The latest collaboration between writer/director Fatih Akin (In the Fade) and star Diane Kruger is the WWII-set drama Amrum. Co-written with Hark Bohm, the film sees a young farm boy come to question everything his country has lead him to believe as the war draws to a close.
Laura Tonke, Jasper Billerbeck and Lisa Hagmeister also star.
Amrum is in US cinemas from April 17th. A UK/ROI release has yet to be announced.
Check out the trailer and poster below.
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.
