SYNOPSIS
Desperate to help her son, Rabiye Kurnaz, a housewife and loving mother from Bremen, goes to the police, notifies authorities and almost despairs at their impotence and in the end, against all the odds, something truly remarkable happens.
Awards
Silver Berlin Bear for Best Screenplay, Best Leading Performance, Guild Film Prize | Berlinale, Germany, 2022
Best Actress, Audience Award | Nuremberg FF, Germany, 2022
CAST & CREW
Andreas Dresen
Director
Producer(s)
Andreas Dresen, Christoph Friedel, Claudia Steffen
Script
Laila Stieler
Director of Photography
Andreas Höfer
Production designer
Susanne Hopf
Music by
Johannes Repka, Cenk Erdogan
Sound
Oswald Schwander, Ralf Krause, Peter Schmidt
Edit
Jörg Hauschild
Cast
Meltem Kaptan, Alexander Scheer, Charly Hübner
Production company(ies)
Pandora Film Produktion
Andreas Dresen
Born 1963. Andreas Dresen is a German film director and writer. He began making amateur films in 1979. He was a trainee at the DEFA feature film studio in 1985-86, where he was assistant director to Günter Reisch. He studied directing at the College of Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg from 1986-91, where he graduated. From 1990-92 he took part in Günter Reisch’s master classes at Berlin Academy of Arts. He has been working as a screenwriter and director since 1992 and became a member of Berlin Academy of Arts in 1998. Halbe Treppe was awarded the Silver Berlin Bear in 2002, and Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush won Silver Berlin Bear in 2022. His film Stopped on Track premiered at the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes FF, where it won the Prize of Un Certain Regard. Dresen also was awarded at Karlovy Vary and Yerevan IFFs. He was a member of the Jury at the Berlin IFF in 2003 and 2013.
Filmography
Der kleine Clown (short, 1985), Konsequenzen-Peters/25 (short, 1987), Schritte des anderen (short, 1987), Nachts schlafen die Ratten (short, 1988), Was jeder muß... (doc., 1988), Jenseits von Klein Wanzleben (doc., 1989), Zug in die Ferne (short, 1990), Lulu (short, 1991), Stilles Land (1992), Night Shapes (1999), Grill Point (2002), Denk ich an Deutschland - Herr Wichmann von der CDU (doc., 2003), Willenbrock (2005), Summer in Berlin (2005), Cloud 9 (2008), Whisky mit Wodka (2009), Stopped on Track (2011), Herr Wichmann aus der dritten Reihe (doc., 2012), Brandenburg (2013), As We Were Dreaming (2015) The Legend of Timm Thaler or The Boy Who Sold His Laughter (2017), Gundermann (2018), Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush (2022).
