The boy who stopped talking



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Memo is a nine-year old Kurdish boy who lives in eastern Turkey with his mother and little sister. When war threatens the region where Memo is living, his father decides to permanently relocate the family to the Netherlands, where he works. Memo doesn‘t want to leave his beloved village, so arriving in the Netherlands Memo begins his own unique protest against the forced move: he stops talking.




Productiejaar 1995
Leeftijd
Lengte Feature film: 108 minutes, television-series: 5 x 25 mi

Crew
Screenplay Lou Brouwers
Director Ben Sombogaart
Producer Burny Bos
Co-producer KRO, IKON, BRTN
Line Producer Rens Oomens
D.O.P. Piotr Kukla
Art direction Michel de Graaf
Sound Erik Langhout
Light Jacco Post
Costume Vera de Jong, Mariëlla Devos
Make-up Iris Bakker
Editor Herman P. Koerts
Music Nizamettin Aric
Sound design Peter Flamman

Cast
Mohammed Akkus Erçan Ohran
Jeroen ligthart Louis Ates
Husnu Akkus Brader Musiki
Zin Akkus Lava Sulayman
Fatma Akkus Husna Killi
Kemal Mecan Celil Toksoz
Mustafa Halso Hussain
Rojda Shieland Muhammad
Inge Smeets Heleen Hummelen