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Section: Austrian Trip

Your Beauty Is Worth Nothing (2012) 14

Austria | 2012 | 85 min.

Half-Kurd half-Turkish Veyse fled from Turkey to Austria with his family and has only been in Vienna for a few months. He’s stressed because his lack of German makes him an outsider and his older brother Mazlum has run away from home. Fortunately, he’s found distraction in Ana, a girl in his class. For a poetry assignment in class he decides to translate his favorite Turkish poem into German, hoping to impress Ana. But when the police show up at the family’s home due to Mazlum, the whole family is in danger of being deported.

CountryAustria
Year2012
Duration85 min
Rating14
LanguageGerman, Serbo-Croatian, Turkis
SubtitleCzech, English
Directed by Hüseyin Tabak
Screenplay Hüseyin Tabak
Director of Photography Lukas Gnaiger
Music Judit Varga
Edited by Christoph Loidl
Contact Dor Film

Biography

Screenwriter and director of Kurdish origin. He studied at the Vienna Film Academy. He debuted with his feature-length graduation drama Your Beauty is Worth Nothing (Deine Schönheit ist nichts wert, 2012), then directed the family film A Horse on the Balcony (Das Pferd auf dem Balkon, 2012).

Romance, Growing Up, Children with parents, Human Rights, Social Justice, Immigrants, Children with parents

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