Im toten Winkel
In the Blind Spot

Ahmet Varlı, Çağla Yurga
Im toten Winkel | In the Blind Spot by Ayşe Polat
DEU 2023, Encounters
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Max Hemmersdorfer, Katja Bürkle, Aybi Era
Im toten Winkel | In the Blind Spot by Ayşe Polat
DEU 2023, Encounters
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Çağla Yurga
Im toten Winkel | In the Blind Spot by Ayşe Polat
DEU 2023, Encounters
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Ahmet Varlı, Muhammed Oktay, Özcan Taş, Mutallip Müjdeci
Im toten Winkel | In the Blind Spot by Ayşe Polat
DEU 2023, Encounters
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Çağla Yurga, Ahmet Varlı
Im toten Winkel | In the Blind Spot by Ayşe Polat
DEU 2023, Encounters
© Mitosfilm

Nihan Okutucu, Ahmet Varlı
Im toten Winkel | In the Blind Spot by Ayşe Polat
DEU 2023, Encounters
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Im toten Winkel | In the Blind Spot by Ayşe Polat
DEU 2023, Encounters
With
- Katja Bürkle (Simone)
- Ahmet Varlı (Zafer)
- Çağla Yurga (Melek)
- Aybi Era (Leyla)
- Maximilian Hemmersdorfer (Christian)
- Nihan Okutucu (Sibel)
- Tudan Ürper (Hatice)
- Mutallip Müjdeci (Hasan)
- Rıza Akın (Burhan)
- Aziz Çapkurt (Eyüp)
Crew
Director | Ayşe Polat |
Screenplay | Ayşe Polat |
Cinematography | Patrick Orth |
Editing | Serhad Mutlu, Jörg Volkmar |
Music | Dynamedion |
Sound | Johannes Grehl |
Production Design | Osman Özcan |
Costumes | Ece Erol |
Make-Up | Antonia Petschow |
Casting | Pinar Çelik |
Assistant Director | Yasemin Müge Manus |
Production Manager | Lea Drescher |
Producers | Mehmet Aktaş, Janna Heine |
Executive Producer | Erhan Özoğul |
Co-Producer | Ayşe Polat |
Co-Production | PunktPunktPunkt Filmproduktion, Berlin |
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Nihan Okutucu
The actor before the premiere in the Akademie der Künste.
Im toten Winkel · Encounters · Feb 19, 2023

Nihan Okutucu, Ahmet Varlı, Ayşe Polat
The actors with the director.
Im toten Winkel · Encounters · Feb 19, 2023

Ayşe Polat, Çağla Yurga
The director and the actor during Q&A.
Im toten Winkel · Encounters · Feb 19, 2023
Ayşe Polat

The German-Kurdish director, screenwriter and producer was born in Malatya, Türkiye and grew up in Hamburg, Germany. After several internationally award-winning short films, she made her debut feature film Auslandstournee in 1999. Her film En Garde won the Silver Leopard for Best Film and for Best Actress at the Locarno International Film Festival in 2004.
Filmography
1992 Fremdennacht; short film 1994 Ein Fest für Beyhan; short film 1997 Gräfin Sophia Hatun; short film 1999 Auslandstournee 2004 En Garde 2010 Luks Glück 2013 Die Erbin 2016 Die Anderen (The Others); documentary 2019 Der Staatsanwalt; series, several episodes 2020 Tatort: Masken; series, one epidode 2022 Tatort: Borowski und das unschuldige Kind von Wacken; series, one episode 2023 Im toten Winkel (In the Blind Spot)