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Fernes Land

Fernes Land

2011•1h 28m•8.0/10
Drama

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8.0/10(1)

The pakistani hairdresser, Haroon, has immigrated illegally to Germany, the German in- surance broker, Mark, dreams of emigrating. The consequences of a car accident throw these two entirely different people together for one night. At the end of an odyssey through the alien world of illegality, they both discover that something bonds them: a desire to be far away...

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Production

MDR

Language

DE

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Christoph Franken

Christoph Franken

Mark

Atta Yaqub

Atta Yaqub

Haroon

Karina Plachetka

Karina Plachetka

Nina

Kulbhushan Kharbanda

Kulbhushan Kharbanda

Pamma

Barbara Schnitzler

Barbara Schnitzler

Marks Mutter

Pasha Khan

Ahmad

Rajendra Gupta

Rajendra Gupta

Babak

Pasha Bocarie

Pasha Bocarie

Ahmed

Mario Rohn

Bundespolizist

Olaf Hais

Wachmann

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