Diane Kruger reunites with the German-Turkish filmmaker for this coming-of-age story set at the end of World War II.

Set on a picturesque windswept German island in the waning days of World War II, the Cannes premiere 'Amrum' walks an ...

Be it Short Sharp Shock, The Edge of Heaven, Soul Kitchen or In the Fade, Fatih Akin, the prolific German filmmaker of ...

Kino Lorber has acquired North American distribution rights to Fatih Akin's coming-of-age drama “Amrum,” which made its world ...

In Amrum, Fatih Akin stages a sentimental conversation between himself and his mentor, the German director Hark Bohm. This project, which premiered at Cannes outside the main competition ...

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 ...

German-Turkish director Fatih Akin's new film "Amrum", which follows a Hitler Youth member on a remote German island towards ...

Nanning loses his job and is labeled a rat by his peers. Akin uses this early moment to establish the tension between Amrum’s long-time, working-class residents and the Nazis transplanted there ...

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 ...