Born in Absurdistan
1999 · 110 MIN · IMDB 6.1 · 266 VOTES · DIR. Houchang Allahyari
Overview
It all begins with a mistake, an error with serious consequences: in a hospital the new-born babies of an Austrian couple and a Turkish family of immigrant workers are mixed up and go home with the wrong parents. By the time the mistake comes to light, it emerges that the Turkish family, including the baby, has been deported. The despairing Austrian couple begins a confusing odyssey through Turkey in order to track down the unsuspecting family to their native village. But they are not at all convinced that the babies have been mixed up. It is decided that the only way to know for sure is to have a blood test done. It is decided that the blood work is done in Vienna due to the better medical resources, but that will be far from simple. It will involve an illegal smuggling of the Turks across the Austrian border.
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00:00:15 BORN IN ABSURDISTAN
00:05:18 And tomorrow we're getting a bigger couch.
00:11:30 -PIease caIm down, we can taIk about it.
00:13:41 I trust your father-in-Iaw was pIeased, too.
00:16:56 Who Iives here?
00:20:03 -Do you think he understands any of it?
00:23:30 No, no, I'm the one who shouId be sorry. PIease.
00:25:44 Oh no, I forgot to teII him he has to submit a written appeaI.
00:29:03 and she toId me the chiIdren were stiII switched.
00:34:03 Everything's fine here.
00:40:33 TeII him the car can't be fixed today.
00:47:13 -You know the Austrian... -Yes, so what?
00:50:29 I don't think they'II ever give up the baby
00:55:08 and I feeI Iike I'm imprisoned.
00:59:59 -Better than being a coId-hearted dog Iike you!
01:04:50 -You must have been very popuIar.
01:07:41 hands it over.
01:12:24 Do you want to finish? -No tongue, just the Iips.
01:16:48 I can drive a friggin' horse-drawn carriage.
01:22:20 You were here with the Secretary of the Interior.
01:25:16 It's a jungIe out there.
01:29:08 -OK, here comes my main man.
01:31:15 -Mrs. Strohmayer
01:33:28 not bad aII this huIIabaIoo, hmm?