Shahada (film)
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Shahada is a 2010 German drama film
directed by Burhan Qurbani
. It was nominated for the Golden Bear
at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival
. The film narrates the fates of three German-born Muslims in Berlin that collide as they struggle to find middle ground between faith and modern life in contemporary Western society.
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
directed by Burhan Qurbani
Burhan Qurbani
Burhan Qurbani is an Afghan-German film director whose film Shahada was screened at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival. He was born in 1980 in Germany from Ismaeli Hazara Parents...
. It was nominated for the Golden Bear
Golden Bear
According to legend, the Golden Bear was a large golden Ursus arctos. Members of the Ursus arctos species can reach masses of . The Grizzly Bear and the Kodiak Bear are North American subspecies of the Brown Bear....
at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival
60th Berlin International Film Festival
The 60th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from February 11 to February 21, 2010, with Werner Herzog as President of the Jury. The opening film of the festival was Chinese director Wang Quan'an's romantic drama Apart Together, in competition, while the closing film is Japanese...
. The film narrates the fates of three German-born Muslims in Berlin that collide as they struggle to find middle ground between faith and modern life in contemporary Western society.
Cast
- Carlo LjubekCarlo LjubekCarlo Ljubek is a German actor.- Life :Carlo Ljubek was born as a son of Croatian migrants in Bocholt, Germany. He graduated after his actor's training 2002 in Munich, Germany at the Otto-Falckenberg-School...
as Ismail - Jeremias Acheampong as Sammi
- Maryam Zaree as Maryam
- Sergej MoyaSergej MoyaSergej Moya is a German actor. He won the Undine Award for Best Young Leading Actor in the 2005 film Keller – Teenage Wasteland.Moya started his career during his early teens, in the beginning of the 21st century....
as Daniel - Marija Škaričić as Leyla
- Vivian Kanner as Ärztin
- Anne Ratte-Polle as Sarah
- Alina Manoukian as Arzu
- Nora Rim Abdel-Maksoud as Renan
- Yolette Thomas as Amira
- Ali Murtaza as Ali
- Vedat Erincin as Vedat
- Julia Graf
- Jacob Jensen as Türsteher
- Jürgen Nafti as Markthallenbesitzer
- Niklas Gerroldt