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Evet, I Do (Evet, ich will!, 2008) Director: Sinan Akkus Presentation: The biggest minority in Germany comes from Turkey, a land between East Europe and the Middle East with cultural differences as huge as its territory. What could happen when religion and ideologies cross its paths with love in a central European country? Eurochannel invites you to find the answer in Evet, I Do. Cultural boundaries take place in this project -Sinan Akkus's first full length film. This is a vibrant and smart comedy about gay and straight couples in their struggle for love against multicultural boundaries. Each couple will have to be ingenious and brave enough to break with family traditions and get what they want: getting married with their loved one. Short films award winning director Sinan Akkus develops this comedy with perfect timing between four couples in pre-wedding confusion in a wedding shop. There, stories about religion and cultural differences make the protagonists give their best to cope with Kurdish and radical Islamic backgrounds in their families. Synopsis: There are four love stories, and attempts at marriage, in Evet, I Do. The least problematic seems to be about a man who is sent from Turkey by his relatives. He has to marry a Turkish German woman in order to stay in Germany, make money, and send the money back to his family. He is willing to try this, despite actually being in love with a girl in his native village. However, when the only bride the matchmakers can find close to his own age turns out to be fat, he rejects her. Dirk (Oliver Korittke) is German, a son of secular parents who have never married. He is in love with a Turkish woman he met at University. He has a different situation: the girls' father not only insists that Dirk convert to Islam, but that he and his parents jump through a number of hilarious hoops to become worthy of the bride. Trivia: • The director Sinan Akkus won in 2001 the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Award for the Sevda heißt Liebe |
