300 Words of German (300 Worte Deutsch) (translated)

300 Worte Deutsch ("300 Words of German") is a German comedy that plays with cultural peculiarities and clichés about Turks living in Germany. Züli Aladağ wrote and directed it, with Ali Samadi Ahadi and Gabriela Sperl as co-writers. Moving between comedy and drama, with German, Turkish and Swiss German heard in it, the film runs 96 minutes. It premiered on 29 June 2013 at Filmfest München, reached German cinemas on 5 February 2015, and has been available on DVD and Blu-ray since 28 August 2015.

The story is set in Cologne, where a community leader who wants to find wives for the unmarried men of his congregation brings young women over from Turkey. When it emerges that the women speak no German and that their language certificates are forged, the immigration authorities step in and deportation looms. The film treats the friction between traditional and modern life with humor. Sermiyan Midyat, Vedat Erincin, Aykut Kayacık, Almila Bağrıaçık, Nursel Köse, Navíd Akhavan, Kida Khodr Ramadan and Özay Fecht are in the cast, with Pelin Öztekin as Nuran. Nadja Uhl, Christoph Maria Herbst, Pegah Ferydoni, Christoph Letkowski, Arzu Bazman and Erdal Yıldız also appear.