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Der Imker Switzerland 2013 – 107min.

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Der Imker

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Thanks to his 500 colonies of bees, Ibrahim Gezer lived a prosperous life with his wife and 11 children in Turkish Kurdistan. Having joined the Kurdish resistance, one of his daughters is killed by the Turkish army. Arrested and tortured, Ibrahim hides in the mountains for seven years before fleeing to Istanbul. But the blows continue as his wife commits suicide and his children emigrate; those in Switzerland help him in. When he isn't allowed to become a beekeeper (after being told it's a hobby and not a job), Ibrahim is put into an occupational program where he works with handicapped people packing Ricola products. The problem is that in Turkey his birth date was pushed forward five years on his ID, which makes him 60 instead of 65. Will he be able to get social security, quit his job at Ricola and be reunited with his dearest bees?

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German Switzerland: 6. June 2013

Romandie: 15. January 2014

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