Name: Amrum
Genre: Drama
Released: 2025
Duration: 1 h 33 min
Rating: 6.5

Critic David Opie

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Fatih Akin’s latest film isn’t really a Fatih Akin film at all. Rather, it is “a Hark Bohm Film by Fatih Akin.”

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Critic Rodrigo Perez

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...a subtly touching film that never begs to be called tender.

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Critic Eli Friedberg

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...a humble monument to the capacity for generational change.

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Critic Guilherme Quireza

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Fatih Akin’s visually beautiful wartime drama, Amrum, turns a child’s survival into a memory handed from one talented filmmaker to another.

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Florian Wendorff

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The end of World War II seen through the eyes of a child. Bombs are eploding in the distance, members of the Hitler Youth are forced to repeat their slogans and a young boy tries to get white bread with butter and honey for his mother who is depre...

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Critic Clint Worthington

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...feels in conversation with, of all things, Taika Waititi’s “JoJo Rabbit“; both are coming-of-age stories about little Nazi boys in the waning days of the Reich...

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Critic Oscar Westerholm

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...skildringen av hur nazismens obarmhärtiga ideologi smyger sig in i vardagen träffar hårt.

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Critic Rosemari Södergren

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Genom att skildra livet på en litet ö fångar regissören det stora genom det lilla livet.

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Critic Nina Asarnoj

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...både en moraliskt uppfordrande och sjösjukeframkallande skönhetsupplevelse i ett.

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Critic Kerstin Gezelius

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En liten pojke slits mellan kärlek till modern och nazismens skuld i en ren berättelse med sagokaraktär och ett starkt budskap till samtiden.

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