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SOUL KITCHEN
SOUL KITCHEN (photo © corazón international/Gordon Timpen)
Young restaurant owner Zinos is down on his luck. His girlfriend Nadine has moved to Shanghai, his "Soul Kitchen" customers are boycotting the new gourmet chef, and he's having back trouble! Things start looking up when the hip crowd embraces his revamped culinary concept, but that doesn't mend Zinos’ broken heart. He decides to fly to China for Nadine, leaving the restaurant in the hands of his unreliable ex-con brother Illias. Both decisions turn out disastrous: Illias gambles away the restaurant to a shady real estate agent and Nadine has found a new lover! But brothers Zinos and Illias might still have one last chance to get Soul Kitchen back if they can stop arguing and work together as a team.
Fatih Akin was born 1973 in Hamburg to Turkish parents and is one of Germany’s most internationally known and multi award-winning directors. He studied Film at the Academy of Fine Arts (HfbK) in Hamburg and graduated in 2000. From 1993 to 2004 he worked with WÜSTE Filmproduktion in Hamburg. In 2003 he founded his own film production company, corazón international. In 2005 he was a visiting professor at the HfbK Hamburg. He was a member of the juries at the Festival du Film International de Cannes (2005) and the International Film Festival Berlin (2001). A selection of his films includes: SHORT SHARP SHOCK (1998), IN JULY (2000), SOLINO (2002), HEAD-ON (2004), CROSSING THE BRIDGE – THE SOUND OF ISTANBUL (2005), THE EDGE OF HEAVEN (2007), SOUL KITCHEN (2009), and POLLUTING PARADISE (2012).
Category Feature
Year of Production 2009
Director Fatih Akin
Screenplay Fatih Akin
Director of Photography Rainer Klausmann
Editor Andrew Bird
Music by Klaus Maeck
Production Design Tamo Kunz
Cast Anna Bederke, Dorka Gryllus, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Demir Goekgoel, Marc Hosemann, Cem Akin, Pheline Roggan, Birol Uenel, Moritz Bleibtreu, Lucas Gregorowicz, Adam Bousdoukos, Udo Kier
Producers Klaus Maeck, Fatih Akin
Production Company corazón international/Hamburg, in co-production with NDR/Hamburg, Pyramide Productions/Paris, in cooperation with Dorje Film/Rome
Length 99 min
Format 35 mm, color
Original Version German
Subtitled Version English
Sound Technology Dolby Digital
Sound Technology Dolby Digital, Surround EX
Festivals Venice 2009 (In Competition), Toronto 2009, Ghent 2009, Thessaloniki 2009 (Opening Film), Gijon 2009, Tallinn Black Nights 2009, Berlin 2010 (German Cinema), Sofia 2010, Tribeca 2010, CPH:PIX Copenhagen 2010, San Francisco 2010, Seattle 2010, Shanghai 2011, Plus Cameraimage 2011
Awards Special Jury Prize Venice 2009
With backing from German Federal Film Board, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, German Federal Film Fund, nordmedia Fonds, BKM
German Distributor Pandora Film Verleih/Cologne
World Sales
The Match Factory GmbH
Michael Weber
Balthasarstr. 79-81
50670 Cologne/Germany
phone +49-2 21-5 39 70 90
fax +49-2 21-5 39 70 910
info@matchfactory.de
http://www.the-match-factory.com
Year of Production 2009
Director Fatih Akin
Screenplay Fatih Akin
Director of Photography Rainer Klausmann
Editor Andrew Bird
Music by Klaus Maeck
Production Design Tamo Kunz
Cast Anna Bederke, Dorka Gryllus, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Demir Goekgoel, Marc Hosemann, Cem Akin, Pheline Roggan, Birol Uenel, Moritz Bleibtreu, Lucas Gregorowicz, Adam Bousdoukos, Udo Kier
Producers Klaus Maeck, Fatih Akin
Production Company corazón international/Hamburg, in co-production with NDR/Hamburg, Pyramide Productions/Paris, in cooperation with Dorje Film/Rome
Length 99 min
Format 35 mm, color
Original Version German
Subtitled Version English
Sound Technology Dolby Digital
Sound Technology Dolby Digital, Surround EX
Festivals Venice 2009 (In Competition), Toronto 2009, Ghent 2009, Thessaloniki 2009 (Opening Film), Gijon 2009, Tallinn Black Nights 2009, Berlin 2010 (German Cinema), Sofia 2010, Tribeca 2010, CPH:PIX Copenhagen 2010, San Francisco 2010, Seattle 2010, Shanghai 2011, Plus Cameraimage 2011
Awards Special Jury Prize Venice 2009
With backing from German Federal Film Board, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, German Federal Film Fund, nordmedia Fonds, BKM
German Distributor Pandora Film Verleih/Cologne
World Sales
The Match Factory GmbH
Michael Weber
Balthasarstr. 79-81
50670 Cologne/Germany
phone +49-2 21-5 39 70 90
fax +49-2 21-5 39 70 910
info@matchfactory.de
http://www.the-match-factory.com
