AMRUM

GERMANY | 2025 | COLOR | DCP | 93’ | GERMAN

Just before the end of WW2, young Nanning, son of a Nazi and member of the Hitler youth, lives happily with his pregnant mother and his brothers in Amrum, an island at the north of Germany. However, his idyllic microcosm is shattered by Germany’s surrender, as the end of the war radically changes the way the other inhabitants view them. Outcasts, they are forced to adapt to a new reality that does not forgive the idealism of the Reich. In the most mature phase of his career, Fatih Akin presents a mature historical drama based on the personal narratives of director and actor Hark Bohm, a long-time collaborator of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who writes the screenplay here, balancing the tenderness befitting a coming-of-age film with the brutality of Nazism. Exquisite cinematography and consistent dialectics describe a film that constitutes an elegant commentary on a country that, given the continuous rise of the far right, seems a bit forgetful. Th.K.

DIRECTOR: Fatih Akin
SCREENWRITERS: Hark Bohm, Fatih Akin
DoP: Karl Walter Lindenlaub
MUSIC: Stefan “Hainbach” Götsch
EDITOR: Andrew Bird
PRINCIPAL CAST: Diane Kruger, Laura Tonke, Jasper Billerbeck, Detlev Buck, Lisa Hagmeister, Matthias Schweighöfer

FATIH AKIN
Important contemporary filmmaker, born in Hamburg in 1973 to Turkish parents. He began studying Visual Communications at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts in 1994. In 2003, he founded the film production company Corazon International. His films have won many awards and distinctions, including the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, the Best Screenplay Award at the Cannes Film Festival and the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He lives in Hamburg.

FILMOGRAPHY (SELECTED)
2025 Amrum 
2017 In the Fade 
2009 Soul Kitchen 
2007 The Edge of Heaven 
2004 Head-On 
1998 Short Sharp Shock