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Keywords

  • Einhundertvier
  • Location: Cologne
  • Made in Germany
  • Politics: Human Rights
  • Topic: Refugees
  • Berlin
  • education
  • politics
  • refugees

Actors

  • Ismahan T. Ali
  • Simona Gianini
  • Saul L. Galvez
  • Abdul W. Gharane
  • Bünyamin Özdemir

Director

  • Karin Jurschick

Documentary, Independent


1h 30min


16+

DE


Germany
2009
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More and more immigrants have been the landing in Germany since the 1950's. But it wasn't until 2005 that a new immigration law went into effect.

More and more immigrants have been the landing in Germany since the 1950's. But it wasn't until 2005 that a new immigration law went into effect.


Among other regulations, this law requires non-European immigrants pass a difficult language test (Zertifikat Deutsch) to get citizenship or an extension of their residency permits. Karin Jurschick's film documents one of these so-called integration courses at an adult education center in Cologne. Here language students from China, Somalia, Afghanistan, Marocco and the Dominican Republic try to learn German. (Note: the coursecertificate is now called "Zertifikat Integrationskurs" which encompasses the German language exam and test about German culture, civics and history shown in the film.)

Cast & Crew