Movielogr
My Mother (2002)
Directed by Buket Alakuş
Overview
Anam, age 40, is a traditional Turkish wife and mother who lives with her family in a German city. She works as a cleaner and has made two friends: man-crazy German Rita and superstitious African Didi. When she finds out that her 20-year-old son Deniz has drifted into the drug scene and her husband Mehmet is having an affair with a colleague, her whole world collapses around her. Although desperate she is determined to fight and goes looking for Deniz. Instead she finds his girlfriend Mandy, who is also a drug addict. She decides to take care of the girl who is a stranger to her and finds herself confronted with an entirely unknown world. When she finally manages to track Deniz down to the cold-blooded dealer Hassain, he rejects her. Anam is forced to realize that painful as it is she can only help Deniz if he is prepared to accept her help
Length 86 minutes
Actors
Nursel Köse | Tayfun Bademsoy | Saskia Vester | Leonard Lansink | Birol Ünel | Kailas Mahadevan | Najely Chumana | Jülide Girisken | Audrey Motaung | Navid Navid | Patrycia Ziolkowska