Die Liebenden vom Hotel von Osman

• Idil Üner as Ili
• Fatih Akın as Ahmet
• Gursel Erdoğan as Osman
• Cihan ATILGAN as Ismail
• Kubilay Sarıkaya as a police officer
• Gürol Yavuz as a police officer

The Lovers from the hotel by Osman ( Osman ' in Otelindeki Asiklar ) is a German short film from İdil Üner of 2001, she filmed and Fatih Akın in the leading roles, at its screenplay with him. The comedy was awarded the German Short Film Award.

Action

The couple Ahmet and Ili from Hamburg spends his holidays in Turkey. In Istanbul hotel will also be made ​​as a married couple, as the conservative owner could have moral reservations against unmarried couples Turkish. In fact, this is quite suspicious. Although the two get a room, but the hotel owner makes the same two police officers at the couple carefully to make sure that he has not made ​​as coupler guilty. As Ili realize that you will listen to it, it provokes a nagging loud argument with her boyfriend, who in turn also fully goes on. The police pull calmed from: This couple may only be a couple.

Reviews

The editors of prism described the film as " staged with spirited wit ," the " very living history " thematize " the conflicts of young German Turks".

Awards

The film received the 2001 German Short Film Award in Gold, the production manager of the film Tobias Büchner 2002 Friedrich- Wilhelm -Murnau- Price and the director on the Huesca Film Festival the Special Jury Prize. In addition, the film at the Max Ophüls Festival was nominated as " Best Short Film ".