Deine Schönheit ist nichts wert (2012)
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Abdulkadir Tuncer, Nazmî Kirik, Lale Yavaş, Milica Paucic, Orhan Yıldırım, Yüşa Durak
A newly arrived Kurdish-Turkish boy in Vienna tries to express his feelings for a girl by learning a poem in German.
The story
Twelve-year-old Veysel and his family have just arrived in Vienna, where the threat of deportation and his older brother’s descent into delinquency unsettle family life. Veysel refuses to speak, but falls in love with a teenage girl who, like him, comes from an immigrant background. Hoping to reach her, he memorizes in German “Your Beauty Is Worth Nothing,” a poem by the Turkish poet and singer Âşık Veysel, who shares his name.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Veysel is a twelve-year-old boy of Kurdish and Turkish origin. He and his family have just arrived in Vienna. He watches his family fall apart in the face of deportation threats and his older brother’s downward spiral into delinquency. He refuses to speak, but he is in love with another teenage girl from an immigrant background. For her, he memorizes in German the poem “Your Beauty Is Worth Nothing” by the Turkish poet and singer Âşık Veysel, who shares his name.
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