Alltag / Everyday
Wednesday, August 8, 2012 at 09:48AM 
Alltag / Everyday
2002, 90 minutes
Directed by Neco Çelik
Written by Neco Çelik and Nadya Derado
Story by Florian Panzner, Neelesha BaVora, Kida Ramadan and Erhan Emre
Cinematography by Peter Steuger
Music by Enis Rotthoff
Produced by TeamWorx/BR
Featuring Erhan Emre, Andreas Guenther, Neelesha BaVora, Florian Panzer
Tickets: $8 (Adults), $5 (Students/Members/Seniors)
Alltag (Everyday) tells the story of a tough neighborhood nicknamed "Little Istanbul" for its large Turkish immigrant population in Kreuzberg, Berlin. Veit manages a small laundromat in the neighborhood. He has a sister who helps him out financially, a drug-addicted brother, a mentally-ill mother, and a beautiful Turkish neighbor, Aliyah, who is engaged to a Turkish man. A deadly competition develops between Veit and Aliyah's fiancé, culminating in a brutal fight on a subway platform. According to Richard Bernstein of The New York Times, "Mr. Çelik is not interested in a storybook ethnic conflict. His film is not a German 'Mississippi Marsala,' or a 'Romeo and Juliet,' in which it is the ethnic difference itself that creates either the comedy or the tragedy. In 'Alltag' there is only one culture, the desperation-tinged youth culture of Kreuzberg itself, and while that may not exactly correspond to real life, it is Kreuzberg's separateness from the rest of Germany, and not the separateness of those who live within the district, that Mr. Celik wanted to depict."
Festivals and Awards
| 2001 | Hofer Film Tage (Germany) |
Contact Info
Neco Çelik & Erhan Emre
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Reichenbergerstr. 30
10999 Berlin, Germany
Tel: 49 30 695 36316
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Neco Çelik
Neco Çelik was born in 1972 in Kreuzberg, Berlin. He received a degree in graphic design in 1993, and passed a qualification course on Social Pedagogics and Youth Work in 1999. A German citizen since 1992, he works as a social worker at Kreuzberger Youth and Culture Center.
Filmography:
1994 A Documentary on "Naunynritze"
1997 36 QM Stoff (Anti-Drug Spot)
1997 36 QM Stoff (Documentary)
1998 Hall of Blame (Short)
1998 Gettopump (Short)
1999 BerliNapoli (Documentary)
2000 Sitcom Teaser to Witches Cauldron
2002 Alltag/Everyday
2003 Urban Guerillas
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