The film is based on Finn-Ole Heinrich’s novel of the same name, and stars teenage actors Emil von Schönfels and Mekyas Mulugeta in the lead roles. Director Ilker Çatak, who in 2015 won the Student Oscar for his short film Fidelity, is currently working on a new feature, Räuberhände. This adaptation of the young-adult fiction novel of the same name by Finn-Ole Heinrich (the script was penned by Heinrich himself and Gabriele Simon) was honoured with the Thomas Strittmatter Prize for Screenwriting in 2018. Endowed with €20,000, in 2017, the award handed out annually by the Mfg Baden-Württemberg went to Nora Fingscheidt’s script for System Crasher, which went on to become the film that won the Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize at the 2019 Berlinale. Räuberhände will tell the story of Janik and Samuel, two teenage friends from different family backgrounds. Coming from a “perfect” family, Janick longs for some...
- 10/10/2019
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
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