Film
Solino

Fatih Akin Summer Cinema

Thu, 07/05/2018
6:00 PM Goethe-Institut Chicago

Director: Fatih Akin, Color, 124 Minutes, 2002, German with English subtitles

How pizza and pasta came to the Ruhr area: 1964, with the Amato family from Puglia. In the course of the first wave of migration to the economic wonderland Germany, the Amatos end up in Duisburg. In picturesque and nostalgic images, Fatih Akin creates a family epic that covers a period of 20 years, about homesickness and growing up, about professional success and private misfortune. At its core, however, is a fraternal strife drama typical of Akin.

Fatih Akin, born in Hamburg in 1973 as the son of Turkish immigrants, belongs to the first generation of immigrant children. He brought their perspective to German cinema and surprised with his first two feature films "Short and Painless" (1998) and "In July'" (2000). Akin told stories from his personal experience and played with the genre patterns of gangster film and romance. Thus he found an idiosyncratic mix of author- and genre cinema.