
MARTIN READS THE QURAN
Director: Jurijs Saule
Feature film | Germany | 2024
106 min | Dolby 5.1
58th Hof International Film Festival
2024
An agreeable family man with Iranian roots and a professor of Islamic studies. One asks the other to engage in a conversation about faith and disbelief, good and evil, and the question of whether the commandments of the Koran are compatible with violence. What begins as a seemingly harmless discussion evolves into a mental showdown when the professor realizes that his visitor is planning an attack – and already preparing the bomb.
With Alissia Krupsky, Anna Bardorf, Ben Akkaya, Charles Toulouse, Dirk Talaga, Elisabeth Helene Simon, Lorena Belen Davies, Prince Chughtai, Sarah Sandeh, Tanju Bilir, Ulrich Tukur, Yvonne Ernicke, Zejhun Demirov
Screenplay Michail Lurje, Jurijs Saule, Cinematography Arsenij Gusev, Editing Jurijs Saule, Production design Stefan Rohde, Costume design Riccarda Merten-Eicher, Casting Jurijs Saule, Sound Achim Burkart, Sound design Adrian Lo, Thorsten Hoppe, Music Raphael Schalz, Make-up Mandy Steiger, Executive production Michail Lurje, Jurijs Saule