Film

Far from Home

7.019751h 31m14Drama

Age rating: 14
Director: Sohrab Shahid-Saless
Year: 1975

Turkish migrant Husseyin spends his days in hypnotic routine as a “guest worker” in ‘70s West Berlin, living in a small, shared apartment and commuting daily to his job at a factory pressing machine parts. Diligently saving up his wages he hopes to one day marry and buy a house back home, but his immediate future in Berlin is clouded by indignities at the hands of racist coworkers and botched attempts at romantic intimacy.

Top cast

Parviz Sayyad

Husseyin

Cihan Anasai

Student

Muhammet Temizkan

Kasim

Hüsamettin Kaya

Osman

Imran Kaya

Osman's Wife

Sakibe Kaya

Osman's Daughter

Wurdu Püsküllü

Ursula Kessler

Older Woman

Renate Derr

Woman in the Park

Stanislaus Solotar

Cantine Worker

Heinz Bernard

Subway Worker

Yagizer Aybas

Ilona Breuer

Elvira Hentschel

Ute Bokelmann

Hannelore

Directed by

Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Written by

Helga Houzer, Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Produced by

Otto Erich Kress