Dragon Chow
(Drachenfutter)
Screening on Film
Directed by Jan Schütte.
With Bhaskar, Ric Young, Buddy Uzzaman.
West Germany, 1987, 35mm, color, 75 min.
English subtitles .
With Bhaskar, Ric Young, Buddy Uzzaman.
West Germany, 1987, 35mm, color, 75 min.
English subtitles .
Two young immigrants in Germany decide to start their own restaurant, where they employ a mixture of struggling immigrants like themselves. Jan Schütte manages a delightful new slant on the oft-treated problem of immigrants in Germany through affectionate observation of his melting pot of characters. The fact that very few of them can understand each other— they communicate in Swahili, Mandarin, Gujarati, and pidgin German— puts the spectator in their position, yet doesn’t obscure the issues. This is a film that enriches and entertains, and possibly creates more tolerance than more strident projects.