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Sasha

Country: Germany, Language: German, 102 mins

Original Title

Sasa
  • Director: Dennis Todorovic
  • Writer: Dennis Todorovic
  • Producer: Ewa Borowski

CGiii Comment

Tradition and ambition mixed with cultural identity in a foreign environment - handled with great care.

Fine work indeed.


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The(ir) Blurb...

While Sasha's mother is dreaming of her son's great career as a pianist, Sasha is left speechless for other reasons: his beloved piano teacher Mr. Weber tells him, he is leaving town forever. Sasha is heartbroken, and the only person in whom he can confide his feelings, is his best friend, Jiao. As a son of an Ex-Yugoslav family even in Germany one rarely lives outside the closet, and Sasha is grateful that his homophobic father believes Jiao is his girlfriend. But what begins as a useful lie becomes a large and complicated one, when Sasha's younger brother, begins an affair with Jiao. All lies get exposed and what appears to be a catastrophe is in fact the revelation of new possibilities in the lives of Sasha's family.

Cast & Characters

Tim Bergmann as Gebhard Weber;
Rolf Berg as Sammy;
Predrag Bjelac as Vlado;
Ozgur Cebe as Gem-semann;
Ljubisa Gruicic as Pero;
Yvonne Yung Hee as Jiao;
Sascha Kekez as Sasha;
Arno Kempf as Peter;
Jasin Mjumjunov as Boki;
Jasin Mjumjunow as Boki;
Petra Nadolny as Frau Strattmann;
Klaus Nierhoff as Barmann;
Manuel Pfoh as Peer;
Stefan Preiss as Herr Meyer;
Zeljka Preksavec as Stanka