''Salami Aleikum'' is a 2009

Comedy film The comedy film is a film genre that emphasizes humor. These films are designed to amuse audiences and make them laugh. Films in this genre typically have a happy ending, with dark comedy being an exception to this rule. Comedy is one of the o ...

Ali Samadi Ahadi Ali Samadi Ahadi (born 9 February 1972 in Tabriz, Iran) is an Iranian-German filmmaker and scriptwriter who has directed ''Lost Children (2005 film), Lost Children'', ''Salami Aleikum'', ''The Green Wave'', etc. Biography Ali Samadi Ahadi was b ...

about an Iranian migrant family in Germany who try to cope with life in exile. There are

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parts and some musical videoclips (Iranian music and dance) are included. ''Salami Aleikum'' was a successful film in Germany.

Summary

Mohsen Taheri (

Navíd Akhavan Navid Akhavan (; born 9 June 1980 in Tehran) is an Iranian-German actor and film director. He is also known as Navid Navid. Navid was born in Teheran, Iran. Due to the Iran–Iraq War, Navid, aged 4, escaped with his family from his native coun ...

), son of a migrated Iranian butcher family, hates and is afraid of killing animals. When his father (

Michael Niavarani Michael Niavarani (born April 29, 1968 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian-Persian stand-up comedian in the tradition of Austrian cabaret, an author, and a TV and movie actor. Niavarani, whose comedic work often draws on his inter-cultural upbringi ...

) is sick, he has to go to the post-

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East Germany East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from Foundation of East Germany, its formation on 7 October 1949 until German reunification, its reunification with West Germany (FRG) on ...

to buy sheep. In a village there, Mohsen falls in love with former shot-putter Ana ( Anna Böger) who is vegetarian. Mohsen tells them that he is from a Persian textile dynasty, and the villagers hope he saves the village's textile industry. Mohsen becomes more and more en vogue until his family come to find him.

Prizes

Salami Aleikum won the International Filmfest Emden 2009, the second prize of the

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and the NDR Film Prize for the offspring. The film was nominated for the MFG-Star Baden-Baden 2009. The film won the prize of the German Film Critics Award 2009, for Best Debut Film at the

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. In 2010 the film's composer Ali N. Askin was nominated for the

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. On 9 May 2012 Salami Aleikum received the

Civis media prize The CIVIS Media Prize for Integration and Cultural Diversity in Europe, or CIVIS Media Prize for short, was founded in 1987 by the Federal Government Commissioner for Foreigners' Issues together with ARD (broadcaster), ARD, under the responsibilit ...

References

* http://www.salami-aleikum.at/06-stab-besetzung.php

External links

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