My Mother

My Mother — Plot

Anam, age 40, is a traditional Turkish wife and mother who lives with her family in a German city. She works as a cleaner and has made two friends: man-crazy German Rita and superstitious African Didi. When she finds out that her 20-year-old son Deniz has drifted into the drug scene and her husband Mehmet is having an affair with a colleague, her whole world collapses around her. Although desperate she is determined to fight and goes looking for Deniz. Instead she finds his girlfriend Mandy, who is also a drug addict. She decides to take care of the girl who is a stranger to her and finds herself confronted with an entirely unknown world. When she finally manages to track Deniz down to the cold-blooded dealer Hassain, he rejects her. Anam is forced to realize that painful as it is she can only help Deniz if he is prepared to accept her help

• Release date
• April 25, 2002
• Runtime
• 86 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Buket Alakuş

My Mother — Cast

Nursel Köse Anam Tayfun Bademsoy Mehmet Saskia Vester Rita Leonard Lansink Bernd Birol Ünel Hasan Kailas Mahadevan

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Najely Chumana

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Jülide Girisken