Tayfun Bademsoy
- 1984
In this strangely aloof teen crime drama, three high school buddies share a passion for motorbikes. They work at the same auto repair shop, and when their boss dies and they get shafted with a phony car deal, they decide on a very dangerous way of paying back their debt. Albi (Max Wigger), Franz (Dietmar Bär), and Tayfun (Tayfun Bademosy) live for motorbikes, spending every spare pfennige on their passion, even setting aside very little time or money for women. All three have low-level mechanics jobs at a grimy auto shop, and when their boss dies from a heart attack, they are left with the shop to manage. Cheated in a car-deal scam, they suddenly find themselves burdened with a large debt to a mobster and either they pay it off or lose their kneecaps. Driven by a desire to keep their body parts intact, they begin to fake accidents with unsuspecting motorists and then talk their victims into paying up front, without calling the police or the insurance company. Their scheme is going well until one day they are looking at a major coup that involves a fatal, head-on crash -- a plan that brings their decision about how to continue surviving to a head. Director Dominik Graf has captured the teens' world well, and the action scenes and acting are good, yet the three teens remain distanced as human beings. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Dietmar Bar, Tayfun Bademsoy, (more)
- 1983
The tense drama Klassenfeind takes place inside one classroom, as the students express themselves with growing degrees of animosity and polarization, until the schoolroom itself suffers as much damage at their hands as they have suffered internally. The issues that cause trouble among the students are unemployment, a large, poor minority group (the Turks), and the tendency to resort to violence to solve problems. Originally an award-winning play by Nigel Williams for the London stage, this 1978 creation was rewritten for a West German audience, and after its success on the stage, the play was enacted by the same cast for this movie version by Peter Stein. The setting has been changed from South London to its West Berlin counterpart, Kreuzberg, the characters' names are changed to fit the German language, and the issues at hand are also contemporary problems in West Berlin. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Greger Hansen, Stefan Reck, (more)
