Né en Absurdistan (2000) **

Directed by Houchang Allayari. With Julia Stemberger, Karl Morkovics and Meltem Cumbul. Two newborn babies might have accidently been switched at birth in a hospital. One baby belongs to a racist Austrian couple in love with Jorg Haider; and the other to a family of poor Turkish immigrants who are promptly deported to their homeland. So now, trying to retrieve their baby, the neo-Nazi couple has to travel all the way to Turkey and face the people they’ve hated all their lives. Conventionally directed, but sharply written, this is the ultimate “xenophobes-getting-their-just-desserts” political comedy, strongly condemning the latest anti-immigrant policies of many European governments.