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  • 2006
  • Koch Lorber Films
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2006
  • Koch Lorber Films
  • 1 h 30 m

Summary An elegantly shot, gripping drama of young Kurds and Turks relocated to Germany where they hope to escape the tribal violence and poverty of their homeland. Instead, they find themselves strangers in a strange land: inhabitants of a soulless society where prostitution, street violence and prejudice offer no respite from the past. (Film ...

  • 2006
  • Koch Lorber Films
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2006
  • Koch Lorber Films
  • 1 h 30 m

Fratricide

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Summary An elegantly shot, gripping drama of young Kurds and Turks relocated to Germany where they hope to escape the tribal violence and poverty of their homeland. Instead, they find themselves strangers in a strange land: inhabitants of a soulless society where prostitution, street violence and prejudice offer no respite from the past. (Film ...

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Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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89% Positive
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11% Mixed
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The film's opening dedication to Pasolini acknowledges Arslan's debt to Neorealism, but the gritty, documentary style is offset by a charming bit of chalkboard animation that helps lighten the mood considerably.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
80
Fratricide marks Arslan as one of Europe's hottest young talents, drawing simultaneously on the film traditions of America, Western Europe and the Middle East.
By Andrew O'Hehir FULL REVIEW
75
Nonprofessional actors and convincingly dingy details give Fratricide a harsh documentary quality, and its "Midnight Cowboy"-style ending is bitterly powerful. Devotees of seamy '70s cinema should give this little film a look.
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75
Shot with such grit that the lenses seem coated with grease, Fratricide offers a myopic impression of an unnamed German city, and that's probably the point, since so much of its territory and opportunities are sealed off from these immigrant characters.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW
70
A well-wrought, beautifully lensed but ultimately hopeless tale, Fratricide provides a less than optimistic allegory for the intractability of human conflicts: Even far away and decades later, old wars bring fresh miseries.
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63
While the boys' fates do seem a little too predestined, that may well be Arslan's intention. When you're idling in no man's land, it's all too easy to get uprooted.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
40
Every so often, Mr. Arslan cuts to Kurdistan, where a group of women wander the barren landscape, a Greek chorus gone astray in a film gone amiss.
By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Tarantula, Backup Media, Hessische Filmförderung, Luxembourg Film Fund, MFG Film, Rhône-Alpes Cinéma, Tarantula, Yilmaz Arslan Filmproduktion GmbH
Release Date Aug 23, 2006
Duration 1 h 30 m
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Awards

Locarno International Film Festival
• 4 Wins & 6 Nominations
Festival del Cinema Europeo
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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