My Mother (2002)
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
Director: Buket Alakuş
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Nursel Köse as Anam |
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Tayfun Bademsoy as Mehmet |
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Saskia Vester as Rita |
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Leonard Lansink as Bernd |
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Birol Ünel as Hasan |
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Kailas Mahadevan as |
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Najely Chumana as |
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Jülide Girisken as |
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Audrey Motaung as |
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Navid Navid as |
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Patrycia Ziolkowska as |
| Editing | Ann-Sophie Schweizer | Editor |
| Sound | Marion Blume | Sound Editor |
| Camera | Marcus Lambrecht | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Buket Alakuş | Writer |
| Sound | Sascha Heiny | Sound Mixer |
| Sound | Maarten van de Voort | Sound Mixer |
| Directing | Buket Alakuş | Director |