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Movies starring Fatih Akin have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 71%.
The Experiment - released in 2001 - is Fatih Akin's highest rated movie, with a score of 71% based on 24 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Fatih Akin is The Experiment - released in 2001 - with a score of 71% based on 24 reviews.
Fatih Akin (Turkish: Fatih Akin, born August 25, 1973) is a German film director, screenwriter and producer of Turkish descent. Feeling he has won numerous awards for films, including the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival feeling for the movie head-on (2004), feeling for The edge of heaven Best Screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival movie (2007), and the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film for the feeling to fade in the movie (2017).
Akin was born in Hamburg to Turkish parents. He has one brother, Cem Akın, who works now as an actor. He attended the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg to study visual communications and graduated in 2000.
Influx has been married to German-Mexican actress Monique obermul since 2004. The couple live in Hamburg-Altona, very close to where he was raised. They have two children.
Made me feel Akin their debut as director of a full length film as early as 1998 with short sharp Shock (Kurz und schmerzlos), which brought him the "Bronze Leopard" award at Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland and the "Pierrot", the Bavarian Film Award for best new director in Munich the same year. Since then he has directed feature films such as July (Im Juli) in 2000, we have to go back (wir haben vergessen the zuruckzukehre) in 2001 and Solino in 2002.
Feeling the fourth movie, Head-On (gegen die Wand) directed, Sibel Kekilli, was a major success in 2004 and received several prizes, among them the Golden Bear award at the Berlin Film Festival and "Best Film" and "Audience Award" at the 2004 European Film Awards.
In 2005, he directed a documentary about Istanbul music scene, crossing the bridge: the sound of Istanbul, which includes musicians such as Punishment, Sezen Aksu, Aynur Doğan and Brenna MacCrimmon. It is narrated by a member of a German experimental band in einsturze Neubauten, Alexander Hacke, who also produced music for head-on.
In 2007, Akın's the edge of heaven, a German-Turkish cross-cultural tale of loss, mourning and forgiveness, won for Best Screenplay at the 60th Cannes Film Festival 2007 in the outlet. 24 October 2007 the first edition of the same film was awarded ten outlet for Lux European cinema by the European Parliament.
About the comedy Soul Kitchen (2009) he has said he chose this more light-hearted film because he needed a break after making the "tough" films head-on and feeling the edge of Heaven, The Devil before making the next planned film. "But", he says, "now I feel ready to finish the trilogy".
In 2012, his documentary film in the Special Screenings section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival was the balconies Polluting Paradise.
Film 2014 has been selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the cut feeling the 71st Venice International Film Festival.
In 2017, the fade in his film was selected to compete for the Palme d'or at the Cannes Film Festival main competition section of 2017. That year at Cannes, Diane Kruger won the Best Actress award. The film was subsequently selected as the German entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards, making the shortlist in December. The Fade won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film.
Fatih Akin has acted in films with Moritz Bleibtreu, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Heiner Lauterbach and Christian Berkel.
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