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Directed by | Fatih Akın |
Written by | Fatih Akın |
Produced by | Stefan Schubert Ralph Schwingel |
Starring | Mehmet Kurtuluş Aleksandar Jovanovic Adam Bousdoukos Regula Grauwiller |
Cinematography | Frank Barbian |
Edited by | Andrew D. Bird |
Music by | Ulrich Kodjo Wendt |
Production companies | Wüste Filmproduktion Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) |
Distributed by | PolyGram Filmed Entertainment |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
Country | Germany |
Language | German |
Short Sharp Shock (German: Kurz und schmerzlos) is a 1998 film directed by Turkish-German director Fatih Akın.
The film, which according to Rekin Teksoy, writing in Turkish Cinema, "focuses on the identity crises faced by German youth from various ethnic backgrounds,"[1] was the feature debut of the German-born director of Turkish descent and is said to have "represented a new German-Turkish cinema."[2]