Soul Kitchen

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  • Opened August 20, 2010 (Limited)
  • 1 hr 39 min
  • NR

  • Young German-Greek restaurant owner Zinos is down on his luck. His girlfriend Nadine has moved to Shanghai, his Soul Kitchen customers are boycotting the new gourmet chef, and he‘s having back trouble! Things start looking up when the hip crowd embraces his revamped culinary concept, but that doesn‘t mend Zinos’ broken heart. He decides to fly to China for Nadine, leaving the restaurant in the hands of his unreliable ex-con brother Illias. Both decisions turn out disastrous: Illias gambles away the restaurant to a shady real estate agent and Nadine has found a new lover! But brothers Zinos and Illias might still have one last chance to get Soul Kitchen back if they can stop arguing and work together as a team.
    Note: Film is presented in German and Greek with English subtitles. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Adam Bousdoukos, Moritz Bleibtreu, Birol Ünel, Anna Bederke, Pheline Roggan, Lucas Gregorowicz
  • Director: Fatih Akin
  • Genres: Art House/Foreign, Comedy

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Movieline
| Stephanie Zacharek

This is a picture whose dance steps are determined by any number of mishaps and misfortunes; like the dance floor of a great club on a good night, it's gorgeous, unruly and exhilarating all at once. Read full review

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Wall Street Journal
| Joe Morgenstern

Who knew this German-born Turkish filmmaker could perpetrate a delirious farce-in German and Greek with good English subtitles-that doesn't flag for a single one of its 99 minutes? Read full review

75
Chicago Tribune
| Michael Phillips

The funky, enjoyable Hamburg-set comedy Soul Kitchen is a celebration of co-writer-director Fatih Akin's home base, a spacious, moody city of apparently limitless industrial warehouse space - like Chicago. Read full review

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San Francisco Chronicle
| Walter Addiego

This new picture is mainly in the spirit of fun, a loose, generally good-natured comedy with screwball overtones. Read full review

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Demir Gokgol as Sokrates, Anna Bederke as Lucia, Moritz Bleibtreu as Illias, Adam Bousdoukos as Zinos, Pheline Roggan as Nadine, Lucas Gregorowicz as Lutz and Birol Unel as Shayn in "Soul Kitchen."