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Macondo (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
German ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
96 min + 12 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Behind the scenes
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2014 and produced in:
Austria ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Sudabeh Mortezai

Written By:
Sudabeh Mortezai

Actors:
Ramasan Minkailov ..... Ramasan
Aslan Elbiev ..... Isa
Kheda Gazieva ..... Aminat
Rosa Minkailova ..... Police Officer
Iman Nasuhanowa
Askhab Umaev
Hamsat Nasuhanow
Champascha Sadulajev
Denise Teipel

Synopsis:

***ATTENTION***Mixed language audio with German & English subtitles***Ramasan has a lot of responsibility for an 11-year-old. In traditional Chechen society, he is now considered the man of the house in charge of his mother and two younger sisters. His world is now centered in Macondo, a tough ethnic neighborhood in the industrial suburbs of Vienna. Ramasan speaks German much better than his mother Aminat, and he often translates for her regarding school and government welfare matters. Aminat is still coping with having lost her husband, fleeing Chechnya and trying to make ends meet as a single mother and foreigner in a new society. Ramasan's confined world is disrupted when Isa, his father's war buddy, moves into the low-income housing complex. Isa pays his respects to Aminat and her children, giving them the watch and a family photo his dead friend always carried with him. This encounter awakens Ramasan's interest in his father. He seeks Isa's company, but the outsider remains secretive about the past. Isa gradually opens up and a bond evolves between them that helps young Ramasan face and overcome his worst fear. Isa could become a new, much more human, father figure than the boy's abstract memory of the war hero at the family altar. But when Aminat begins to warm up to Isa, conflicted Ramasan feels the need to protect the image of his dead father...

An 11-year-old Chechnyan refugee living in Vienna whose life is thrown into disarray when a friend of his deceased father materializes.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 05 May, 2015.

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