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Drama 92 min
Rotten Tomatoes90%Metacritic71IMDb
In a small Northern German town, a dishonourably discharged Afghanistan veteran is offered a job as a deliveryman by an alcoholic Turkish entrepreneur, through which the former meets the latter's gorgeous wife.
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All we know about "Thomas" (Benno Fürmann) is that he is lucky to be alive and that he was dishonourably discharged from the army after something went wrong in Afghanistan. Now, he is living in an house left to him by his mother without two Euros to rub together. Then serendipity takes an hand in his life as he encounters "Ali" (Hilmi Sözer). When I say encounter, well it's more of a baptism really as the latter man - merrily full of alcohol - narrowly misses "Thomas" before careering his Range Rover perilously close to a river. Luckily, there's no real harm done but with the police already on the case of this habitual drunk driver, it's only a matter of time before he loses his licence. Fairly immediately, that happens and so the still grateful "Ali" recruits a new driver to help him manage his 45 fast-food kiosk business empire. The job also comes with one extra benefit. "Laura" (Nina Hoss) is married to "Ali" and the two take an instant shine to each other. It's not that she hates her husband, indeed she's actually quite grateful to him, but he essentially bought her - or her debts - and so you couldn't exactly call it a love match. When "Ali" makes a business trip back to his T
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