Berlin Film Festival: Moritz Bleibtreu

Adam Bousdoukos Dept: In Soul Kitchen , a lovelorn Greek restaurateur co-writer Adam Bousdoukos hires an eccentric new chef Birol Unel , and his floundering Hamburg bistro becomes a hot spot – until he makes his recently paroled brother Moritz Bleibtreu manager. Recently, Akin revealed some of the secret ingredients of Soul Kitchen , which is already a European hit, according to Globe And Mail. The idea was to do something where music defines the rhythm, so the whole film feels like a wild DJ set. I love all kinds of music, but Hamburg is known as a soul town, so it made sense for the film. With Head-On , I started the system of writing to music, so I know what music I’m going to use to hit the emotional level the scene needs. It’s also practical because we can calculate the music budget accurately. The other thing is, Adam had a restaurant bought after he starred in Short Sharp Shock for 10 years. At night, he would mix on two turntables and it became a club. It was the melting pot of our social life, with artists hanging around. So we wanted to put our nostalgia into a film with music and while still in college, Akin turned heads with Short Sharp Shock 1998 , about small-time immigrant gangsters. He put the pedal to the metal with Head-On , his fourth film and the first in a trilogy he calls Love, Death and the Devil . Head-On , which won the Berlin Film Festival’s top prize in 2004, tracks the volatile relationship of an alcoholic widower and a self-destructive young woman trying to escape her conservative immigrant family. After the documentary Crossing The Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul , Akin delivered The Edge of Heaven second in the trilogy , which won the Cannes best-screenplay prize in 2007. How did soul music and exotic cuisine come together? Is the restaurant based on a real place? As reported in the news.
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