Last Saturday I watched a pretty sad but realistic movie with my best friends Kathy, Lisa, Shirin and Gudi in the KIZ Royal cinema. I was made aware of the movie by the info-screen in the tramway. The movie is called "Deine Schönheit ist nichts wert". It is an Austrian production directed by Hüseyin Tabak. The movie is set in Vienna and depicts the difficult life of a Kurdish-Turkish immigrant family, which has to struggle with a bunch of problems: The 12-year-old Veysel is a weak student who does not know German very well, because his family has been in Austria for a couple of months only. His older brother Mazlum (18) runs away from home because he has problems accepting that his father spent years in Turkish mountains as a Kurdish freedom fighter. In addition to that, the family is about to be deported because the Austrian asylum authority rejects their application for political asylum – even though the family would suffer from persecution in case they were sent back to Turkey. Meanwhile Veysel falls in love with his school friend Ana, who he wants to charm by reciting a Turkish poem. To do so, he needs to translate it into German and learn it by heart.
At this point I stop telling you about the plot, my dear readers, because I really do not want to give to much away. The movie is absolutely worth watching as it is very well made. I usually watch movies that evoke emotions while watching – "Deine Schönheit ist nichts wert" is such a movie. My friends and I ended up crying our eyes out! (So I do recommend taking a box of Kleenex with you...) And you cannot do anything against it, because it shows the ugly truth without whitewashing anything. The actors play their roles with so much passion and honesty that you really believe the story is happening in front of you.
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