- Data di nascita
- Fatih Akin è nato il 25 agosto 1973. Luogo di nascita: Amburgo, Germania Ovest. È conosciuto come regista e produttore. È celebre per aver partecipato a Oltre la notte (2017), La sposa turca (2004) e Soul Kitchen (2009). È sposato con Monique Akin dal 2004. Hanno due figli/e.
- ConiugeMonique Akin(2004 - presente) (2 bambini)
- ParentiCem Akin(Sibling)
- Two of his films were submitted for the Best Foreign Langugage Film category of The 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008): Ai confini del paradiso (2007) (as director, writer and producer) for Germany and Takva (2006) (as producer) for Turkey (September 2007).
- In 2005 Fatih Akin was a member of the Official Competition Jury at the 'Cannes International Film Festival'.
- His hobbies include boxing and appearing as 'DJ Superdjango' in clubs.
- His father worked in a dry cleaning company, his mother was an elementary school teacher.
- What I'm always trying to say is, this Turkish-German gap, you know, or this connecting element of the two nations, or systems, or worlds - you can change that and put other things instead. Mexico and the U.S., same thing.
- If you love the cinema, you have to love America.
- [on Rainer Werner Fassbinder] Comparisons with Fassbinder have followed me around since my first film, Short Sharp Shock (1998). Critics said that the character Gabriel, who emerges from prison determined never to return to crime, reminded them of Franz Biberkopf in Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980). It's funny, because I hadn't even seen the film at the time. I admire Fassbinder, but he and I work in different ways. Hanna Schygulla once told me that Fassbinder forced his actors never to deviate from the script. But in my films everyone can do as he or she wishes. I like it when actors depart from the script to find their characters. Of course, that's also why it takes me three years to make a movie. Fassbinder would have been able to turn out 10 films in that amount of time.
- Growing my audience is a target of mine. Cinema is a collective experience. Many people sit together, there's a lot of seats, and you want those seats to be filling up. I'm not that egotistic, to say, "No, I only want to do a film for me, I don't care." That's not true. For sure I do them for me, but I hope I can share it with as many people as possible.
- [on his inspirations for Il padre (2014)] Elia Kazan's Il ribelle dell'Anatolia (America America) (1963), certain aesthetics of the cinematography, as well as shooting the film in English and naturally the long voyage of the young man through the impoverished towns and villages on the way to Constantinople. (...) I had Westerns in my mind to inspire me, Sentieri selvaggi (1956) by John Ford, and also Homer's 'The Odyssey' certainly was a reference for me: The journey of the hero who tries to return to his family.
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