Kanak Attack (2000) User Reviews

Nice German 'gangsta-movie'

[spiderus · 8/10 · 26 November 2000]

I went to this movie to see some kind of a German 'gangsta-movie' and I didn't become disappointed. The story is about the criminal activities of Erkan Ongun from Kiel and his friends, showing their life in mixed episodes in the Bermuda triangle brothel, jail and gambling house.

After an moderate beginning the movie gets faster and more violent. For sure, it's not comparable to movies like 'Boyz N the Hood', but it's a German movie, and really not a typical one. The editing is nice, a good and suitable sound track and at least nice acting. The story is surly sometimes quite simple, but if you want to see a German 'gangsta-movie' with some funny cuts, go for it.

Authentic in a way...

[Mr Schmidt · 8/10 · 24 May 2002]

This movie has many powerful characters who really live their roles. It is not one of those German productions where you get the feeling that the actors are forced into the characters. The acting is very natural and thus convincing which adds to the authenticity of the story. It is a story taken from the real life, you can feel that. It is not made up by some people and than mixed together to suit a certain target group. Watch it if you can!

A realistic study of a young "small size" criminal in Germany. Narrated in episodes and with great action style camera!

[Amiram · 7/10 · 8 April 2001]

The film shows the live of Ertan Ongun a "small size" criminal living in Kiel/Germany. Ertan deals with drugs and makes small burglaries etc.

At the beginning of the film one of his friends is shot down. The story shows the way downwards of young men without a real perspective who present themselves as fairly tough and cool. The film is narrated in episodes. A fast action camera highlights the atmosphere of a fast and broken life. The story includes a good portion of self ironic humour. Comparable to Pulp fiction

Insider view of criminal subculture

[SamYotix · 9/10 · 5 December 2001]

Their parents came to Germany as guest workers - and stayed. They opened Kebab stands and shops, had cars and families. Of course, many "guest workers" didn't want to go back to Turkey. They stayed.

Their children grew up in Germany - speaking Turkish at home, with their friends, stuck outside "normal" society. This film examines a small part of the german-turkish counterculture, the part most suitable to a feature film: Its dirty, heroin-abusing, violent underside, the steet "kanaksters" (kanak gangsters).

Ertan (Luk Piyes), the main character, is a charming (if brutal) small-time criminal: Heroin dealer, grocery robber, not-quite pimp. The film is told in a series of interlinked vignettes, structured as if they were memories or stories told by Ertan, conveniently in chronological order. Kanak Attack has a fast pace, uses various editing trick to good effect and shows a form of counterculture that few people ever experience from the inside - unless they are from the german-turkish working-class ghettos.

Normally I don't like movies made in Germany but this is good.

[yusef_la · 10/10 · 1 January 2007]

The movie is good, it shows the life of a young drug dealer (Ertan Onguen) in Kiel – Germany. The film will be liked by people who have grown up on the streets of cities in Germany and people who hang around with drug dealers, pimps, prostitutes and all sorts of criminals.

Parents of immigrant children in Germany should watch this movie and try to understand that if they don't help and constantly support their children to get good education their children are very likely to spend most of their time outside on the streets with people like Ertan.

Normally German movies lack style or any sort of charismatic acting and actors but this one is not like that. The actor who plays Ertan does a great job and also the other actor who plays Ertan's best friend.

Oh, this movie is really bad

[tm-23 · 1/10 · 27 September 2000]

I've seen this movie in a Sneak PreView, and i stayed in cinema only because i don't want to waste money. This movie has no continuity, and there's no critical statement about the crime shown in this movie. Prejudices are shown all the time in this movie, and it's really boring to see drug dealers and others acting like real idiots. The police catches them more than once in this movie, and they have done much before the action in this movie, but they were never in the prison. This movie is much worser than my English is.

good movie

[danielu-2 · 29 August 2002]

I've seen the movie, and I have to say it's really great. But in the movie there are some mistakes: First there is no "Autobahnraststaette Neumuenster" and second in the jail in Neumuenster one of the prison attendant has the wrong coat of arms on his uniform, it shows the coat of arms of Lower Saxony instead of the coat of arms of Schleswig-Holstein.