Farewell to False Paradise

Audience Score
70
Farewell to False Paradise
NR 1 hr 36 minDrama
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 neverbefore known taste of freedom among these strangers who dont 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
DirectorTevfik Başer
WritersSibylle SchönemannTevfik BaşerCornelius Bischoff

Movie Details

Original Language:German
Production Companies:ZDF Studio Hamburg Filmproduktion Ottokar Runze Filmproduktion