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Kaddisch für einen Freund (2012)
Directed by Leo Khasin
“Equality is the soul of friendship.”
Drama, Comedy · 1h 34m
Growing up in a Palestinian refugee camp, 14-year-old Ali Messalam learned to hate "the Jews" from an early age. After fleeing Lebanon with his family, he arrives in Berlin Kreuzberg. Here, Ali tries to make friends with the Arab youths in the neighborhood. But first he has to prove what he can do. As a test of courage, he is asked to break into the apartment of his Jewish-Russian neighbor Alexander. The youngsters follow Ali and trash the old man's apartment to excess. But only Ali is recognized by Alexander, who returns early, and is reported to the police. In order to avoid a conviction and the associated deportation, he has only one chance: Ali must approach his hated enemy and ask for his support...
Cast
Ryszard Ronczewski
Alexander
Neil Belakhdar
Ali
Neil Malik Abdullah
Walid
Sanam Afrashteh
Mouna
Kida Khodr Ramadan
Mahmoud
Heinz W. Krückeberg
Isja
Anna Böttcher
Schwester Sabine
Stefan Merki
Staatsanwalt
Joachim Nimtz
Kommissar Doll
Crew
- Director
- Leo Khasin
- Writer
- Leo Khasin
- Director of Photography
- Mathias Schöningh
- Original Music Composer
- Fabian Römer, Dieter Schleip
- Producer
- Martin Bach
Details
- Release date
- 2012-03-15
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- German
- Countries
- Germany
- Production
- ARD