Fatih Akin's ravishing, poetic and illuminating film with a stellar performance by Laura Tonke.
When a serene, poetic and in some respects distinctly northern German film both receives rave reviews at its premiere in Cannes and goes on to win the Bavarian Film Award, one should take note—and head straight to the cinema! The movie focusses on twelve-year-old Nanning who encounters the changes occurring in the final phase of the Second World War with a striking combination of naivety and obstinacy. Above all, he is keen to please his mother. "Amrum features gorgeous landscape and nature photography by Karl Walter Lindenlaub (Independence Day). Images of the sun setting on the tidal flat, the wind in the dunes, beatles on blades of grass, aquatic birds on the beach and the colours of the majestic sky lend the film a profound radiance." kinozeit
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