Jargo
Sign in to saveJargo is a 2004 coming of age film about a young man who experiences culture shock from moving from Saudi Arabia to Germany. The film premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and won two awards at the Sarajevo Film Festival. It was directed by Maria Solrun.
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6.0Jargo is a German teen brought up in Saudi Arabia. Moving to Berlin, Jargo maintains his Arabian clothing until he encounters a similar aged German Turk Kamil and here begins his introduction into the world of juvenile cool (read delinquency). He then has to decide which girls he likes while being pressured by his father to get laid.
Released: 2004-01-0190 minDir: Maria SolrunCrime, Drama
Cast
- Constantin von Jascheroff as Jargo
- Udo Kier as Jargos Vater
- Ulrich Noethen as Schuldirektor
- Josefine Preuß as Emilia
- Oktay Özdemir as Kamil
- Nora Waldstätten as Mona
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Key dates
- Published
- 1 January 2004
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- Germany
- Original language
- German
- Director
- María Sólrún Sigurðardóttir
- Screenwriter
- María Sólrún Sigurðardóttir
- Cast member
- Josefine Preuß
- Narrative location
- Berlin
- Duration
- +90
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Jargo is a 2004 coming of age film about a young man who experiences culture shock from moving from Saudi Arabia to Germany. The film premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and won two awards at the Sarajevo Film Festival. It was directed by Maria Solrun.
==Plot== The film is about a young man, Jargo (Constantin von Jascheroff), who is of German descent but has resided in Saudi Arabia with his parents. After his father (Udo Kier) commits suicide, Jargo and his mother move to Berlin. Jargo experiences culture shock, as he is alienated from German culture. He meets a similar aged companion, Kamil (Oktay Özdemir), a working-class youth of Turkish origin. Kamil is a petty criminal, who attracts Jargo, upon whom he comes to have a significant influence. Kamil is passionately in love with his substance-abusive girlfriend, played by Nora Waldstätten, whose fickleness and instability eventually lead to a crisis between Jargo and Kamil.