Serpil Turhan — Actor (2)
A Fine Day (2001) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Der schöne Tag
director: 托马斯·阿斯兰 actor: Serpil Turhan / Bilge Bingül
other title: 游荡柏林 / Der schöne Tag
A Fine Day is, after the films Geschwister and Dealer, the third part in a trilogy about the living conditions of Turkish youth growing up in Germany.
Deniz is 21-years-old, lives in Berlin, works as a dubbing speaker and wants to become an actress. A Fine Day describes a long, labyrinth-like day in the life of Deniz. A day in which she experiences everything that takes place around her with a feverish intensity. The separation from her boyfriend Jan, her relationship to her family, her work, the promise of a new friendship and summer in the city.
A Fine Day is the story of a young woman's search for happiness, her feelings and her ideas about love.
Brothers and Sisters (1997) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Geschwister - Kardesler
director: 托马斯·阿斯兰 actor: Tamer Yiğit / Kool Savas
other title: 兄弟姐妹 / Geschwister - Kardesler
Thomas Arslan's second feature film and part of his Berlin-trilogy is a slow-paced milieu study of German-Turkish youth in Berlin-Kreuzberg. The film depicts the every day life, domestic conflicts, dreams and disappointments of three siblings and their aimless, meandering strolls through the Kreuzberg district. The family itself encapsulates the culture clash that is at the centre of many German-Turkish films. In Arslan's film, the mother is German, the father is Turkish and the children have to make up their own minds about their cultural allegiances. Seventeen-year-old Leyla tries to escape from her family by spending most of her time with her best friend Sevim. Her twenty-year-old brother, Erol, has chosen Turkish citizenship and, consequently, has to do military service in Turkey. His mother objects but Erol finds the prospect of continued unemployment and mounting debts, which he cannot repay, in Berlin far more threatening than the prospect of military service in Turkey and leaves. Eighteen-year-old Ahmed is the is about to do his 'Abitur' (final exams at secondary school) and, despite being the most 'assimilated' of the three siblings, finds the experience of living in between two cultures difficult.