Sisters Apart

Jul 15, 2021

1h 34m

★ 5.9

Overview

Rojda, a native of Iraqi Kurdistan and a soldier in the German army, travels to a refugee camp in Greece where she manages to meet her mother, who has bad news about her sister Dilan.

Genres

Drama

War

Production Companies

Pallas Film

The Match Factory

View Master Films

ZDF

ERT

ARTE

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Cast

Rojda Xani

Almila Bağrıaçık

Berivan

Zübeyde Bulut

Ferhat Xani

Maryam Boubani

Alex Breidmeier

Christoph Letkowski

Dilan

Gonca de Haas

Fuhrmann

Niels-Bruno Schmidt

Officer Dimitri

Yiannis Niarros

Tom

Lucas Prisor

Officer Costas

Kostas Bazas

Rozerin Mafakhery

Ceylan Bulus

Navdil Abdulquader

Jyana Karami

Berfin Suleiman

Rosgar Abubakr

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