Dealer (1999)
Can and his girlfriend, Jale, live with their young daughter, Meral, in a tough Turkish neighbourhood of Berlin and barely manage to scrape enough money together for their existence. Can is a small-time dealer and errand-boy for drug boss Hakan, who has to keep his customers supplied within his narrowly staked out territory. Jale, who works in the ware-house of a department store, has been pressing Can to give up this activity. Can, also fed up with his situation, sees a bright new beginning for himself and his family when Hakan offers him the prospective chance to run a bar on his very own. But Can has little control over the pressures that gradually begin to build up around him and soon finds himself floundering in quicksand.
Director: Thomas Arslan
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Tamer Yiğit as Can |
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Birol Ünel as Erdal |
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İdil Üner as Jale |
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Baki Davrak as Zeki |
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Hussi Kutlucan as Hakan |
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Marquard Bohm as Vorbesitzer der Bar |
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Bilge Bingul as Yello |
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Erhan Emre as Metin |
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Halit Bademsoy as |
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Angela Schanelec as Eva |
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Tim Wilde as |
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Neco Çelik as Küchenhilfe |
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Ramazan Coskun as Murat |
| Directing | Thomas Arslan | Director |
| Writing | Thomas Arslan | Writer |
| Production | Käte Caspar | Producer |
| Editing | Bettina Blickwede | Editor |
| Camera | Michael Wiesweg | Director of Photography |