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Luise und Mohamed
Long-term documentary accompanying Luise, a white German woman who converted to Islam at the age of 19. How does she get along with her husband Mohamed, how are their children growing up, and how do Luise's rather atheistic parents deal with the new abundance of religious rules and commandments?
Timeline
- 1Luise – Eine deutsche Muslima11/8/200752m 0.0
Luise wears a headscarf and Islamic clothing. She regularly attends the mosque. At the age of 19, the German woman converted to Islam, and her parents fear losing her. Today, Luise is twenty-five years old, married to Mohamed, an Arab computer science student, and happy in the world she has chosen for herself. The couple has two children, with whom they lived in a house with Luise's parents until recently. Outwardly, the family appears to be united. But internally, they struggle daily with conflicts, deal with contradictions, and experience borderline situations that they can hardly bear.
- 2Luise und Mohamed - Aufbruch nach Algier1/2/20161h 1m 0.0
Louise is the only daughter of an artistic, liberal German family. She marries Mohamed, a Muslim from Algeria. Louise converts to Islam and lives a life of serious commitment to the faith. She misbehaves and scandalises people. The two have now been married for 15 years and live with their three children in Germany. Their older daughter Sainab is eleven, their son is seven and the younger daughter is nine months old. In complete opposition to the current trend, in which millions of people are escaping the African continent, the family makes an unusual decision. They emigrate from Germany to Algeria. The film follows them for two years as they bravely try to live between two fundamentally different cultures.