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In July (Im Juli)
His students thumb their noses at him, the barkeepers ignore him in all of the hip joints he frequents and even his permanently spaced out neighbor has a better social life: how square can you get? Daniel, a young physics teacher wouldn't see happiness if it hit him in the face! But his drab existence as a teacher is about to change... he falls head over heals in love with a beautiful girl called Melek, and spontaneously decides to follow her to Istanbul. Daniel sets out for the long trip from Hamburg to Istanbul together with his crazy friend July, who sells jewelry and has always secretly worshipped Daniel. On this wild odyssey through south-eastern Europe he will discover a new self. He is beaten up, seduced, robbed, for the first time on drugs and busted by Turkish border guards, yet Daniel learns to fight for his happiness. And after this long journey he realizes that the laws of physics don't always apply in the real world ...
Fatih Akin was born in 1973 in Hamburg and began studying Visual Communications at Hamburg's College of Fine Arts in 1994. In 1995, he wrote and directed his first short feature, Sensin - You're The One! (Sensin - Du bist es!), which received the Audience Award at the Hamburg International Short Film Festival, followed by Weed (Getuerkt, 1996). His first full length feature film, Short Sharp Shock (Kurz und schmerzlos, 1998), won the Bronze Leopard at Locarno and the Bavarian Film Award (Best Young Director) in 1998. His other films include: In July (Im Juli, 2000), Wir haben vergessen zurueckzukehren (2001), Solino (2002), the Berlinale Golden Bear-winner and winner of the German and European Film Awards Head-On (Gegen die Wand, 2004), Crossing the Bridge - The Sound of Istanbul (2005), The Edge of Heaven (Auf der anderen Seite, 2007), and Soul Kitchen (2009).Category Feature Film Cinema
Year of Production 2000
Director Fatih Akin
Screenplay Pierre Aim
Editor Andrew Bird
Music by Ulrich Kodjo Wendt
Producers Stefan Schubert, Ralph Schwingel
Production Company Wueste Film/Hamburg
Principal Cast Moritz Bleibtreu, Mehmet Kurtulus, Christiane Paul
Length 100 min, 2,750 m
Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85
Original Version German
Subtitled Versions English, French
Sound Technology Dolby Digital
Festival Screenings Rotterdam 2001, Gothenburg 2001, Berlin 2001 (New German Films), Cairo 2003, Sofia 2008 (Retrospective), Gijon 2009
With backing from German Federal Film Board (FFA), FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, FilmFoerderung Hamburg
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