Kebab Connection

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Kebab Connection
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Directed by Anno Saul
Written byRalph Schwingel
Fatih Akın
Ruth Toma
Jan Berger
Anno Saul
Produced byStefan Schubert
Starring Denis Moschitto
Nora Tschirner
Distributed byUniversum Film
Release dates
  • October 2004 (2004-10)(Hof International Film Festival)
  • 21 April 2005 (2005-04-21)(Germany)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryGermany
Languages German
Turkish
Greek
Budget2 400 000 €

Kebab Connection is a 2004 German-Turkish comedy film with some slapstick that is set in Hamburg and directed by Anno Saul.

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Plot

Ibo (Denis Moschitto) is a young Turkish-German man who is an aspiring filmmaker. A clash of cultures and pre-parental anxiety ensues after Ibo's German girlfriend, Titzi (Nora Tschirner), announces that she's pregnant. Ibo's father (Güven Kıraç) is upset at his son for wanting to start a family with a non-Turkish German woman while Titzi is upset at Ibo over his hesitance in taking on fatherly responsibilities. Other themes are the competition of a Turkish kebab restaurant and a Greek taverna, a gang trying to extort the owner of the kebab restaurant, Ibo's quest to make the first German Kung-Fu movie and the pursuit of both Titzi and her roommate at a prestigious drama academy.

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