Soul kitchen
By: the Match Factory ; Corazón International ; Pyramide Productions ; in Koproduktion mit dem NDR ; in Zusammenarbeit mit Dorje Film ; Produzenten, Klaus Maeck, Fatih Akin ; Drehbuch, Fatih Akin, Adam Bousdoukos ; Regie, Fatih Akin
Contributors: Bleibtreu, Moritz, 1971- actor; Roggan, Pheline, 1981- actor; Bederke, Anna, 1981- actor; Ünel, Birol, 1961- actor; Gryllus, Dorka, 1972- actor; Mohring, Wotan Wilke, 1967- actor; Gregorowicz, Lucas, actor; Gökgöl, Demir, actor; Hosemann, Marc, 1970- actor; Striebeck, Catrin, actor; Yücel, Uğur, actor; Kier, Udo, actor; Bleibtreu, Monica, 1944- actor; Klausmann, Rainer, 1949- cinematographer; Bird, Andrew, 1956- film editor; Corazón International (Firm); Pyramide Productions (Firm); Norddeutscher Rundfunk; Dorje Film (Firm); Match Factory (Firm); IFC Films
Edition: Anamorphic widescreen.
Published: 2010
Language: ger
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 100
Subjects: Hermanos; Cooks; Man-woman relationships; Brothers; Ex-convicts; Teatro; Drama; Restaurantes; German Language Films; Restaurants
Description: "Soul Kitchen" is Zinos Kazantsakis's humdrum restaurant in a working-class neighborhood of Hamburg. The food is mostly frozen, unceremoniously zapped in the microwave, or thrown into a vat of bubbling grease. He loves his restaurant and his girlfriend Nadine, even after she leaves him for an assignment in China. Wanting to liven up the restaurant, Zinos hires an out-of-work three-star chef, lets his ex-con brother Ilias spin records, and seeks out new clientele. Soon Soul Kitchen is reborn as Hamburg's newest hot spot. On a whim, Zinos flies to China to rekindle his relationship with Nadine leaving his brother in charge. There is also a slipped disc, a hard-drinking, chain-smoking waitress, a scheming real-estate developer, a Turkish "physio-healer," and a high stakes poker game in the mix. But the film is not about food or love; it's about family, life and human relationships, with a lingering nostalgia for a time when eating out implied getting dead drunk, stuffing one's face with cholesterol and kissing across the table.
Notes: Originally produced as a German motion picture in 2009.

Special features: Trailer (2 min.); Making of "Soul Kitchen" [featurette] (35 min.); IFC previews (7 min.).

Bildgestaltung [director of photography] Rainer Klausmann ; schnitt [editor], Andrew Bird ; kostümbild [costume designer], Katrin Aschendorf ; music supervisor, Klaus Maeck, Pia Hoffmann.

Adam Bousdoukos, Moritz Bleibtreu, Pheline Roggan, Anna Bederke, Birol Ünel, Dorka Gryllus, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Lucas Gregorowicz, Demir Gokgol, Cem Akin, Marc Hosemann, Catrin Striebeck, Uğur Yücel, Udo Kier, Monica Bleibtreu.

MPAA Rating: Not rated.

DVD ; NTSC, region 1 ; Dolby Digital 5.1 ; enhanced for widescreen TVs.

In German with optional subtitles in English, English SDH and Spanish.
Table of contents: title: The Soul Kitchen; title: Dinner with the family; title: Have you escaped?; title: Go see Anna; title: The new chef; title: Slow night; title: Health inspection; title: Wanna go to a party?; title: Another round; title: Brand new place; title: Name your price; title: Private function; title: Honduran tree bark; title: Surprise on the way to Shanghai; title: Crashing the funeral; title: Who's looking after the restaurant?; title: Kemal the bone crusher; title: 2000,015 Euros; title: No rent for Christmas; title: End credits.