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Of Fathers and Sons - Die Kinder des Kalifats

By: Material type: FilmPublisher number: IN 4482Language: German Subtitle language: German | Spanish | Portuguese | English | French | Russian Publication details: Berlin : Goethe Institut e.v, 2019.Description: Colour, 99 min. 12cm, 1xDVDOther title:
  • Of Fathers and Sons – Children of the Caliphate [EN]
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • DF2019/01
Production credits:
  • Production: Basis Berlin Ko-Production: Ventana, Cinema Group und SWR, RBB , Arte, Impact Partners
Summary: Abu Osamas ganzer Stolz sind seine Söhne, die in nicht allzu ferner Zukunft auch im Djihad gegen die syrischen Machthaber kämpfen sollen. Zwei seiner acht Jungs besuchen schon das Scharia-Camp, hier bekommen si emit 12 Jahren Koran-Unterricht ebenso wie Militär-Training. Von einer Kindheit im Kalifat, dicht an den Frontlinien, erzählt Talal Derkis Dokumentarfilm. Es gelang dem Regisseur, das Vertrauen einer Radikal islamischen Familie zu gewinnen und zwei Jahre mit ihnen zu leben.Summary: For Of Fathers and Sons, the Syrian director Talal Derki returned from Berlin to his home country, gained the trust of the Islamist leader Abu Osama, and then spent more than two years documenting the everyday life of the man's family, especially that of his two sons, Ayman (12) and Osama (13). A childhood between war games, combat training and indoctrination, but not without tender moments of fatherly love: a film about the transmission of extremism of all forms.
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Production: Basis Berlin
Ko-Production: Ventana, Cinema Group und SWR, RBB , Arte, Impact Partners

Abu Osamas ganzer Stolz sind seine Söhne, die in nicht allzu ferner Zukunft auch im Djihad gegen die syrischen Machthaber kämpfen sollen. Zwei seiner acht Jungs besuchen schon das Scharia-Camp, hier bekommen si emit 12 Jahren Koran-Unterricht ebenso wie Militär-Training. Von einer Kindheit im Kalifat, dicht an den Frontlinien, erzählt Talal Derkis Dokumentarfilm. Es gelang dem Regisseur, das Vertrauen einer Radikal islamischen Familie zu gewinnen und zwei Jahre mit ihnen zu leben.

For Of Fathers and Sons, the Syrian director Talal Derki returned from Berlin to his home country, gained the trust of the Islamist leader Abu Osama, and then spent more than two years documenting the everyday life of the man's family, especially that of his two sons, Ayman (12) and Osama (13). A childhood between war games, combat training and indoctrination, but not without tender moments of fatherly love: a film about the transmission of extremism of all forms.

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