcile Umay’s willful self-determination with the social system that governs their lives. This passion piece on female flight from oppression builds its considerable dramatic intensity to a glowing payoff. —Tribeca Film Festival

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Kleine

26Feb12

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msmichel

20Feb12

Sibel Kekilli gives one of the most anquishing and emotionally draining performances in recent memory in this fine work by young director Feo Aladag who offers a mature work far past her years. Not an easy watch true but rewarding in how it questions our perceptions and prejudices watching a societal tradition we cannot fathom. ' if they have to choose between you and the community the community will always win"

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oldeuboi

23Dec11

What year these people lives? The never ending sorrow just made it look like a cheesy 70's melodrama.

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MR. Universe

3Oct11

Ultra depressing, hard to sit through. the film just seems cruel to this young woman and it keeps piling on the hardships. For no particular reason. it was like emotional torture porn. Well acted but still. It is a onslaught. Just a bit too much.

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"When We Leave," "Kaboom," More

By David Hudson on January 28, 2011

"When We Leave, the first feature written and directed by Feo Aladag, is a somber, sometimes powerful and frequently schematic drama about

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Reverse Shot, Berlin & Beyond

By David Hudson on October 20, 2010

"For our 28th symposium, Reverse Shot's American All-Stars, we asked our writers to pick a contemporary filmmaker from a Latin American

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"God has nothing to do with this"

By Thorste​n on May 3, 2010

On February 7th, 2005, 23-year-old Hatun Sürücü, a girl of turkish-kurdish descent who was born in Germany, was waiting at a bus stop near her flat in Berlin-Tempelhof. Years before, she had left her…  read review

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