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Set on a picturesque windswept German island in the waning days of World War II, the Cannes premiere 'Amrum' walks an ...
On' director's latest, a 12-year-old boy living on an island off the coast of Germany embarks on a series of adventures to get his mother bread, butter and honey.
Diane Kruger reunites with the German-Turkish filmmaker for this coming-of-age story set at the end of World War II.
Be it Short Sharp Shock, The Edge of Heaven, Soul Kitchen or In the Fade, Fatih Akin, the prolific German filmmaker of ...
Director Fatih Akin does a wonderfully understated job of setting the innocence and the cruelty of childhood against the fall of fascism ...
It is based somewhat on Bohm’s own experience growing up on the remote North Sea German island Amrum, but is a fictional tale centered on Nanning (newcomer Jasper Billlerbeck), who lives with ...
German-Turkish director Fatih Akin, whose “Amrum” debuts Thursday at the Cannes Film Festival, is now working on two new films, a documentary, “Anatolian Dragon,” and a narrative feature, “Ghosts,” ...
Matthias Schweighöfer, star of Fatih Akin’s “Amrum,” wanted to work with the acclaimed “Edge of Heaven” and “In the Cut” director for years before an opportunity presented itself ...
It’s taken another eight years, but Akin and Kruger are back together, and back in Cannes, with their new collaboration, Amrum. This time it’s Akin who is moving out of his comfort zone.
It is based somewhat on Bohm’s own experience growing up on the remote North Sea German Island Amrum, but is a fictional tale centered on 12 year old Nanning (newcomer Jasper Billlerbeck ...
Fatih Akin’s poetic and elegantly spare “Amrum” asks us to take interest in a 12-year-old member of the Hitler youth as he cares for his mother in the last days of World War II, and while we ...