I was, I am, I will be

FESTIVALS AND AWARDS

EDGAR for the best Film at the HEIMAT EUROPA Filmfestspiele Hunsrück

Lola in Bronze for the best fiction film (if… Productions)

Nominations German Film Award:
Best Film (Ingo Fliess)
Best Director (Ilker Çatak)
Best Screenplay (Nils Mohl, Ilker Çatak)
Beste female leading role (Anne Ratte-Polle)
Best male supporting role (Godehard Giese)

Bavarian Film Price for Anne Ratte-Polle

Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2020

Festival des Deutschen Films Ludwigshafen: Ludwigshafener Auszeichnung

Fünf-Seen-Festival: DACHS-Drehbuchpreis (Screenplay)

Förderpreise “Neues Deutsches Kino” auf dem 37. Filmfest München
Best Acting (Ogulcan Arman Uslu)
Best Screenplay (Nils Mohl, Ilker Çatak)

 

 

SYNOPSIS

Opposite worlds collide when Baran, a Turkish gigolo meets Marion, a German pilot, on the beaches of Marmaris. In his pursuit of a better life in Europe, Baran convinces Marion to take him back to Germany, but what starts as an arrangement begins to develop into something deeper. An examination of life’s unpredictability and progression from a troubled past, to a complicated present and the hopeful promise of the future.

Infos

Co-Production with Loin derrière l’Oural (Paris), ZDF, arte
German Sales: X-Verleih
World Sales: LevelK
Financiers: FFHSH, FFF Bayern, BKM, Mini-Traité FFA, DFFF

Duration: 120min
Year: 2019

IMDB
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Original Title: Es gilt das gesprochene Wort

With

Anne Ratte-Polle
Ogulcan Arman Uslu
Godehard Giese
Jörg Schüttauf
Özgür Karadeniz
Sebastian Urzendowsky
Johanna Polley

Team

Screenplay: Nils Mohl & Ilker Çatak
Director: Ilker Çatak
Producer: Ingo Fliess
Co-Producer: Xavier Delmas
Line Producer: Ingrid Holzapfel
Line Producer Turkey: Birsin Çolakoğlu
DoP: Florian Mag
Sound: Jörn Martens
Set Design: Zazie Knepper
Costume Design: Christian Röhrs
Make Up: Barbara Kreuzer
Editor: Sascha Gerlach, Jan Ruschke
Score: Marvin Miller