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Otomo
Directed by
Frieder Schlaich
1999
85m
Not Rated
Drama
6.6
100%
83%
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The true story of Otomo, a black man seeking work and asylum in the German city of Stuttgart. However, all he finds is racism, police trouble and his final destiny.
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Cast of Otomo
Isaach De Bankolé
Otomo
Eva Mattes
Gisela
Hanno Friedrich
Heinz
Barnaby Metschurat
Rolf
Lara Kugler
Simone
Sigrid Burkholder
Anna
Gottfried Breitfuß
Traute Hoess
Stefan Moos
Katja Schmidt-Oehm
Hansjuergen Gerth
Thomas Tucht
Otomo Reviews
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The film doesn't believe the police deserved to die (or that the ticket inspector should have been assaulted), but then again it doesn't believe a society should so treat a man that this is what he comes to do.
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Greg Dean Schmitz
I was impressed by the decision to make Otomo a bit of an anti-hero, seeming aware that in desperate times, good people may say or do things outside the norm.
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
You do get a sense of a German society that is still amazingly bureaucratic and authoritarian.
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
Much of the sense of size in this account of an immigrant worker, who is only one among many thousands in Germany, comes from the performance by Isaach de Bankole.
Newsday
John Anderson
The messages about racism get a bit ham-handed, but the acting and sense of dread are powerful.
New York Times
Elvis Mitchell
A bleak and powerful work, one we probably need more than ever these days.
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
Documents the institutionalized racism and xenophobia that painted one man into a corner, while never excusing the terrible means by which he took his final escape.
Film Journal International
Maria Garcia
Although Otomo is clearly intended for German audiences, the film nevertheless raises issues confronted by every Westernized nation.
WBAI Web Radio
Prairie Miller
Racial profiling is alive and well, not just in real life, but more and more at the movies.
Spirituality & Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
A riveting German film about the dehumanized treatment of refugees.
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