A drama centered around a German construction manager who works with undocumented workers and an Albanian girl searching for her missing father.
Acting
Prenci's silence speaks entire dissertations.
Direction
Kaptan refuses easy catharsis, and it's brutal.
Director
Tuna Kaptan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released amid Germany's reckoning with Gastarbeiter exploitation, the film weaponizes bureaucratic realism against national self-mythology.
Kaptan cast actual undocumented workers in background roles; their legal precarity mirrored their characters'—some scenes required shooting without permits.
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