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Strange Daughter

2017
1h 46m
Drama
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Cast

Elisa Schlott (Lena)Hassan Akkouch (Farid)Heike Makatsch (Hannah)Anna Bullard (Jollie)Myriam Abbas (Ellaha)Husam Chadat (Abbas)Mohamed Issa (Jamal)Rainer Furch (Chef von Hannah)Juri Winkler (Mirko)Mia Kasalo (Yasemin)

Director

Stephan Lacant

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Synopsis

Lena (17) meets 19-year-old Farid, a young Muslim. She has a clear-cut attitude towards his culture and religion: utter rejection. Despite their differences - or perhaps because of them - they fall in love. When Lena unexpectedly gets pregnant the two of them must make a pledge to each other and their child. Hannah, Lena's mother, sees red, realizing this means her daughter will be expected to marry a Muslim man - unfathomable both to her and to Farid's family. A couple destined to be together stuck between worlds, traditions, religion, contradictions and prejudices.

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