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, was born ...

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 ...

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There’s nothing showy about “Amrum,” but it can leave an audience shaken. Akin has fashioned a rare film that relies on the power of simplicity to tell a story that is anything but simple.

A review of 'Amrum', from director Fatih Akin looking at a 12 year old german boy's coming of age on a remote island in the waning days of WWII ...

The German soul has been much on Akin’s mind of late. While Amrum is set in the late 1940s, its theme of confronting Germany’s Nazi past feels frighteningly relevant.

It is set on the island of Amrum in spring 1945. Seal hunting, fishing at night, toiling in the fields – nothing is too dangerous or too arduous for 12-year-old Nanning to help his mother feed ...

Diane Kruger Goes Home to Reteam With Fatih Akin for ‘Amrum’: “We Bring Out the Best in Each Other” Eight years after their gritty revenge film 'In the Fade' wowed Cannes, the German ...

Fatih Akin’s WWII coming-of-age tale Amrum has begun shooting in Hamburg with newcomer Jasper Billerbeck joining German stars Laura Tonke and Diane Kruger in the cast.. The feature, which was ...

Diane Kruger stars in Fatih Akin's 'Amrum,' about a 12-year-old boy living on an island off the coast of Germany during the last days of Nazi Germany.