Overview
Daniel’s drab existence as a physics teacher takes an adventurous turn when he falls in love with a Turkish girl named Melek. He spontaneously decides to follow her to Instanbul by car. On the road across Europe, he picks up his free-spirited friend Juli, who is secretly in love with him.
Fun facts
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Awards
Won the Tromsø International Film Festival's audience award (2001)
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Filming locations
Filmed in Istanbul
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Setting
Set in Hamburg and Istanbul
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Pierre Aïm
Details
- Director
- Writer
- Fatih AkinScreenplay
- Original title
- Im Juli
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- August 23, 2000
- Original language
- German
- Countries
- Germany, Turkey
Production
Cast
Moritz BleibtreuDaniel Bannier
Christiane PaulJuli
Mehmet KurtuluşIsa
İdil ÜnerMelek
Branka KatićLuna
Fatih AkinRumänischer Grenzbeamter- Dylan GrayUngarischer Grenzbeamter
Jochen NickelLeo
Cem AkinTürkischer Grenzbeamter
Sandra BorgmannMarion
Birol ÜnelClub Doyen
Ernest HausmannKodjo
Gábor SalingerMarktverkäufer- Nina LauterbachKira
- Linda WagenerAnette
- Julia BährePartymieze
- Eleftherios KokotosGitarrenspieler
Monika DahlbergFrau an der Rezeption- Gerhard PolacekWirt 'Donauweibchen'
Torsten HammannTrucker
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