22/11/2011

While Germany is investigating the "kebab crimes", a series of murders committed by a gang of extreme-right militants who have been targeting the Turkish community, in Italy Teodora Film brings Almanya [+see also:
trailer
interview: Yasemin Samderely
film profile] to cinemas on December 6, a comedy about a family that emigrated to German in the 1960s and has now reached its third generation.

A champion of takings at home, with more than €11 million at box office, and well received at the latest Berlin Film Festival (see the review)Almanya marks the film debut of young sisters Yasemin and Nesrin Samdereli, director and co-writer respectively, who the German media have defined as "the female Coens".

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(Translated from Italian)