Exit Marrakech
When 17-year-old Ben visits his father Heinrich in Marrakech, for him it is not the beginning of a fairy tal from the Arabian Nights. His surroundings are just as strange to him as his divorced his divorced father Heinrich, with whom he is to spend his summer holidays for the first time in a long time. Heinrich, a celebrated director, takes part in an international theater festival in Morocco. The unaccustomed closenes open old wounds in father and son and inflicts new injuries on both.
Even the question of whether Ben is experienced enough to deal with his diabetes properly is a frequent cause for dispute. While the two drift further and further apart, Ben opens up more and more to the foreign country and, far from his father's
luxury hotel, he finds his own way in the unfamiliar world. He falls in love young Karima, flees with her to her remote home village in the cool cedar forests of the cedar forests of the Atlas Mountains, where he encounters an archaic society in which family honor is the highest value. When Ben does not
for days, Heinrich sets out to find him, first reluctantly, then increasingly desperately desperate to find his missing son...
Producer: Peter Herrmann
Director and screenplay: Caroline Link
Camera: Bella Halben
Editing: Patricia Rommel
Music: Niki Reiser
Cast:
Samuel Schneider: Ben
Ulrich Tukur: Ben's father Heinrich
Hafsia Herzi: Karima
Marie-Lou Sellem: Ben's mother Lea
Josef Bierbichler: Rector
When 17-year-old Ben visits his father Heinrich in Marrakech, for him it is not the beginning of a fairy tal from the Arabian Nights. His surroundings are just as strange to him as his divorced his divorced father Heinrich, with whom he is to spend his summer holidays for the first time in a long time. Heinrich, a celebrated director, takes part in an international theater festival in Morocco. The unaccustomed closenes open old wounds in father and son and inflicts new injuries on both.
Even the question of whether Ben is experienced enough to deal with his diabetes properly is a frequent cause for dispute. While the two drift further and further apart, Ben opens up more and more to the foreign country and, far from his father's
luxury hotel, he finds his own way in the unfamiliar world. He falls in love young Karima, flees with her to her remote home village in the cool cedar forests of the cedar forests of the Atlas Mountains, where he encounters an archaic society in which family honor is the highest value. When Ben does not
for days, Heinrich sets out to find him, first reluctantly, then increasingly desperately desperate to find his missing son...
Producer: Peter Herrmann
Director and screenplay: Caroline Link
Camera: Bella Halben
Editing: Patricia Rommel
Music: Niki Reiser
Cast:
Samuel Schneider: Ben
Ulrich Tukur: Ben's father Heinrich
Hafsia Herzi: Karima
Marie-Lou Sellem: Ben's mother Lea
Josef Bierbichler: Rector
