My Mother (2002)

  • NR
  • 04/25/2002 (DE)
  • Drama
  • 1h 26m

Overview

Anam, age 40, is a traditional Turkish wife and mother who lives with her family in a German city. She works as a cleaner and has made two friends: man-crazy German Rita and superstitious African Didi. When she finds out that her 20-year-old son Deniz has drifted into the drug scene and her husband Mehmet is having an affair with a colleague, her whole world collapses around her. Although desperate she is determined to fight and goes looking for Deniz. Instead she finds his girlfriend Mandy, who is also a drug addict. She decides to take care of the girl who is a stranger to her and finds herself confronted with an entirely unknown world. When she finally manages to track Deniz down to the cold-blooded dealer Hassain, he rejects her. Anam is forced to realize that painful as it is she can only help Deniz if he is prepared to accept her help

Buket Alakuş

Writer, Director

Cast

Nursel Köse's headshot

Nursel Köse

Anam
Tayfun Bademsoy's headshot

Tayfun Bademsoy

Mehmet
Saskia Vester's headshot

Saskia Vester

Rita
Leonard Lansink's headshot

Leonard Lansink

Bernd
Birol Ünel's headshot

Birol Ünel

Hasan
Kailas Mahadevan's headshot

Kailas Mahadevan

Najely Chumana's headshot

Najely Chumana

Jülide Girisken's headshot

Jülide Girisken

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