An Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival in the Cannes Premieres Section, Fatih Akin’s Poignant Coming-To Tale of a 12-YEAR-OLD BOY ON A REMOTE German Island in the World War and the Defeat of Homeland’s Nazi Party and Hitler, Is A Side of the War. Seen in Movies. Although the German Competition Entry in the Main Competition, Sound of FallingHas Gotten All the Attention and the Hype for the Country at this year’s festival (it was just picked up by mubi today), I was so modest film is far more impressive and should be taken serial by the germans when it for a submission into the oscar film.
Among Others, Akin Made the Terrific Arthouse Hit In the fade In 2017 and that is where I really took Notice of His Filmmaking Acumen. Howver, this one is billed as a hank bohm film directly by Fatih Akin, a type of the hat to the veteran director bohm now in his 80s who planned to make this film Out after Completing His Screenplay. HIS FRIEND AKIN CAME TO The Rescue, Rewrote the Script (Both Share Credit) and Ended Up Directing. It is bassed someone on bohm’s Own Experience Growing Up on the Remote North German Island Amrum, but is a fictional centered on nanning (NewComer Jasper Billlerbeck), WHO LIVENS WITH HIS MOTHER HILLER (LAUURE TONEK), HIS SIBINGS AND AUNT (LISA Hagmeister) in a small house that seams to be the only one still flying the nazi flag.
It is nearing the end of World War II and Nazi Germany’s Quest to Rule the World. Hitler is dead but these residents do not really get the actual truth of what happened, and at this point it doesn’t matter as a simple trying to survive with bread, food and other necesity. The main industry is growing potatoes and fold, two things young nanning helps at the neighboring farm by tesa (akin regular diane kruge in a small roles) and with his Grandpa Arjan and uncles.
We see HIM Learning How to Skin a Rabbit and Lure an an unSusPecting Seal to his Death Among Other UNSDORY DUTIES. He Runs Errands to try and get his mother, a hitler apologist, bread, butter, sugar and other necesities all the while still wearing his hitler uniform, but not really engaged in the political aspects. We never see him project hate or toe the nazi line. It is just something Young Boys Were Exced to Wear. Actually, nanning is a good Kid, one who is bullied by older kids on amrum and accused of not being a “true amrumer” Sincer he was Born Elsewhere. His Father, Captured As A Prisoner of War, is not around, and he has to take care of his mother expecting any day, and then late in the film with a new baby boy. She is typical of these germans who were simply guided by their leader, and Became gullible to the party line, and Also bitter About the Capture of Her Husband.
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The film’s focus is on these People who live the action, Basically clueless to the holocaust and Other atrocities by germany during that will will come shame on the Country. There are Arees Powerful nononeheless Such as nanning tries to get the local baker, a veteran, to give him what little and still ha left, but before he dies he nanning recites the nazi youth Predge, Something nanning will be the refuses to g. Him the Sugar. Another scnene has hillie with her two two sons and the new baby Begging the butcher (Dirk Bohling) to Accept Her German Cash, But Now With the Official Surrender of Germany, he will only Accept American and Tourns Her Away.
Through it all akin’s cameras are Capturning everything through nanning’s eyes, and the director says his influenza are most along the lines of de sica’s The Bicycle Thief and Rob Reiner’s Stand by me. The War May Have Been Very Ugly, but amrum is a Beautiful Place to Grow Up, SEEMINGLY A MILLION MILES AS LIFE ON, The Future Unure, Its Inhabitants Search for Some Sort of Happiness, and Nanning on the Cusp of Adolescence.
Billerbeck Has Never Acted Before and Won a Blind Audition, and you can see why he was chosen. This Kid is a natural and his performance never hits or false note. Veteran German Actress Tonke Perfectly Portrays the Bitternless of the Third Reich Defeat As She She She Rectantly Burns Hitler’s Photo and Takes Down the Flag. She was a stout supperter but it has all gone away. Cinematography by Karl Walter Lindenlaub Captures the Beauty of a Place Out of Time. There is some Similary to the Oscar-Winning The Zone of Interest WHICH ALSO FOCUED ON “EVERYDAY” German Life, but that one was set with auschwitz in the background, smoke rising. In AmrumThe Horror SEEMS FAR FAR AWAY.
Consding the Far Right Extremist Nazi Party Managed to Get 12 Million Votes in the Recent German Electations, A Film Like Amrum Serves as a reminder that this is couuld open. The final shot is of an Old man peacefullly look at the Beautiful amrum ocean, spread showing the calm before a new storm.
Producers of the film Distributed by Warner Bros germany are acin and Herman Weigel.
Title: Amrum
Festival: Cannes (Premiere)
Director: Fatih Akin
Screenwriters: Fatih Akin and Hank Bohm
Cast: Jasper Billerbeck, Laura Tonke, Lise Hagmeister, Kian Koppke, Diane Kruger, Larsen, Deflev Buck, Jan Georg Schutte, Matthias Schweighofer, Tjard Nissen, Dirk Bohling, Marek Harloff
Sales Agent: Beta cinema
TIME RUNNING: 1 HR 33 MINS
