Cannes 2017 | In The Fade by Fatih Akin

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The 70th Cannes Film Festival is scheduled to run from May 17-28.

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In the Fade (German: Aus dem Nichts) is an upcoming German drama film directed by Fatih Akin[1]. It has been selected to compete for the Palme d'Or in the main competition section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.


The movie will mark Kruger’s first pic in her native tongue. Set in the German-Turkish community in Hamburg, the modern-day thriller hinges on revenge. The script was written by Akin and German writer-director and film professor Hark Bohm (North Sea Is Dead Sea, Yasemin), who also collaborated with Akin on the script for his latest film, Tschick. The plot revolves around the explosion of a bomb, after which a woman takes revenge for her family. The action-packed scene of the explosion, complete with shattered glass, screaming and emergency-vehicle lights, was shot at night in the famous red-light district of St Pauli, with various firemen as extras. Since the police and fire department considered it to be too dangerous to detonate an actual bomb in the neighbourhood, the crew used special effects.

The movie is a German-French co-production, with Akin’s Bombero International partnering up with Warner Bros Film Productions Germany, Mélita Toscan du Plantier and Marie-Jeanne Pascal of Macassar Productions, Corazón International and Pathé. In Germany, the production is supported by the German Federal Film Fund, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, BKM, Film- und Medienstiftung NRW and the Federal Film Board. In the Fade will be released theatrically by Warner Bros Pictures Germany in 2017. Cologne-based The Match Factory is handling the international sales.

“Aus dem Nichts” is the follow up to Akin’s “Chiko | Why We Took the Car.”



In The Fade (2017)  
Directed, Written and Produced by: Fatih Akin 

Fatih AKIN - Script / Dialogue Hark BOHM - Script / Dialogue 

CAST: Diane KRUGER - Katja Sekerci; Denis MOSCHITTO - Danilo Fava; Johannes KRISCH - Haberbeck; Ulrich TUKUR - Jürgen Möller; Samia CHANCRIN - Birgit;  Numan ACAR - Nuri Sekerci.

CONTACTS

Production

BOMBERO INTERNATIONAL GMBH&CO KG - Borselstr. 16 D-22765 Hamburg GERMANY - T: +49.40.311.8238.33 - F: +49.40.311.8238.21 - charlotte.fiedler@bombero-int.de
WARNER BROS FILM PRODUCTIONS GERMANY - GERMANY
MACASSAR PRODUCTIONS - FRANCE
PATHÉ - FRANCE
Distribution

PATHE DISTRIBUTION - T: +33171723000 - www.pathefilms.com - samuel.golaz@pathe.com
French press

LE PUBLIC SYSTÈME CINÉMA - T: +33 (0)1 41 34 23 50 - www.lepublicsystemecinema.fr - Alexis DELAGE TORIEL - presse@lepublicsystemecinema.fr
International press

INTERNATIONAL PRESS - T: 33 (0)9 70 44 98 65 - Richard LORMAND - intlpress@aol.com
International sales



THE MATCH FACTORY - T: +49 221 539 709-0 - michael.weber@matchfactory.de

[1]

Fatih Akin is a German filmmaker of Turkish origin. He won the Golden Bear for HEAD ON in 2004 and became, at the age of 30, one of the most influential European directors. At that time he had already completed film school, two short films, one documentary about his parents’ migration from Turkey to Hamburg, and three feature films. He then achieved international success with the drama THE EDGE OF HEAVEN (2007) for which he won the prize for Best Screenplay at the Festival de Cannes. The film also received the European Film Award and the German Film Award. For his following film SOUL KITCHEN (2009) Fatih Akin was honored with the Special Prize of the Jury at the Venice Film Festival. With his production company corazón international, founded in 2004, he has produced several films alongside his own productions, including the internationally successful films CHIKO, TAKVA and MIN DÎT. Fatih Akin has been directing his films exclusively for bombero international since 2012. THE CUT was shot in 2013 in Cuba, Canada, Jordan and Germany and is the first bombero international film release. A selection of his films includes: SHORT SHARP SHOCK (1998), IN JULY (2000), HEAD-ON (2004), CROSSING THE BRIDGE – THE SOUND OF ISTANBUL (2006), THE EDGE OF HEAVEN (2007), NEW YORK, I LOVE YOU (episode, 2008), SOUL KITCHEN (2009), POLLUTING PARADISE (2012), and THE CUT (2014).

FILMOGRAPHY

BLUTZBRÜDAZ
CHIKO
Crossing the Bridge - The Sound of Istanbul
CUT, THE
EDGE OF HEAVEN, THE (AUF DER ANDEREN SEITE)
FROM CALIGARI TO HITLER (VON CALIGARI ZU HITLER)
Germany 09 (Deutschland 09)
GOODBYE BERLIN (TSCHICK)
HEAD-ON (GEGEN DIE WAND)
In July (Im Juli)
IN THE FADE (AUS DEM NICHTS)
KEBAB CONNECTION
Kismet
POLLUTING PARADISE (MÜLL IM GARTEN EDEN)
SHORT SHARP SHOCK (KURZ UND SCHMERZLOS)
Solino
SOUL KITCHEN