Farewell to False Paradise
6.9
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.
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Cast
12 people
Zuhal Olcay
Elif
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Brigitte Janner
Marianne
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Ruth Olafsdottir
Gabriella
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Barbara Morawiecz
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Brigitte Böttrich
Christine
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Barbara
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Erla Prollius
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Eva-Maria Kurz
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Petra Barthel
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Çelik Bilge
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Birgül Topçugürler
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Tevfik Başer Director · Sibylle Schönemann Writer Cornelius Bischoff Writer
First release May 11, 1989 · Produced in Germany · Languages German, Turkish
Production
ZDF
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Studio Hamburg Filmproduktion
Production
Ottokar Runze Filmproduktion
Production
Germany
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Original title
Abschied vom falschen Paradies
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
German · Turkish
Release dates
Germany · May 11, 1989
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No release date listed for United States.
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