Willkommen im Westerwald
movie

Released August 06, 2008
Overview
Ahmad is an Iraqi asylum seeker with uncertain residence status in Germany. The bureaucracy has sent him to the Westerwald, near the sleepy village of Weilershagen. When Ahmad meets the pub owner Katja there, he charms her with his passion for American line dancing. The two of them not only infect the village policeman Ulli, they set off a veritable chain reaction in the village. Soon an enthusiastic line dance formation is formed, which trains for the German championships with ambition but in great secrecy. Because not everyone in Weilershagen wants to accept that an asylum seeker, of all people, is bringing new impetus to the village. And Ahmad's toleration is all too easy to jeopardize. Especially when love and jealousy drive a wedge into the conspiratorial dance community.
Cast

Lisa Martinek
as
Katja

Pasquale Aleardi
as
Ahmad al Mansur

Johann von Bülow
as
Ulli Bullwieser

Lambert Hamel
as
Hermann Bullwieser

Irene Rindje
as
Christine Holzer

Bettina Schwarz
as
Sophie

Anna Böttcher
as
Friederike Landwehr

Werner Lustig
as
Erik Palm
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Cornelius Schwalm
as
Jan-Kay Schindler
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Lesley Jennifer Higl
as
Sigrid Schindel
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Raffaello Kramm
as
Jonathan Berger
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Michael Schreiner
as
Heimleiter