Ilker Çatak wins Student Oscar in gold – Hamburger Abendblatt

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 By Volker Behrens

 A graduate of the Hamburg Media School won with his short film “Sadakat”. Now he is at the “big” Academy Awards with this

                 Hamburg. He has done it. Ilker Çatak, a graduate of the Hamburg Media School, has won with his film “Sadakat” student Oscar in gold. The 31-year-old won the category “Best Foreign Film”. He received the award in Los Angeles presented, as befits an Academy Award.

The winning film, whose title means in German loyalty or honesty, tells a very nice balanced history from political Background. He tells of a young doctor who works in a hospital in Istanbul. On the Taksim Square clash police and demonstrators. One protester flees into Krankenheus. The medical examiner hides him and helps him to escape. When she later told her husband of the horror. The police determined and represents the couple’s relationship to the test.

Çatak Beginning last year with his short film “Where we are” in the final. This time it was for the director, who was born in Berlin and grew up in Istanbul, served with gold. Fatih Akin he calls as one of his idols.

The second and third places went to German filmmaker. Dustin Loose of the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg got silver for “The Last Will”. Bronze went to Patrick Vollrath for “happily ever after”. Although he has studied at the Vienna Film Academy, but comes from Bad Grund in the Harz region.

93 film schools had applied overall to the Academy Awards. The end of August had learned that he is among the winners Çatak.

Only, what place he would occupy on the podium, he only found out on Thursday. Only in January Çatak was in the US at Palm Springs Festival. “That I would come back so quickly, I never thought,” he told the Evening Gazette in August, when he learned of his impending price. Now he can soon again travel to the United States, because of winning the Student Academy Awards automatically means taking part in the “big” Academy Awards, which are awarded in February of next year.

 (vob)