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Soul Kitchen - Adam Bousdoukos, Moritz Bleibtreu, Pheline Roggan, Fatih Akin
Threat advisory: Elevated - Significant risk of entertaining activities
Movie propaganda
Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans...
Young restaurant owner Zinos (Adam Bousdoukos) is down on his luck. His girlfriend Nadine (Pheline Roggan) 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 (Moritz Bleibtreu). Both decisions turn out to be 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.
Theatrical propaganda posters
Target demographic movie keyword propaganda
- Film comedy Germany romance restaurant chef relationship China German brothers cook business development
Persons of interest
- Adam Bousdoukos .... Zinos Kazantsakis
- Moritz Bleibtreu .... Illias Kazantsakis
- Birol Ünel .... Shayn Weiss
- Anna Bederke .... Lucia Faust
- Pheline Roggan .... Nadine Krüger
- Lukas Gregorowicz .... Lutz
- Dorka Gryllus .... Anna Mondstein
- Wotan Wilke Möhring .... Thomas Neumann
- Demir Gökgöl .... Sokrates
- Monica Bleibtreu .... Nadine's Großmutter
- Marc Hosemann .... Ziege
- Cem Akin .... Milli
- Catrin Striebeck .... Frau Schuster vom Finanzamt
- Jan Fedder .... Herr Meyer vom Gesundheitsamt
- Julia Wachsmann .... Tanja
- Simon Goerts .... Tschako
- Maverick Queck .... Han
- Markus Imboden .... Nadine's Vater
- Gudrun Egner .... Nadine's Mutter
- Peter Jordan .... Notar
- Wolfgang Schumacher .... Arzt
- Udo Kier ... Herr Jung
- Fatih Akin .... Screenwriter
- Adam Bousdoukos .... Screenwriter
- Fatih Akin .... Director
Cinematic intelligence sources
- Soul Kitchen official movie sites:
- Australia
- International
- Soul Kitchen film production notes
- Soul Kitchen movie trailers:
- Awards and film festivals:
- German Film Festival (Australia) 2009: Screening
- NB: German language dialogue with English language subtitles
- Studios and distributors:
Intelligence analyst
Special Agent Matti
Theatrical report
You don't have to be German to be a Nazi who wants to take over the world but it sure helps. The German language at volume is particularly good for megalomaniacs to proclaim their programme for world domination. Even a discussion about the best way to cook sauerkraut sounds like the Nuremberg rallies. This has nothing to do with Soul Kitchen - there are no Nazis, no attempts at invading Poland - it's just an observation about German-language movies.
Meanwhile, this film is about semi-young people having adventures of the kind that grown-ups try to avoid: sex, loud music, parties, travel, romance, fighting, spur-of-the-moment decisions. There's nothing particularly German about it - other than the talking - so it has broad appeal, for those who can read the subtitles. This is a small film about a small-businessman and his small family. Enjoyable.
The comedy, Germany, romance movie Soul Kitchen is directed by Fatih Akin and stars Adam Bousdoukos, Moritz Bleibtreu, Pheline Roggan.
Media intelligence (DVD)
- Languages:German
- Special features:
- Deleted scenes
- Trailers: Theatrical
- Subtitles: English
Government security censorship classification
MA 15+ (Strong sex scene)
Surveillance time
96 minutes (1:36 hours)
Not for public release in Australia before date
Film: 6 May 2010
Disc: 10 November 2010
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