Fatih Akın had reservations going into Amrum, a soulfully classical coming-of-age tale set on the eponymous German island in the waning days of WWII. The story was by and about Akın’s friend and frequent collaborator Hark Bohm, a veteran of the German New Wave alongside Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Initially, Akın was only set to produce, but when Bohm fell ill and asked Akın to take over directing duties, the Turkish German filmmaker behind deeply personal films like Head-On and In the Fade had to find a way into Bohm’s personal recollections of life during wartime. (Bohm ultimately passed away in […]
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