Archive: Year 2022
Sonic Transmissions: Music on Film
Love, Deutschmarks and Death
Aşk, Mark ve Ölüm
Director
Cem Kaya
Producers
Claus Reichel
Florian Schewe
Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay
Stefan Kauertz
Cinematographers
Cem Kaya
Christian Kochmann
Julius Dommer
Mahmoud Belakhel
Editor
Cem Kaya
Sound
Henning Hein
Website
Contact
Greenhouse PR, Berlin
Silke Lehmann
[email protected]
+49 151 68 1000 88
2022
Germany
96 min
Color, Black & White
Love, Deutschmarks and Death tells the story of the independent and largely unknown music of immigrants from Turkey and their children and grandchildren in Germany in a very lively way, full of rhythm. In the form of a documentary essay, director Cem Kaya takes his viewers into a dazzling universe of musical diversity. In a cinematic experience of the highest sound quality, he brings the energy and spirit of those years to life. E.g., the stage shows of the eccentric folk duo Derdiyoklar at a wedding with thousands of guests in a multi-purpose hall redecorated as a festival hall somewhere in the Ruhr region: melancholic, but danceable, political, but cheerful, larmoyant in expression, but sincere.
Director
Cem Kaya, born 1976 in Schweinfurt is a filmmaker from Bavaria. After studying communication design at the Merz Academy in Stuttgart with Prof. Christoph Dreher (1999–2005), he first worked as a producer, editor and director for commercials and music videos. Together with the Ludwigsburg film producer Jochen Laube, he made his first two feature-length documen- taries Arabeks (Arte, 2010, co-directed with Gökhan Bulut) and Remake, Remix, Rip-Off (ZDF Das kleine Fernsehspiel, 2014), produced by UFA Fiction. While Arabeks was about the music culture of internal migration in Turkey, Remake, Remix, Rip-Off was about the Turkish film industry Yesilçam and its custom of remaking Hollywood blockbusters for their domestic cinema market.
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