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The lives of German-Turkish immigrants are interwoven in this critically acclaimed film about love, loss, and redemption and answer this question:

Characters: Ali and Nejat Aksu (Father and son); Yeter and Ayten Özturk (Mother and daughter-Ayten also uses the pseudonym Gül Krokmaz); Susanne and Lotte Staub (Mother and daughter).

Places: Germany (Bremen and Hamburg); Turkey (Istanbul and Trabzon) respond to the following in no less than 40 words each as best you can. You don't need a "right" answer. You just need to show you're thinking from wherever you are at this time. Sometimes, you may not quite get my question.

Question 1. What was the most striking scene in the film for you and why?

Question 2. Did you identify with any of the characters? If so, with whom? If not, why not do you think? Be open. Be honest. There's no moral obligation here. Only in examining what we initially "feel" can we get to understanding why we feel that and if/how it might change.

Question 3. Would you describe any of the characters in the film as "cosmopolitan"? Explain why or why not.

Question 4. The film is made up of little family stories, father-son and mother-daughter relationships. But the constellations shift over the course of the film. First of all, very concretely, how do they shift? What changes occur? And secondly, how does what happens comment on standard understandings of what a family is? Finally, if we extrapolate out to the national family, what do the changes say about nationality/migration?

Question 5. In the early 1970s, the Swiss (German-speaking) author Max Frisch wrote about immigrants to Germany: "We asked for workers. People came." Six simple words! They tell us a lot, though, about how even legal immigrants are often seen and interpellated. 1 How do you interpret these six words? (I know you don't have the complete context, but we'll talk about that in class. For now, just think about it given what you do know.)