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The Oscars will be awarded in Los Angeles on Monday night. Director İlker Çatak could get one with his drama “The Teacher’s Room”: The 40-year-old director’s film “The Teacher’s Room”, which was largely shot in Hamburg, is nominated for best international film.
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Film fans will keep their fingers crossed on Monday night when the Oscars are presented in Hollywood for the 96th time. The approximately 9,000 members of the Film Academy have completed their vote on the winners in the 23 Oscar categories. Among the nominees in the best international film category is director Ílker Çatak, who was born in Berlin and grew up partly in Turkey. As he told NDR Kultur during the Berlinale, where he served as a short film juror, the 40-year-old has barely spent more than three weeks at home since the nomination. An Oscar campaign like this involves a lot of “time expenditure, a lot of traveling, handshaking and socializing.” He also went into the award ceremony with “exactly zero expectations,” said the director in an interview with the German Press Agency. “It’s really crazy to be there when you think about where we started from.”
“The Teacher’s Room”: Award-winning film with success at the box office
His drama, which won five German film awards, is about a teacher who wants to solve a series of thefts at school. She has to watch as the principal conducts a kind of raid on her classroom. A boy of Turkish origin is wrongly suspected. The script was written by Çatak and his friend from school days, Johannes Duncker. The main actress is the Hamburg-born actress Leonie Benesch. A large part of the film team is already in Los Angeles, including producer Ingo Fliess, who said in an interview at the Berlinale that his production company had briefly become a kind of “travel agency”.
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More than 270,000 cinema tickets have been sold nationwide for “The Teacher’s Room”, the drama also had a film release in other European countries and even a distribution in the USA. After the Berlinale, Çatak criticized German media for ignorance and exclusion, for example his name was hardly mentioned or was misspelled. He received “an overwhelming amount of positive feedback, very moving emails and messages from people with a migration background who have experienced similar and much worse exclusions.”
Wim Wenders and Çatak: Fingers crossed for each other
In addition to the nomination of the German film “The Teacher’s Room”, Wim Wenders’ film “Perfect Days” is also nominated for Japan. In an interview with NDR Kultur, director Çatak said that he was keeping his fingers crossed for the 78-year-old Wenders. “I would wish it for him from the bottom of my heart because he is just not only a great filmmaker but a generous person who lobbied for my film even though he has a film of his own. I would really wish for him to win. “
Directors Wenders, Jonathan Glazer and Matteo Garrone, who were also nominated in the best international film category, are “people whose films I grew up with.” Wenders also said in the dpa interview: “İlker is a great guy and a great director and I really like the film. I’m happy that they’ve come this far, they’re happy that we’ve come this far and we’re pushing Fingers crossed, I would say,” said Wenders. Its meditative film tells the story of a man named Hirayama (Koji Yakusho), who cleans particularly beautifully designed toilets in Tokyo and is satisfied with his simple life.
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Sandra Hülser nominated for best actress for “The Zone of Interest”.
The 45-year-old actress Sandra Hülser is at the Oscar gala with two films – and has already made Oscar history. The Thuringian native is now hoping for her first Oscar. She is nominated for her role as a writer under suspicion of murder in the legal drama “Anatomy of a Case” by the French Justine Triet. The Cannes winning film is nominated for five Oscars, including best film. In the best female lead actress category, she is now competing with Lily Gladstone (“Killers of the Flower Moon”), Cary Mulligan (“Maestro”), Emma Stone (“Poor Things”) and Annette Bening (“Nyad”). She also plays the leading role in the concentration camp drama “The Zone of Interest” by the British Jonathan Glazer as Hedwig Höß, wife of the concentration camp commander Rudolf Höß. Like “Anatomy of a Case”, this is also nominated for five Oscars, including in the premier class for best film. It is considered the favorite in the category in which Wenders and Çatak are nominated: best international film.
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