Farewell to False Paradise

Farewell to False Paradise (1989)

Drama

Ironies abound in this extremely sad melodrama about Elif, a Turkish immigrant in Germany who has been sent to prison for murdering her abusive husband. At the time of her imprisonment, she has never ventured outside the Turkish community, and even there has had no friends because of the demands her husband placed on her. She speaks no German. Now, in a place which most people find to be hell on earth, she gains a never-before known taste of freedom among these strangers, who don't even speak her own language. Unfortunately, as a "guest worker," she is horrified to discover that she is soon to be transferred to the horrific prisons of Turkey and will stand trial there for her crime, which will be much less understandingly dealt with in her home country than it would have been in Germany. The false paradise she must say goodbye to is her German prison.

Director: Tevfik Başer

Casts

	Zuhal Olcay as Elif
	Brigitte Janner as Marianne
	Ruth Olafsdottir as Gabriella
	Barbara Morawiecz as Nora
	Brigitte Böttrich as Christine
	Tatjana Clasing as Barbara
	Erla Prollius as Wärterin
	Eva-Maria Kurz as
	Petra Barthel as
	Çelik Bilge as
	Birgül Topçugürler as
	Annemarie Assmann as

Crew