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

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.

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

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

Beta Cinema has closed several deals for Fatih Akin's "Amrum" ahead of the film's world premiere in the Cannes Film Festival.

Unspooling in Cannes Premiere, Akin’s “Amrum” is a family drama set in 1945 on the titular North Sea German island and based on the autobiographical novel of screenwriter Hark Bohm, who also penned ...

It’s Hark Bohm’s, Akin’s co-screenwriter on In the Fade and 2016 German hit Goodbye Berlin. “Hark told me about his childhood in [the North Frisian Island] Amrum, about having nothing to ...

Director Fatih Akin does a wonderfully understated job of setting the innocence and the cruelty of childhood against the fall of fascism ...

In a new movie at the Cannes film festival, Director Fatih Akin explores the lives of Germans on a northern island as the ...

German-Turkish director Fatih Akin's new film "Amrum", which follows a Hitler Youth member on a remote German island towards the end of World War Two, is meant to hold a mirror up to German society, ...

Hark Bohm (born 18 May 1939) is a German actor, screenwriter, film director, playwright and former professor for cinema studies. He was born in Hamburg-Othmarschen and grew up on the island Amrum.

Based on the childhood memories of German director and screenwriter Hark Bohm, the film is set in the final weeks of World War II on the secluded island of Amrum. Twelve-year-old Nanning braves ...