Germany - Türkiye's director Fatih Akin made his Amrum debut at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday type.
The documentary follows Turkish singer-songwriter Gaye Su Akyol on his latest album in Berlin. Akin said Iggy Pop was a fan of her music, and like 1970s pop music, found a creative refuge in the city.
"In this country has become a misogynist society, she has to leave Turkey after she is struggling with her lyrics," Akin explained. "In the past five to six years, nearly 250,000 Turks, educated people, have left Turkey - doctors, scientists, you know. The brain loss is huge."
Akin's parents moved to Germany from Turkey in the 1960s and added: "I want to portray the portraits of this generation leaving the country, and she represents that representation."
"Ghost" is based on Ruth Toma's script, and Akin is currently rewriting it. He refers to his 2022 gangster movie, and he said, “It’s a love story for the audience.” “It’s a huge success in Germany and we’ve got the audience into the word “multi-word”. These people are people with a certain background, mostly from the Middle East, and they found the cinema with this movie. And, a little like, ‘Well, if they like gangsters, then what about I give them a love story?
"Amrum" is scheduled to be on the island of Amrum, Germany in 1945, where 12-year-old Naning (a refugee from the residence where the bombs were blown up by Hamburg) discovered a rural idyllic poem. He learned to hunt, fish, dig potatoes and collect honey, but gradually, he also learned the truth about his parents, both of Hitler's followers, which would lead him to expel him from this paradise.
As far as the subject of losing innocence is concerned, Akin is in some way influenced by reading John Milton's poem Paradise Lost, but photographically he draws inspiration from Vittorio de Sica's "Bike Thief" and "shoeshine" and "shoeshine" and "shoeshine" and "rob Reiner and Rob Reiner" in the "positions" of Rob Reiner.
The film is based on childhood memories of German filmmaker Hark Bohm, who wrote the original script and was then rewritten by Akin.
One of the elements that is as attractive as Bohm's story is the relationship between the child and the parents when parents have extreme political views. "You can't choose parents, so you have this child here, he loves his mother, his mother is a Nazi, she has this mother, she is a Nazi, she loves this child. I don't want to create empathy for the Nazis, that's not my purpose, but I don't like this love at all.
He said the latest rise to Germany's far right was one of the reasons Akin took the project, and the far-right alternative to German parties quickly gained strength. "JD Vance can say what he wants, but it's an extreme party. If you have 10 million people voting for them, that doesn't mean you have to respect them or give them space, fuck.
He described “Amrum” as a journey into the depths of his “German soul” and said he was willing to fight to defend his country’s values, including freedom of speech. “There are these values around the world and in Germany, and I am not only a filmmaker, but also as a member of that society, and I have to defend my German soul.”