Overview
Maravan, aged 24, is a Tamil asylum seeker in Switzerland, working as casual help in a highly rated, gourmet restaurant in Zurich. It is also well below his own standards, because he is a gifted and highly passionate cook. In Sri Lanka his grandmother initiated him in the culinary arts, not least in the secrets of aphrodisiacal cuisine. When Maravan loses his job his colleague Andrea persuades him into a deal of the special kind: a joint catering venture for love menus.
Fun facts
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Based on
Based on The Chef
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Setting
Set in Zurich
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Martin SuterNovel
- Ruth TomaScreenplay
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- November 27, 2014
- Original language
- German
- Countries
- India, Germany, Switzerland
Production
Cast
- Hamza JeetooaMaravan
Jessica SchwarzAndrea
Hanspeter MüllerDalmann
Yrsa Daley-WardMakeda
Max RüdlingerSchäfer
Jean Pierre CornuHuwyler
Jeff MirzaMahit
Neelam BakshiAninda
Faraz AyubUlagu
Christoph GauglerFink- Natalie PereraSandana
Peter PragerRobert Mellinger
Corinna KirchhoffIsa Mellinger- Jane WeinfurtnerSung-Hee
Michael AbendrothDr. Wolf
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