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  • About the film
  • Plot summary
  • Swedish censorship / rating
  • Technical specifications
  • Comments
  • Original work
  • Production location
  • Release dates
  • Soundtrack listing
  • Awards
  • Related films
  • Subjects
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Original title Broken Mussels
Film type Feature
Category Fiction
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Plot summary

Their ultimate dream is a new life in Germany. Kurdish cousins Hakim and Faysal have been sent away from their village to Istanbul to earn money for their families. Together with a young...

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Plot summary

Their ultimate dream is a new life in Germany. Kurdish cousins Hakim and Faysal have been sent away from their village to Istanbul to earn money for their families. Together with a young Bosnian girl, Elma, they try to find a way to make it to the promised land.

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The information given here refers to film material in the Swedish Film Institute’s archive. Access to the archive’s stock is given on request, for research, other film archives and rights’ holders. For enquiries please contact filmarkivet@filminstitutet.se

Element type Video tape digital
Carrier type HDCAM SR


Holdings Scripts

Script type Inspelningsmanus
Script title Broken mussels. 6th draft.
Extent 74 s.
Language English


Script type Dialoglista
Script title Kirik midyeler. 05.10.2010 desifre.
Extent 60 s. + för- och eftertext samt musiklista.
Language English


Script type Dialoglista
Script title Broken mussels
Extent 37 s.
Language English


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