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Max Frisch said, “We called for manpower, and what arrived was human beings.” In this scene, Hüseyin is practicing speaking German in the mirror and is having problems with adjectives, his nephew hears his practicing in the mirror and corrects it. Hüseyin’s nonchalant reaction adds humors while showing the reality. By creating the film in this way, the movie delivers some real insight how arriving in Germany and assimilating within the new culture must have felt like. Language is just one of the barriers that were faced by the guest workers in Germany. Assimilation is hard and in this film, a lot of the negative aspects of the Turks trying to fit in are seen by the viewer as fun, happy and even glamorous at times instead of the always depressive times they had to have been.