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Saless ventures a controversial parallel between the discrimination of the Jewish population from 1933 onward and the treatment of foreigners by most of society during the recession.
Recession, unemployment, racism: a bleak cinematic essay. Marianne leaves her family and moves to West Berlin, but still writes to her husband. While he carries on as before, she meets Umran, an unemployed Turkish architect who has a skeptical view of West Germany. Marianne starts to have doubts about the bourgeois life she’d been living and begins to despair at the coldness of the people in her country.
The event on July 2 at the Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism is free of charge. In addition to the film screening of ADDRESSEE UNKNOWN, there will be an extensive FilmTalk.
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After the film: FilmTalk with Behrang Samsami and Daniel Wiegand
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After the film: Film talk with Behrang Samsami and Daniel Asadi Faezi
Filmmuseum
Meet the director
Sohrab Shahid Saless
Screenwriter and filmmaker Sohrab Shahid Saless (1944-1998) is considered one of the driving forces behind the “New Iranian Wave”. He left Iran in 1974 after two award-winning feature films and continued his work in exile in Germany. Here he made 13 feature and documentary films in which he addressed the repressed confrontation with the Nazi era, anti-Semitism and racism.