Im Juli

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Im Juli.
German DVD cover
Directed by	Fatih Akın
Starring	Moritz Bleibtreu, Christiane Paul
Distributed by	Koch-Lorber Films
Release date(s)	2000
Country	Germany
Language	German
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Im Juli. (English: In July) is a 2000 German road movie directed by Fatih Akın and starring Moritz Bleibtreu and Christiane Paul. The film takes place in July, 1999, and features a solar eclipse, which actually took place on August 11,1999.

1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Crew
4 Trivia
5 Awards and recognition
6 External links

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

At the beginning of his summer holiday, a somewhat naïve trainee teacher Daniel (Moritz Bleibtreu) buys a ring from a stall run by Juli (Christiane Paul).The ring bears a Mayan sun symbol, which, according to Juli, has the power to lead him to the woman of his dreams, whom he will recognise by a similar sun symbol. As Juli has the ring's counterpart, and as she has fallen in love with him, she invites Daniel to a party that evening, in the hope that they will meet.

Curious, Daniel goes to the party and meets Melek (İdil Üner), who is wearing a T-shirt imprinted with a sun symbol. Convinced that she is the woman of his dreams, Daniel talks to her. Melek is only passing through and looking for a place to spend the night. After spending some time together seeing the sights of Hamburg, Daniel invites her to spend the night in his apartment.

Daniel and Melek left the party just as Juli arrived. She saw them leave together. In her disappointment, she decides to leave town. Next day she goes to the Autobahn to hitch a ride, with no predetermined destination.

As fate would have it, Daniel is the first car to stop, on his way back from the airport, where he had dropped Melek off. He has decided to drive to Istanbul in search of Melek, who, he knows, will be under the bridge over the Bosporus a few days later. Juli convinces Daniel to take her with him in his neighbour's rusty old car. And so begins a long and exciting trip across Eastern Europe.

[edit] Cast

The English version of the poster, also used for the DVD cover.

Moritz Bleibtreu: Daniel Bannier
Christiane Paul: Juli
İdil Üner: Melek
Mehmet Kurtuluş: İsa
Jochen Nickel: Leo
Branka Katic: Luna
Birol Ünel: Club Doyen
Sandra Borgmann: Marion
Ernest Hausmann: Kodjo, Daniel's neighbour
Gábor Salinger: Man in Hungarian market
Cem Akın: Turkish border guard
Fatih Akın: Romanian border guard
Sándor Badár: Alin
Dylan Gray: Hungarian border guard

[edit] Crew

Direction: Fatih Akın
Script: Fatih Akın

[edit] Trivia

The sequence of the film when Daniel and Juli travel through Romania is made up of a series of still photos, since the production team was not able to obtain the required authorisations to film in Romania.