Kebab Connection
Synopsis
Cheto, a Kurdish political refugee living in Paris, has a French girlfriend called Christine. Cheto wants to get married, but not to Christine. He wants a beautiful Kurdish virgin who is also a patriot. He sends his best friend, Misto Vidéo, with a camcorder to Kurdistan to find his bride. He chooses a beautiful bride and a marriage is arranged. But it’s not the happy bride he has chosen that shows up in Paris.
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Director (1)
Actors (20)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Les Films du Rivage
- Co-productions : STUDIOCANAL, Les Films de l'Ouest, Le Bureau
- Film exports/foreign sales : STUDIOCANAL
- French distribution : AMLF
Full credits (11)
- Executive Producer : Marc Ruscart
- Screenwriter : Hiner Saleem
- Director of photography : Valérie Le Gurun
- Music Composer : Hiner Saleem
- Editor : Anna Ruiz
- Sound Recordist : Frédéric Ullman
- Costume designers : Muriel Senaux, Claire Risterucci
- Press Attaché (film) : Vanessa Jerrom
- Sound editor : Corinne Rozenberg
- Assistant Editor : Pascal Latil
- Production Designer : Jean-Marc Trantran Ba
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Themes : Exile
- Production language : French, Kurdish
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French
- Production year : 1998
- French release : 03/06/1998
- Runtime : 1 h 40 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 90.270
- Visa issue date : 20/05/1998
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
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The script started out from a basic fact of Kurdish life: the first generation of Kurdish refugees, who were not very numerous, could not return to their homeland so their families took charge of finding them a wife. When a girl was agreed upon, she was “dispatched” with a guarantee of her good morals and virginity. These types of marriage were known ironically as “postal marriages”. Nowadays, the camcorder has revolutionized the practice and we talk about “video marriages”.
Hiner Saleem
