AMRUN Trailer: Diane Kruger Stars in Fatih Akin’s WWII Coming-Of-Age Drama
Nearly a decade after collaborating on the harrowing drama In The Fade, director Fatih Akin and star Diane Kruger are back together for Amrun, a coming-of-age tale set during the final days of World War II. Co-written with Hark Bohm based on his childhood, it follows a young boy growing up on the titular island off the coast of Germany as he tries to provide for his family and reckon with his familial ties, while Nazi rule begins to wane. It also stars Laura Tonke, Jasper Billerbeck, Detlev Buck, Lisa Hagmeister, and Matthias Schweighöfer. It premiered at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. Kino Lorber, fresh off its Best Documentary Feature Oscar win for Mr. Nobody Against Putin, will release it at NYC’s Quad Cinema on April 17 and Los Angeles’ Laemmle Royal on April 24, before expanding.
As the official synopsis reads:
A tender coming-of-age tale about the loss of innocence in the waning days of WWII: it is the Spring of 1945 on the German island of Amrum, where 12-year-old Nanning spends his days working the farm and his nights fishing. Despite the hardship, life on the windswept isle seems idyllic. When farmer Tessa (Diane Kruger) mentions to Nanning that the war will soon be over, the boy—too young to understand the political implications—is pleased to imagine that his Nazi officer father might soon be coming home. But word of Germany’s imminent defeat sends his mother into decline, and as Nanning looks to his community for support, he learns that the true enemy is far closer than he imagined.
Watch the U.S. trailer and poster below.
