• Sat 20 04 2024 / 4:30 pm •
Black Head
Turkey 1979, 82 min.
By KORHAN YURTSEVER
In conversation with CAN SUNGU
With BETÜL AŞÇIOĞLU, SAVAŞ YURTTAŞ, CÜNEYT KAYMAK, ÖZLEM GÜLER, MACIT FLORDUN, GÜLSEN TUNCER, ERCAN DEMIREL, BÜLENT ORAN, WOLFGANG ESCH, BAHRI ATEŞ
The film Kara Kafa, completed in the early 1980s by Turkish director Korhan Yurtsever, is dedicated to Turkish labor migration to Germany. It tells of loneliness, political resistance, trade union organization and the feminist movement. After it was made in 1980, the film was banned by the censorship committee in Turkey because it would "offend the honor of Germany, the befriended nation". The director consequently went into exile in Germany.
What is it about? Turkish metalworker Cafer migrates to Germany with his family in the hope of a better life. But conflicts soon arise within and outside the family. Cafer's wife becomes involved in the women's movement and changes both externally and mentally due to the influence of friends, his older son is lonely and doesn't want to go to school, his daughter has to stay at home and look after her newborn brother. The original negatives of the film were surprisingly rediscovered and restored in 2022, so that it is now possible to see this unique contemporary document in the Lichtspiele Kalk and talk to the director afterwards.
Sat 20 04 2024 | 4:30 pm
Doors open: 4 pm
Lichtspiele Kalk
Kalk-Mülheimer Str. 130/132, 51103 Cologne
Turkish with German subtitles
Free entry | Free choice of seats
Optional reservation by telephone via Lichtspiele Kalk: 0221 29 49 49 79
The room is step-free accessible
