Akif Film
Berry Spitsberg
Born in Bad Hersfeld, Germany in 1987, he grew up in the German city of Hagen. He studied at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne with a focus on film and literature and is a fellow of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation. He currently lives and works in Cologne.
The title of the movie is a comment on our way of discussing it.
Absolutely. The movie is also about something like a burned Koran. It's a symbol that is read differently by everyone. We are not in a position to talk about the same thing in a purely logical, factual or unemotional way. That leads to hysteria. Hysteria is when everyone is right. This can be seen time and time again in current issues such as the Gaza war. I am very sensitive to the issue of the burning of the Koran. When it came to the Mohammed caricatures in Denmark, I actively took part in the demonstrations against them. For me, it wasn't about insulting the prophet; it was about the colonialist view from the outside that considers something to be wrong or right. The movie is also about this aspect, using the example of the burning of the Koran.
Did you have an open ending from the beginning?
Yes, I asked myself how I should resolve the story and whether I should clearly assign responsibility. The reactions during the test screenings were different, and I came to the conclusion that it doesn't matter exactly who did what in the end. Everyone is equally responsible; everyone is equally involved. That is my comment on the emotional discourse that we are currently having in public, regardless of the topic.
Fire is a powerful symbol, but it is also ambiguous.
It destroys, but it can also have a liberating effect. After a fire, there can be a new beginning, and it can have a cleansing function. But there is also a lot of pain associated with it. I see both perspectives. I am fascinated by the idea that fire has a cleansing power. But that's basically not true. Fire destroys what we seem incapable of changing or resolving. If we, as a society, don't manage to talk sensibly about certain things, we descend into hysteria, into a rage of destruction.
Despite the seriousness of the subject matter, you avoid melodrama and pathos.
That was very important to me. I also decided to remove the music from the final scene in order to remain more neutral. For me, the movie has an optimistic ending. Hope remains. There is a bang, but that's normal. There are always bangs in the world, but we have to learn from them. The viewer may be frightened by the events; they can believe it was a bad dream. The main thing is that they feel the desire to behave differently from the characters.
How did you put your cast together?
The biggest challenge was finding the main character. I wasn't sure whether I should cast a white person and thus break out of my own world of Muslims. But I realised that it wouldn't work. It had to be a character who was closer to me. Elif, played by Devrim Lingnau, is an invisible migrant, as she has one Turkish parent but doesn't stand out, as such. Devrim exceeded my expectations right from the start. With the other roles, it was clear early on who was going to play them and that the actors themselves had to have a migrant background. There's nothing worse than deliberately making an actor speak bad German.
What were the most important aspects of the aesthetic concept?
I tried to use elements of a suspense film. This concerns the structure of the film, for example, which is set up like a crime-thriller. Things disappear, there are suspects, and assumptions are made. You wonder who is right and who is wrong. The rapid editing was also intended to be reminiscent of a crime-thriller.
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Hello ,
This guy was the best model in his country and second place in the world few years ago . This is how he start , like a model . A good one actually . Ppl from acting saw him ... and he begin to act in serials . To them is different ...because even if he played in 6 films ... that means a lot like period of time . for example he worked even 3 years just to make one serial . :)
and he filmed another one in 2014 and after the latest news seams he will begin another serial soon .
Welcome , JA :)
Is true that he's a very good looking guy and a very tall one ( 1,90 cm ) and the producers are always show this in much of mehmet scenes , but he knows how to act . even when he's in love , even when he's a bad boy.
I really enjoyed you post . Those pictures and gifs with him are amazing . Thanks so much that you share it with us :)
Gostaramos de saber se ele tem compromisso com algum. Sou administradora de um grupo e preciso saber pra Passar a informao.
Ele um excelente ator. Est atuando como Boran em Sila e estou me apaixonando pela trama. Um contedo rico em informao e Cultura.
Obrigada.
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O que sei sobre ele que sua carreira artstica se divide em antes e depois de Sila! Que ele vive intensamente os seus personagens! Que apesar de sua pouca atuao todas as sries so muito boas pois j vi todas elas! Que j foi o melhor modelo da Turquia e do Mundo tambm! Que foi o que desfilou as principais grifes como adidas, nike, puma, lacoste, armani, etc...
Tambm que estava com um novo projeto pra comear agora em 2016 em que ele faria o papel de um gangster mafioso, mas que repentinamente resolveu encerrar sua carreira artstica definitivamente! Tambm que j morava h dois anos em uma fazenda na Turquia e, que agora tambm comprou uma fazenda no Brasil e, pretende se mudar pra morar aqui! No se sabe aonde fica essa fazenda, mas, pelas minhas investigaes e, atravs de algumas fotos desse local com ele l, penso que seja em algum lugar de Mato Grosso! Tambm que ele milionrio, pois ganhou sempre muito dinheiro com seus trabalhos, tanto de modelo quanto de ator! Que j de famlia rica, conservadora e muito tradicional da Turquia! Que muito exigente consigo mesmo e com os outros! Que muito machista com as mulheres! Que a mulher ideal pra ser sua eposa tem que ser: pura, inocente, fina, educada, inteligente, doce, meiga, feminina, bonita, obediente, cordata, enfim om que ele quer mesmo uma Dilyar pra ele assim como o sulto Fatih que ele interpretou! Bem, no resumo da pera isso a meninas!
Mehmet Akif Alakurt es un extraordinario actor, gran profesional,y su carrera como modelo ha sido exitosa, El ha logrado, en breve tiempo llegar mas all de la cpula del xito de lo que podamos pensar o creer,El se ha realizado con su trabajo en "Sila,Cautiva de Amor" dejando en nuestros corazones una inolvidable emocin, por siempre,eso es insuperable por muchos actores que hemos visto, Mehmet Akif Alakurt es nico, no solo es bello como sabemos, es precioso, inteligente, sensible, altruista y de un corazn del tamao del Ocano......Su trayectoria es imborrable, espero que su factura actoral( impecable,seguro,apasionado, entregado totalmente, con un trabajo corporal de actuacin nico, nos recuerda: Trabajos del Actor Sobre si mismo, DE Stanislasvki)sirva de ctedra para aquellos que quieran actuar, aunque es imposible ser igual a El....Gracias por esta espectaculares publicaciones, de lujo.
Felidae is a 1994 German adult animated mystery film directed by Michael Schaack, written by Martin Kluger, Stefaan Schieder and Akif Pirinci, and based on Pirinci's 1989 novel of the same name. Produced by Trickompany, the film features the voices of Ulrich Tukur, Mario Adorf and Klaus Maria Brandauer. The story centers on domestic house cat Francis and the grisly feline murders taking place in his new neighborhood.[2]
Francis, an intelligent and cynical cat, moves into a gloomy, dilapidated house with his owner, Gustav Lbel, a romance writer and archeologist. The top floor of the house gives off a mysterious and distinctly chemical odor. During Francis' exploratory tour of the house, he discovers the body of a cat who was killed by a bite to the neck. At the crime scene, he meets and befriends Bluebeard, a foul-mouthed, one-eyed, and mutilated Maine Coon. Soon, Francis discovers another body and the fact that his house's top floor is the meeting site of a sect of cats led by Joker. The members of Joker's sect worship an entity named Claudandus and perform ritualistic suicide by throwing themselves into an electric current. When Francis' cover is blown, he is chased by the sect members through the city's rooftops. He escapes through a skylight and meets a blind cat named Felicity, who supplies Francis with information on the Claudandus sect.
The next day, Bluebeard takes Francis to Pascal, an elderly and tech-savvy cat who has taken to meticulously maintaining a list of feline deaths in the area, through which Francis learns that Felicity is the latest victim. That night, Francis is haunted by a nightmare in which the famous friar and geneticist Gregor Mendel leaves him with riddles. During a rodent hunt, Francis discovers a video recording that documents the top floor's previous use as an experimental laboratory. This laboratory was devoted to the research/development of a fibrin glue and tissue adhesive that would close wounds in an instant. The test subjects largely consisted of stray cats that, more often than not, died in agony as a result of the failed test runs. The one cat who survived the experiments was christened by the lab's technicians as "Claudandus", Latin for "He who should or must be sealed". However, Claudandus eventually murdered the project's alcoholic and increasingly unhinged lead technician Dr. Preterius, leading to the escape of the other strays and closure of the lab. Claudandus would subsequently become a legendary martyr figure revered by the modern-day sect.
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