"People are always saying we should try to understand these people who are voting AfD," Akin said, referring to the far-right Alternative for Germany party which has been accused of toying with ...

An official selection of the Cannes Film Festival in the Cannes Premieres section, Fatih Akin‘s poignant coming-of-age tale of a 12-year-old boy on a remote German island in the waning days of ...

Akin, whose parents moved from Turkey to Germany in the 1960s, added: “I would like to make a portrait of this generation who are leaving the country, and she stands for that generation.” ...

Director Fatih Akin's new movie at the Cannes film festival is about a boy learning to love his Nazi-supporting parents. Not that the Turkish-German filmmaker -- who burst onto the scene with ...

Nanning loses his job and is labeled a rat by his peers. Akin uses this early moment to establish the tension between Amrum’s long-time, working-class residents and the Nazis transplanted there ...

German director Fatih Akin had a documentary screening at the festival. Kruger had been an Akin superfan ever since his breakout Head-On — a gritty, violent love story about a young German ...

German-Turkish director Fatih Akin's new film "Amrum", which follows a Hitler Youth member on a remote German island towards the end of World War Two, is meant to hold a mirror up to German ...

Robert Arlen Blocher passed away suddenly of a heart attack on Monday, May 19, 2025, at the age of 83. He was born on November 27, 1941, the son of the late Robert and Isabel McBride Blocher of ...