Soul Kitchen

This comedy tells the story of Zinos Kazantsakis, who runs a cheap restaurant called Soul Kitchen in a run-down warehouse district. While the food isn’t very good, a regular clientele shows up each evening for cheap beer and filling food. Bad luck follows Zinos like a shadow, and when his girlfriend Nadine runs off to China, he decides to follow her, putting his brother in charge of the restaurant. However, his brother is a convicted criminal, and before long the city’s underworld has taken over the place and tax collectors are threatening to shut it down. When Zinos returns, he discovers his diner is in shambles.

 

Fatih Akin’s Soul Kitchen won the special jury prize at the 66th Venice Film Festival in 2009.

The film will be screened in German with English subtitles, run time 99mins.