Zimtstern und Halbmond

Dec 17, 2010

★ 5.0

Overview

German ship captain Gottfried Hinrichs reluctantly retires to his Bavarian home, hoping to find comfort when his daughter Barbara moves back home, convenient now she has become a commercial pilot. So he dishes out the usual objections when she tells to have found her mate, while ma Lisbeth tries to shush. When the lovers turn up for Christmas Eve, a culture shock follows, for her dream prince is Palestinian unemployed would be-pilot Kamal Abu Khalil, and neither 'liberal' parent extends effective tolerance to Islamic in-potential laws. Ultimately Gottfried is worn down, but then the incompatible religious marriage norms seem to break up the couple itself. It gets even worse when his parents found out and fly in, while she feels neglected as Kemal starts an electronic muezzin Internet firm with a friend.

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Romance

TV Movie

Production Companies

Claussen+Wöbke Filmproduktion

ARD

ARD Degeto

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Cast

Gottfried Hinrichs

Robert Atzorn

Lisbeth Hinrichs

Gundi Ellert

Barbara Hinichs

Lisa Maria Potthoff

Kamal Abu Khalil

Omar El-Saeidi

Pfarrer Josef

Sigi Zimmerschied

Yusuf

David A. Hamade

Abu Kamal

Ramin Yazdani

Um Kamal

Mouna Sabbagh

Bashar

Manuel Santiago Renken

Amina

Ela Elisabeth Beken

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