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MY FATHER, THE GUEST WORKER

OV with English subs
Followed by a talk with

Mein Vater, der Gastarbeiter (My Father, the Guest Worker)
Yüksel Yavuz, Germany, 1995, 52 min.

The Kurdish director Yüksel Yavuz tells in an autobiographical documentary film about the life of his father, who worked from 1968 to 1984 as a so-called guest worker on a Hamburg shipyard. He knew only the way to work, to the fish market and to the cafe and he never really felt at home. Yavuz succeeds in creating a touching testimony of the time, in which he traces the personal life story of his father and connects it with a part of West German history.


Sie dienen Allah und den Deutschen (They serve Allah and the Germans)
Michael Brückner and Peter Heller, Germany, 1973, 25 min.

Before My Father, the Guest Worker the 16mm short film They serve Allah and the Germans by Michael Brückner and Peter Heller will be screened. The documentary depicts the role of religion for the Turkish Guest Workers in an iron foundry in Frankfurt.