| Straight | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Nicolas Flessa |
| Written by | Nicolas Flessa |
| Produced by | Alexander Salokin (producer) Piera Pos (executive) |
| Starring | Beba Ebner Eralp Uzun Florian Sonnefeld Oktay Özdemir Özgür Ozata Hakan Can |
| Cinematography | Giuseppe Vaccaro |
| Edited by | Nicolas Flessa |
| Music by | Boris Bojadzhiev |
| Distributed by | Salzgeber & Co. Medien GmbH (Germany) |
Running time | 60 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | German |
Straight is a 2007 German film by director Nicolas Flessa.
The young German-Polish Jana does everything possible to give the impression of a straight acting woman. Her good-looking, bourgeois friend David and her pretence to work for a newspaper are attempts to hide her inner conflicts and her true occupation of a social worker in the low-prestigious Berlin district of Neukoelln.
But there is the young German Turk Nazim, who also tries hard to keep up the appearance of straightness. Night after night he goes out with his homies, dances with girls like Jana and deals with drugs on Hermann Square. Neither his best buddy Akin nor his playmates are suspicious.
Since his nocturnal encounter with a young German guy on Sonnenallee it has got more difficult for him to keep up the façade of normal life. This is the beginning of a love triangle that is dangerous for the self-understanding of all parties: because Nazim's new lover is no one else but Janas boy friend David...
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Beba Ebner | Jana |
| Eralp Uzun | Nazim |
| Florian Sonnefeld | David |
| Oktay Özdemir | Akin |
| Annabelle Dorn | Julia |
| Soner Ulutas | Firat |
| Hakan Can | Orhan |
| Özgür Özata | Hakan |
In addition to the soundtrack of Boris Bojadhziev the Berlin Band Kitty Solaris contributed some songs to the film:
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