Director: Burhan Qurbani
Writers: Enis Maci, Burhan Qurbani
Cast: Kenda Hmeidan, Verena Altenberger, Hiam Abbass, Mona Zarreh Hoshyari Khah, Mehdi Nebbou, Meriam Abbas und Banafshe Hourmazdi u.v.m.
Producers: Sommerhaus Filmproduktion
Co-Producers: Madants, Getaway, ZDF, ARTE in Zusammenarbeit mit Dreaming Sheep
Distribution Germany: Port au Prince Pictures
World Sales: Goodfellas
Press (Germany): Philipp Graf, boxfish films
+++ In German Cinemas from May 8 +++
Shakespeare’s tragedy of Richard III reimagined: Two noble houses, the Arab families York and Lancaster, have carried their war from the ganglands of Berlin into the courtrooms. Rashida is the youngest daughter and lawyer of the Yorks. Today she ends years of violence with a bloody attack on the heads of the Lancaster clan.
Peace at last!
Still, as a woman in this world of men, Rashida is but a pawn. In the peace of gangsters, she is condemned to obedience. Sister, yes. Daughter, sure. Yet never to be queen. But Rashida does not want to obey. She wants to rule. To claim the crown, Rashida must scheme, seduce her enemies, and kill her beloved …
Then, at the height of her power, Rashida is overtaken by the violence of a far older war. She finds herself thrown back into her innermost self: Memories of a childhood under bombs. A garden of loneliness and destruction. A mirror of a wounded soul.
A ruler over a kingdom of dust and dirt.
