Tarek Ehlail
| Tarek Ehlial | |
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 Tarek Ehlial working at a film set | |
| Born |
31 August 1981 Homburg, Germany |
| Occupation | Film director, film producer, screenwriter |
Tarek Ehlail (born 31 August 1981 in Homburg, Germany) is a German film director, screenwriter and film producer.
Life
Ehlail, son of a Palestinian father and German mother, became as teenager a punk[1] and worked for about 10 years as body piercer.[2] In 2003 he started the production company Sabotakt which produced mainly special underground projects and independent films.[3] Together with Matthias Lange Ehlail found the first German 'Punkfightclub', the Sabotakt Boxparty, a punk and martial arts event which toured through Europe.[4]
Work
In 2008 Tarek Ehlail produced together with Matthias Lange his debut film Chaostage - We are Punks! starring Ben Becker, Martin Semmelrogge, Ralf Richter, Stipe Erceg, Claude-Oliver Rudolph, Helge Schneider and Uwe Fellensiek. The Saarlandmedien supported 2009 his cinema film Gegengerade – Niemand siegt am Millerntor about the FC St. Pauli. The film cast included Mario Adorf, Moritz Bleibtreu and Fabian Busch[5][6] and was selected into the competition at the 'Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis' in 2011.[7] In 2011 and 2012 the documentaries Alles in Allem about a tour of the electro band Egotronic and GLAUBENSKRIEGER about the annual Internationalen Soldatenwallfahrt to Lourdes were produced by Ehlail.
In March 2013 Ehlail published his first book Piercing is not a crime (Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf publisher). The book tells 33 anecdotes from the time when Ehlail worked as tattoo artist. The book cover shows him together with the tattoo model Lexy Hell.[8]
Ehlails movie Volt, a science fiction drama, is filmed 2015 as German-French co-production by augenschein-Filmproduktion and Les Films D’Antoine around Cologne and supported by the German Federal Film Board.[9] The cast includes Ayọ (Joy Ogunmakin), Benno Fürmann, Denis Moschitto and Stipe Erceg.[10]
Filmography (selection)
Films
- Chaostage – We Are Punks! (2007/2008)
- Gegengerade – Niemand siegt am Millerntor (2011)
- Volt (2015, in production)
Documentaries
- Don´t panic it´s only war … (2003)
- Bonobo - Die Sabotakt Reise um die Welt (2004)
- Deutschlands Golden Boy (story of German boxer René Weller, 2005)
- Alles in Allem Egotronic Tourfilm (2011)
- GLAUBENSKRIEGER (2013)
Music videos
- Produzenten der Froide: R´n R Schwindel (2008)
- Nyze feat. Bushido (2009)
- D-Bo: Frust (2009)
- Nyze: Easy (2009)
- D-Bo: Diskothek (2009)
- Kay One: Ich brech die Herzen (2010)
- Slime: Gewinnen werden immer wir (2010)
- Egotronic: Hamburg soll brennen (2010)
- Johnny Mauser: Die Mauer (2013)
References
- ↑ "Tarek Ehlail: Alles ist erlaubt". 11 Freunde. 16 February 2011. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
- ↑ Beate Krause (19 April 2013). "Ich habe Männer beim Ohrlochstechen weinen sehen". Bild. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
- ↑ "Sabotakt - Tarek Ehlail". sabotakt.com.
- ↑ "Tarek Ehlail - filmportal.de". filmportal.de.
- ↑ Volker Behrens (31 March 2011). "Gegengerade: Glaube, Liebe, Leinwand". Hamburger Abendblatt. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
- ↑ Volker Behrens (30 March 2011). "'Gegengerade' verkommt zum Namedropping-Spiel". Die Welt. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
- ↑ "directory: Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis/saarbrücken 2011 - Nominierungen und Gewinner". zelluloid.de. 28 November 2015.
- ↑ "PIERCING IS NOT A CRIME". Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag.
- ↑ "FFA Filmförderungsanstalt - 2015". ffa.de.
- ↑ "VOLT - augenschein Filmproduktion". Augenschein-filmproduktion.de. Retrieved 2015-11-28.