Films by Jörg Süß

Germany 2010, 87 min
by Barbara Trottnow

A long-term observation on Turkish women migrating to Germany because they marry a Turkish man living there. Once the men’s families have gone to Germany as foreign workers. A language school in Balıkesir (Turkey) is the starting point for the film. There the women learn German, because only with the proof of German knowledge they get a visa for Germany. The film accompanies three women of a German course on their way in a new life. It shows how they have lived in Turkey and how difficult t