THE MILAN PROTOCOL

2017
Feature Film 109 min.
Germany

Writer and Director: Peter Ott
Production: mîtosfilm in Co-produktion with WDR, HR/ARTE, MMC Movies Köln
Supported by: Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Deutscher Filmförderfonds
Cast: Catrin Striebeck, Erol Afsin, Christoph Bach, Samy Abdel Fattah, Bangin Ali, Adil Abdulrahman, Diman Zandi, Hussein Hassan, Mouafak Rushdie etc.

World Premiere: Internationales Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg 2017

Festivals: Liverpool Independent Film Festival, 6th Duhok International Film Festival

On her way to a wounded YPJ fighter Martina, a German doctor working and living in Iraqi Kurdistan, gets kidnapped by a Sunnite clan on IS territory in Syria. While Martina is suffering from being captive, different global players in the region try to take advantage of the German hostage. Besides the German Federal Intelligence Service also the Turkish and Kurdish secret services want to be part of “the game”. Not knowing who to trust, Martina starts losing her ability to distinguish between reality and imagination.