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Tour Abroad
(Die Auslandstournee)

Screening on Film
Directed by Ayse Polat.
With Özlem Blume, Siir Eloglu, Özay Fecht.
Germany, 1998, 35mm, color, 91 min.
German with English subtitles.

Senay (Blume) is an ornery eleven-year-old girl whose father has just died. Zeki is a gay Turkish cabaret singer who responds to her plight. Together, this odd couple travels through Europe in search of the orphan-girl’s family. Tour Abroad is a tender story of friendship in an unfriendly world, where lonely people must support each other in cruel and corrupt surroundings. A mix of humor, glitz, and sensitivity, the film follows the couple as Zeki rediscovers some of his own lost humanity and Senay comes to realize, after finding her mother, that her real identity must reside in herself and not in her parentage.

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