Fatih Akin’s SOUL KITCHEN Photos
Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2009 Venice Film Festival, Fatih Akin’s Soul Kitchen is a comedy set at a Hamburg restaurant inhabited by a disparate group of Hamburgese.
At IFC, Stephen Saito calls Soul Kitchen "a lark, but an enjoyable one. The film sees the director of Head On and The Edge of Heaven doing schtick for the first time — not as odd a transition as one might think from his previous dramas, which have in common a deeply felt human touch and sense of interconnection."
"As far as European comedies go," writes Michael Koresky at indieWIRE, "it’s fairly by the numbers, assembling a motley crew of emphatically crazy characters [...]
by Anna Robinson | September 15, 2009
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Tags: Adam Bousdoukos, Birol Unel, Fatih Akin, Michael Koresky, Moritz Bleibtreu, Photos, Soul Kitchen
2004 European Film Awards Winners
The German drama Gegen die Wand / Head-On was picked as the best European film at the 2004 European Film Awards ceremony in Barcelona.
Directed by Fatih Akin, voted the year’s best European director, Head-On tells the story of a young Turkish-German woman (Sibel Kekilli) who marries an older Turkish man (Birol Ünel) in order to escape her strict Muslim family. Earlier this year, Head-On won both the Golden Bear and the International Critics’ FIPRESCI prize at the Berlin Film Festival.
Additionally, the film has won five German Film Academy awards: Best film, best actor, best actress, best director, and best cinematography (Rainer Klausmann).
Spaniard Javier Bardem (above, with Belén Rueda) was chosen the year’s best actor for his [...]
by Andre Soares | December 12, 2004
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Tags: Belen Rueda, Birol Unel, European Film Academy, European Film Awards, Fatih Akin, Film Awards, Gegen die Wand, Head-On, Imelda Staunton, Javier Bardem, Liv Ullmann, Sibel Kekilli, The Sea Inside
