SOUL KITCHEN
by Fatih Akin
synopsis
Young restaurant owner Zinos is down on his luck. His girlfriend Nadine has moved to Shanghai, his “Soul Kitchen” customers are boycotting the new gourmet chef, and he’s having back trouble! Things start looking up when the hip crowd embraces his revamped culinary concept, but that doesn’t mend Zinos’ broken heart. He decides to fly to China for Nadine, leaving the restaurant in the hands of his unreliable excon brother Illias. Both decisions turn out disastrous: Illias gambles away the restaurant to a shady real estate agent and Nadine has found a new lover! But brothers Zinos and Illias might still have one last chance to get “Soul Kitchen” back if they can stop arguing and work together as a team.
international title: | Soul Kitchen |
original title: | Soul Kitchen |
country: | Germany, France |
sales agent: | The Match Factory |
year: | 2009 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Fatih Akin |
film run: | 99' |
release date: | GR 17/12/2009, DE 25/12/2009, IT 08/01/2010, FR 03/03/2010, BE 17/03/2010, ES 30/03/2010, NL 13/05/2010, RO 11/06/2010 |
screenplay: | Fatih Akin |
cast: | Moritz Bleibtreu, Adam Bousdoukos, Birol Ünel, Anna Bederke, Lucas Gregorowicz, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Demir Gökgöl, Pheline Roggan, Dorka Gryllus, Marc Hosemann |
cinematography by: | Rainer Klausmann |
film editing: | Andrew Bird |
art director: | Tamo Kunz |
costumes designer: | Katrin Aschendorf |
music: | Klaus Maeck |
producer: | Fatih Akin, Klaus Maeck |
production: | Corazón International, Pyramide Productions |
backing: | German Federal Film Board (FFA), BKM, FilmFoerderung Hamburg, Nordmedia |
distributor: | Pandora Film Distribution, BIM Distribuzione, Golem Distribución, Cinéart, Pathé Films AG, Independenta Film |