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Far from Home
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Far from Home

1975-08-01 · 91 min · ★ 7.0

Drama

Turkish migrant Husseyin spends his days in hypnotic routine as a “guest worker” in ‘70s West Berlin, living in a small, shared apartment and commuting daily to his job at a factory pressing machine parts. Diligently saving up his wages he hopes to one day marry and buy a house back home, but his immediate future in Berlin is clouded by indignities at the hands of racist coworkers and botched attempts at romantic intimacy.

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Directors
Sohrab Shahid-Saless
Production companies
New Film Group and Telefilm, Provobis Film, Tel Film
Countries
Germany, Iran
Status
Released

Top Cast

Parviz SayyadParviz SayyadHusseyin
Cihan AnasaiStudent
Muhammet TemizkanKasim
Hüsamettin KayaOsman
Imran KayaOsman's Wife
Sakibe KayaOsman's Daughter
Wurdu Püsküllü
Ursula KesslerOlder Woman
Renate DerrWoman in the Park
Stanislaus SolotarCantine Worker
Heinz BernardHeinz BernardSubway Worker
Yagizer Aybas
Ilona Breuer
Elvira Hentschel
Ute BokelmannHannelore

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