My Father the Guest Worker

The Kurdish director Yüksel Yavuz tells in an autobiographical documentary about the life of his father who worked as a socalled guest worker at a Hamburg shipyard from 1968 to 1984 Never really at home he only knew the way to work the fish market and the coffee house Yavuz succeeds in creating a touching contemporary document in which he traces the personal life story of his father and connects it with a piece of the social history of the FRG