Soul Kitchen

From gifted Turkish director Fatih Akin (Head-On), a multi-culti comedy set in Hamburg, Germany, where a Greek restaurant owner (Adam Bousdoukos) takes his humble establishment upscale, upsetting regulars.

Young restaurant owner Zinos is down on his luck. His girlfriend Nadine has moved to Shanghai, his Soul Kitchen customers are boycotting the new gourmet chef, and he‘s having back trouble! Things start looking up when the hip crowd embraces his revamped culinary concept, but that doesn‘t mend Zinos’ broken heart. He decides to fly to China for Nadine, leaving the restaurant in the hands of his unreliable ex-con brother Illias. Both decisions turn out disastrous: Illias gambles away the restaurant to a shady real estate agent and Nadine has found a new lover! But brothers Zinos and Illias might still have one last chance to get Soul Kitchen back if they can stop arguing and work together as a team.

“You could call Soul Kitchen a romance with sensational music, or a hymn to friendship with romantic resonances. Whatever you want to call it, the thing is bursting with life.” (Joe Morgenstern, Wall St. Journal)

“Not to warm to this movie would be churlish, and foodies will drool on demand; I recommend the shoal of silvery fish, spitting in a wide pan and awaiting its rain of lemon.” (Anthony Lane, New Yorker)

FILM FESTIVALS & AWARDS
VENICE FILM FESTIVAL 2009 / WINNER – SPECIAL JURY PRIZE, YOUNG CINEMA AWARD
TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL 2009
TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL 2010