Directed by:
Fatih AkinCinematography:
Rainer KlausmannCast:
Adam Bousdoukos, Moritz Bleibtreu, Pheline Roggan, Anna Bederke, Birol Ünel, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Dorka Gryllus, Lucas Gregorowicz, Catrin Striebeck (more)VOD (1)
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Young German-Greek restaurant owner Zinos is down on his luck. His girlfriend Nadine has moved to Shanghai, his Soul Kitchen customers are boycotting the new gourmet chef, and he's having back trouble! Things start looking up when the hip crowd embraces his revamped culinary concept, but that doesn't mend Zinos' broken heart. He decides to fly to China for Nadine, leaving the restaurant in the hands of his unreliable ex-con brother Illias. Both decisions turn out disastrous: Illias gambles away the restaurant to a shady real estate agent and Nadine has found a new lover! But brothers Zinos and Illias might still have one last chance to get Soul Kitchen back if they can stop arguing and work together as a team. (official distributor synopsis)
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If this film wanted to demonstrate how multicultural Berlin society is, then French or British films are much more convincing in this regard - the recent past of colonial empires cannot be denied in this respect... However, I think that Soul Kitchen faithfully shows Berliners as a culturally and socially diverse community that is far from the idea of Prussians or generally cold and purposeful Germans. On the other hand, the peripeteia of running a restaurant in an industrial district and the life mishaps of its owner did not particularly impress me, unlike the festival jury in Venice, and from my perspective, they did not seem substantial enough to justify the cult status of this, in my opinion, only average comedy. Overall impression: 55%.
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