Overview

• Released nationwide on 9 October, the 2025 German production arrives in theaters after a festival run that included Cannes and a Hamburg premiere.
• Directed by Fatih Akin and billed as “A Hark Bohm film by Fatih Akin,” the project adapts Bohm’s autobiographical material about post‑war childhood on the North Frisian island.
• The story centers on 12‑year‑old Nanning’s effort to fulfill a simple request, a device that leads him through a community reckoning with collapsing beliefs and shifting loyalties.
• Jasper Billerbeck’s lead performance draws strong praise, with Laura Tonke, Diane Kruger, Detlev Buck and Matthias Schweighöfer appearing in key supporting roles.
• Reviews single out Karl Walter Lindenlaub’s unsentimental landscape imagery and the selective use of the local Nordfrisian dialect (Öömrang), presented with subtitles.