Short Sharp Shock (film)
| Short Sharp Shock | |
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| Directed by | Fatih Akın |
| Written by | Fatih Akın |
| Produced by | Stefan Schubert Ralph Schwingel |
| Starring | Mehmet Kurtuluş Aleksandar Jovanovic Adam Bousdoukos Regula Grauwiller |
| Cinematography | Frank Barbian |
| Edited by | Andrew D. Bird |
| Music by | Ulrich Kodjo Wendt |
Production companies | Wüste Filmproduktion Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) |
| Distributed by | PolyGram Filmed Entertainment |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | German |
Short Sharp Shock (German: Kurz und schmerzlos) is a 1998 film directed by Turkish-German director Fatih Akın.
The film, which according to Rekin Teksoy, writing in Turkish Cinema, "focuses on the identity crises faced by German youth from various ethnic backgrounds," was the feature debut of the German-born director of Turkish descent and is said to have "represented a new German-Turkish cinema."