Film
The Sound of Istanbul

Fatih Akin Summer Cinema

Thu, 07/12/2018
6:00 PM Goethe-Institut Chicago

Director: Fatih Akin, Farbe, 91 Min., 2005, With English subtitles

Documentary film about Istanbul's music scene.
Alexander Hacke, bassist of "Einstürzende Neubauten", and director Fatih Akin go to the streets of Istanbul well equipped with microphone and camera to capture the sound there. The journey begins at the Bogazici Körprüsü, the famous Bosporus Bridge; it leads them through the crowd of the streets to the rapper Ceza, to Orhan Gencebay, the master of the Saz, and to the Diva Sezen Aksu. They also meet street musicians and the Kurdish singer Aynur.
A musical portrait of a pulsating city where orient and occident seem to merge.

, 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.