Servus, Schwiegersohn! (2019)

Toni Freitag is the proud father of an adult daughter, a happy husband, a self-employed tradesman, a well-liked member of the community, active in the shooting club and volunteer fire brigade, and, above all, a Bavarian through and through. He has successfully repressed the fact that he is actually Turkish, that “Toni” was once his nickname, and that his real name was Tolga Büyüktürk ever since he married his German wife, Anne Freitag. When she unexpectedly tries to stop him from picking up their daughter at the train station when she returns from her holiday in Mallorca, he gets a strange feeling. And rightly so: it gradually emerges that their daughter Franzi actually spent her holiday in Bodrum, Toni’s birthplace in Turkey, to learn more about her Turkish roots. There, she met the love of her life—and, on top of that, his wife knew all about it. But that’s not all: Franzi has brought her new partner, Osman Göker, a Berlin computer science student of Turkish descent, back to her Bavarian hometown. They make their first contact with her father at the station, where Osman immediately addresses Toni in Turkish. Toni is stunned, and since he is neither impressed by Osman nor happy about his relationship with his daughter, it isn’t long before father and daughter quarrel. Frustrated, Franzi tells him that she and Osman want to get married. By now, Toni’s alarm bells are ringing: in his view, a real man like Bene, the village policeman—and, to boot, the son of Toni’s most important client—is the one who belongs by his daughter’s side. Toni sets out to break up his daughter and her supposed future son-in-law. He even finds an ally in Osman’s father, Mesut (after all, Franzi isn’t even a real Turkish woman), but Mesut’s attempt to solve the problem with laxatives fails miserably, as expected. Toni does manage to get Osman to help out at a construction site for Toni’s company. There, he torments him with unpleasant jobs. In doing so, he completely forgets that his company is currently in trouble and is actually on the verge of bankruptcy. He doesn’t even hesitate to use village policeman Bene to make discreet inquiries about Osman, hoping to use what he learns to discredit him in his daughter’s eyes. In the end, Toni achieves his goal, and the two split up. But this throws the household into complete disarray, and both his wife and daughter turn against him. Toni realizes he has made a huge mistake and does everything he can to bring Osman and his daughter back together. It only becomes clear to him later that, without realizing it, he has also saved his company.