RABIYE KURNAZ GEGEN GEORGE W. BUSH
RABIYE KURNAZ VS. GEORGE W. BUSH


SYNOPSIS
The battle for the release of her son Murat from Guantanamo catapults Turkish housewife Rabiye Kurnaz from her terraced house in Bremen straight into world politics and all the way to the Supreme Court in Washington. At her side is human rights lawyer Bernhard Docke - the reserved, level-headed lawyer and the temperamental Turkish mother with a wicked sense of humour – now fighting side-by-side to get Murat out.

DIRECTORAndreas Dresen
YEAR2022
STATUScompleted
FESTIVALS AWARDSBerlinale Competition 2022
Silver Bear - Best Leading Performance
Silver Bear - Best Screenplay
Gilde Film Award - Best Film Competition

 
CASTMeltem Kaptan (Rabiye)
Alexander Scheer (Bernhard)
Charly Hübner
Nazmi Kirik
Sevda Polat
Ali-Emre Sahin
Mert Dincer
Lemi Oğul Tan Ungan
Devrim Deniz Aslan
Abdullah Emre Öztürk
Şafak Şengül
Jeanette Spassova
Abak Safaei-Rad
Alexander Hörbe
special guest Tim Williams

 
CO PRODUCTION WITHPandora Film Produktion
in co-production with
Iskremas Filmproduktion
Cinéma Defacto (FR)
and
Norddeutscher Rundfunk
Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg
Bayerischer Rundfunk
Radio Bremen
and
ndr/ ARTE
ARTE France Cinéma
SUPPORTED BYFilm- und Medienstiftung NRW
Deutscher Filmförderfonds
BKM
Filmförderungsanstalt
Medienboard
Nordmedia
CNC
WORLD SALESThe Match Factory
GERMAN DISTRIBUTORPandora Film Verleih

 
LENGTH119 min.
FORMATDCP 2K
1:2.39 scope
colour
5.1. sound
SHOOTING LOCATIONBremen & NRW (Germany)
Washington DC (USA) & Ankara (Turkey)
ORIGINAL LANGUAGEGerman with Turkish and English

 
PRODUCERSClaudia Steffen & Christoph Friedel (producers)
Andreas Dresen & Andreas Leusink (co-producers)
Tom Decourt (co-producer)
/////
Christian Granderath (NDR)
Cooky Ziesche (rbb)
Carlos Gerstenhauer (BR)
Annette Strelow (Radio Bremen)
Andreas Schreitmüller (ARTE)
Olivier Père & Rémy Burah (ARTE France Cinéma)
(commissioning editors)
WRITERSLaila Stieler
CASTINGKaren Wendland
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHYAndreas Höfer
PRODUCTION MANAGEMENTFee Buck (line producer)
EDITINGJörg Hauschild
MUSICJohannes Repka
Cenk Erdoğan
SOUNDPeter Schmidt
Oswald Schwander
Ralf Krause
ART DIRECTIONSusanne Hopf
COSTUMESBirgitt Kilian
MAKE UP HAIRGrit Kosse
Uta Spikermann

 
SOUNDTRACK AVAILABLEn/s
DVD VIDEO AVAILABLEn/s
LINKShttps://rabiye.film

Stills

rabiye_artwork_kinoplakat_din-a4(3).jpgrabiye_stills_01-foto_andreas_hoefer-copyright_pandora_film.jpgrabiye_stills_02-foto_luna_zscharnt-copyright_pandora_film.jpgrabiye_stills_03-foto_luna_zscharnt-copyright_pandora_film.jpgrabiye_stills_04-foto_luna_zscharnt-copyright_pandora_film.jpgrabiye_stills_05-foto_luna_zscharnt-copyright_pandora_film.jpg