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.
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