Wednesday | December 6, 2006 7:00 pm

Dragon Chow
(Drachenfutter)

Screening on Film

Directed by Jan Schütte.
With Bhasker, Frank Oladeinde, Youngme Song.
West Germany, 1987, 35mm, black & white, 75 min.
German with English subtitles.

A young Pakistani man seeking to gain residence in Hamburg takes an illegal job in a Chinese restaurant. He befriends a young waiter who decides to join him in pursuing their dream of opening a restaurant of their own. Director Schütte provides a humanist perspective on cultural displacement in modern Germany and the struggles of the new immigrant class.