Tarek Ehlail

Tarek Ehlial
Tarek Ehlial in 2018
Born (1981-08-31) 31 August 1981 (age 43)
Homburg, Germany
Occupation(s)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 [de] 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 [de] (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

  1. ^ "Tarek Ehlail: Alles ist erlaubt". 11 Freunde. 16 February 2011. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
  2. ^ Beate Krause (19 April 2013). "Ich habe Männer beim Ohrlochstechen weinen sehen". Bild. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
  3. ^ "Sabotakt - Tarek Ehlail". sabotakt.com.
  4. ^ "Tarek Ehlail - filmportal.de". filmportal.de.
  5. ^ Volker Behrens (31 March 2011). "Gegengerade: Glaube, Liebe, Leinwand". Hamburger Abendblatt. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
  6. ^ Volker Behrens (30 March 2011). "'Gegengerade' verkommt zum Namedropping-Spiel". Die Welt. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
  7. ^ "directory: Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis/saarbrücken 2011 - Nominierungen und Gewinner". zelluloid.de. 28 November 2015.
  8. ^ "PIERCING IS NOT A CRIME". Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag.
  9. ^ "FFA Filmförderungsanstalt - 2015". ffa.de.
  10. ^ "VOLT - augenschein Filmproduktion". Augenschein-filmproduktion.de. Retrieved 2015-11-28.