Soul Kitchen

Pub owner Zinos is plagued by bad luck: first his girlfriend Nadine moves to Shanghai for a new job, then he suffers a slipped disc. When Zinos (Adam Bousdoukos) hires the eccentric top chef Shayn (Birol Ünel) in his time of need, the already few regulars suddenly stop coming. And as if that wasn't enough, his slightly criminal brother Illias (Moritz Bleibtreu) turns up and asks him for help. While Zinos is still thinking about how to get rid of the store so that he can follow Nadine (Pheline Roggan) to China, the music and the unusual menu are attracting more and more trendy customers. The Soul Kitchen is rocking and booming like never before. But then events take a turn for the worse. "I became a massive fan of Fatih Akin after Head-On (2004) and even more so after his transcendent film Edge of Heaven (2007). Akin, lighten things up here with the trials and tribulations of a struggling restaurant known as Soul Kitchen. The film explores a multicultural Europe, where people from various backgrounds pursue their destinies and cross paths in unlikely coincidences. I love that the film highlights the interconnectedness of Europe and is presented casually and lightheartedly, making it a fact of modern life rather than a subject for deep contemplation." (Malik Isasis - Sooner Curator "I admire Fatih Akin's versatile talent for handling different genres so brilliantly. Soul Kitchen is a great comedy, wild and whimsical, full of razor-sharp dialog." (Sooner curator Tamara Denić) "The Hamburg classic! The lightness, the humor, the legendary guest appearances. This film didn't win the Special Jury Prize in Venice for nothing - it's simply great fun." (Sooner curator Justina Jürgensen)

Keywords

• David di Donatello
• family
• food
• Food, cooking and kitchen
• friendship
• prison
• relationship

Actors

• Moritz Bleibtreu
• Birol Ünel
• Pheline Roggan
• Dorka Gryllus
• Adam Bousdoukos
• Wotan Wilke Möhring
• Anna Bederke

Director

• Fatih Akin