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London-based documentary specialists Taskovski Films has picked up German feature documentary Love, Deutschmarks And Death, which is screening in Berlin Panorama this week.

Taskovski has taken worldwide sales and distribution rights, except Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland for the film. Rapid Eye Movies holds the German rights and will release the film in Germany later this year.

Directed by Cem Kaya, the film uncovers a forgotten subculture – that of the music made by the Turkish “guest workers” who came to Germany from the early 1960s onwards. Often suffering from homesickness, stuck in dead-end jobs, treated badly by their hosts, they nonetheless created their own utterly distinctive musical culture working in everything from pop to hip-hop.

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