Exit Marrakech
Exit Marrakech- Director
- Caroline Link
- Country
- Germany
- Year
- 2013
- Genre
- Drama, Fiction
- Scriptwriters
- Caroline Link
- Cast
- Ulrich Tukur, Samuel Schneider, Hafsia Herzi, Marie-Lou Sellem, Josef Bierbichler
- Production
- desert flower filmproduktion
Storyline
When 17-year-old Ben visits his father Heinrich in Marrakech, it is the start of an adventurous journey through a foreign country with a picturesque charm and a rough beauty where everything appears possible, including whether father and son will lose each other for good or find one another again.
Heinrich, a celebrated theater director, is taking part in an international festival in Morocco, but with father and son being unused to such proximity, all their old grievances and conflicts resurface, in addition to which, they both inflict new wounds on one another.
Whilst the two of them drift further and further apart, Ben opens himself up increasingly more to the foreign country and tries to find his own way in this unknown world, far from his father's luxury hotel. He falls in love with the young Karima, escapes with her to her distant home and encounters an archaic society in which the highest value is placed on family honor.
In EXIT MARRAKECH the colorful life in the narrow streets, the picturesque charm of the oases, the rough beauty of the desert and the breathtaking Atlas Mountains are more than just a fascinating backdrop for a gripping and intense piece of cinema, they are also signposts on the protagonists' emotional maps.
Festivals & Academy awards and others
Toronto International Film Festival 2013
Braunschweig International Film Festival 2013
Releases
Spain (5 of September 2014)
Germany (24 of October 2013)
Call for proposals Development
Year 2011
Call number 25/2010
MEDIA support to: Desert Flower Filmproduktion
Call for proposals Distribution Automatic
Year 2013
Call number 07/2012
Media support 38.780,00€
Austria: CONSTANTIN FILM-HOLDING GMBH
Distribution:
Studiocanal (Germany)
