Not only did the 1961. agreement between Germany and Turkey bring in “guest workers” to Germany, but their music as well. This documentary film essay represents a tutorial on Turkish and German recent history which tells a story about jobs of turkish emigrants on the assembly line, nostalgia and reunification of a family, Berlin’s Bülowstraße train station bazaar, xenophobia and racism, melancholic songs of the early years and the hip-hop period after the unification of Germany.

This is the world of the Radio Yilmaz, with all kinds of music genres, wedding bands that sing in Kurdish and Arabic in order to meet the demands of the market. In the film Love, Deutschmarks and Death, Cem Kaya has created a rhythmic and vividly told film encyclopedia of Turkish music in Germany.