The Chef
Filmfest 2014
(Der Koch)
Germany, India, Switzerland 2013
Original version with English subtitles
(Original: German, English, Tamil)
World Premiere
Director: Ralf Huettner
Section: Spotlight
Maravan, 24, is a Tamil asylum seeker in Zurich working as a lowly member of the kitchen staff in a gourmet restaurant even though he is an outstanding chef in his own country, Sri Lanka, and well versed in the secrets of aphrodisiacal cuisine.
When Maravan is fired, a co-worker, Andrea, makes him a proposition: they become partners catering Maravan's culinary specialties. They start out by cooking for couples to whom they are introduced by a sex therapist. But the success of 'Love Food' soon gets out and around, and a very different, not to say much more lucrative, clientele shows its interest; men from the worlds of politics and finance, some of whom prove to be quite unappetizing. Hired to cook for an arms dealer, who is supplying both sides in the civil war in his homeland, Maravan seizes the opportunity to finally take fate in his own hands…
Cast: Jessica Schwarz, Yrsa Daley-Ward, Hamza Jeetooa, Hanspeter Müller-Drossaart, Natalie Perera
Credits
Screenplay: Ruth Toma, Original von/ by: Martin Suter
Director of Photography: Thomas „Tommy“ Wildner
Film Editor: Kai Schröter
Composer: Ralf Hildenbeutel, Stevie B-Zet
Production Designer: Andrea Kessler, Monica Rottmeyer
Costume Design: Anna-Barbara Friedli
Sound: Andreas Wölki
Producer: Helge Sasse
Co-Producer: Sonja Ewers, Anne Walser, Peter Nadermann
Production Company: Senator Film Köln
Distributor: Senator Film Verleih GmbH
Director: Ralf Huettner
