Love, Deutschmarks and Death

Love, Deutschmarks and Death is a documentary by director Cem Kaya about the independent, and as of yet, unknown music of emigrated Turkish guest workers and their grandchildren in Germany.

The German Federal Republic’s 1961 recruitment agreement with Turkey not only brought workers, but also their music. The stories of the band Derdiyoklar, Radio Yılmaz, protest rocker Cem Karaca’s German exile, and many more are testament to the unique liveliness of Turkish music in Germany. In a musical and essayistic form, Cem Kaya shares insights into the unique liveliness of this forgotten subculture.

Cem Kaya is a filmmaker that uses extensive found footage and archive material of various kinds in his work. He assembles clips from feature films, commercials, tv documentaries and private footage into witty collages. This colourful mix of material and his own documentary observations are the ingredients for his extremely insightful, sometimes bizarre and often hilarious docu-essays.

Ticket: 7.50€

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