Fernes Land

Fernes Land

★ 8.0IMDb Score
Released:2011-01-20
Genre:Drama
Duration:88 min
Country:
Director:Kanwal Sethi
Actors:Christoph Franken, Atta Yaqub, Karina Plachetka, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Barbara Schnitzler
Production:MDR

Overview:

The pakistani hairdresser, Haroon, has immigrated illegally to Germany, the German in- surance broker, Mark, dreams of emigrating. The consequences of a car accident throw these two entirely different people together for one night. At the end of an odyssey through the alien world of illegality, they both discover that something bonds them: a desire to be far away...

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