Reframing ‘Gastarbeiter’ Migration: Family, Photography and Cultural Memory in <i>Almanya — Willkommen in Deutschland</i>

Interpreting it as constitutive and representative of the film’s exploration cultural memory processes, this article identifies an abundance frames in Almanya — Willkommen Deutschland. Visual frequently form photographs abound film. At same time, narrative structure entwines present past temporal frames, with latter embedded into former through acts intradiegetic narration. As well accentuating essential role played by constructions pointing to family a key ‘social frame memory’, both visual structural film accentuate limited perspective any retrospective account, which invariably specific selective way. I also expose that Deutschland is memory-productive memory-reflective: does not only illustrate processes action within narrative, contributes new about ‘Gastarbeiter’ migration from Turkey Germany. Considering popularity audiences Germany evidence broad reach its conclude constitutes self-conscious situated, constructive successful contribution twenty-first-century German memory.