My Father the Turk (0+)
Germany , 2007, b/w, 89 min.
Director: Marcus Vetter
Director: Marcus Vetter
Marcus Attila Vetter has a Turkish father and he goes to visit him for the first time in this documentary. He travels to a village where his 72-year-old father lives with hisfamily. Marcus films the Turkish landscape and talks with his newly found family. In the meantime, we hear passages read in voice-over from the diary of Marcus's mother Gerlinde, from the time that she was with Cahit - how they met, fell in love and ultimately broke up. Cahit left for Anatolia when his mother was pregnant.
AWARDS
Prix Europa/Prix Iris, San Francisco Golden Gate Award, Festival Türkei/Deutschland, Audience Award Vera Film Festival, Aland, Finland.
Marcus Vetter
Marcus Vetter
has studied Economics and Media Communication in Tübingen and Madrid, speaks five languages and is happily married having two kids. His feature documentary «The Tunnel» on a famous escape of East Germans through a legendary tunnel in Berlin in the 1950’s has been one of the best-selling German TV documentaries and winner of prestigious awards.
FILMOGRAPHY
«The Tunnel», «Ein Schweinegeld», «Tikal – the Maya Heritage», 1999; «Wo das Geld wächst», 2000; «Broadway Bruchsal», 2001; «Wargames», 2002; «Florida. Streets of the Duped», 2003; «The Battle for Bruckmann», 2004; «My Father the Turk», 2006.
Germany , 2007, b/w, 89 min.
Director: Marcus Vetter
Director: Marcus Vetter
Marcus Attila Vetter has a Turkish father and he goes to visit him for the first time in this documentary. He travels to a village where his 72-year-old father lives with hisfamily. Marcus films the Turkish landscape and talks with his newly found family. In the meantime, we hear passages read in voice-over from the diary of Marcus's mother Gerlinde, from the time that she was with Cahit - how they met, fell in love and ultimately broke up. Cahit left for Anatolia when his mother was pregnant.
AWARDS
Prix Europa/Prix Iris, San Francisco Golden Gate Award, Festival Türkei/Deutschland, Audience Award Vera Film Festival, Aland, Finland.