“Many will say what the shit the Akin does now, such trivial nonsense, pure fictional characters and so on. I can only say: The sun belongs to me as well as the night, the comedy belongs to me as well as the drama, laughter as well as crying, and German as well as Turkish. "The words Fatih Akin used before shooting his second feature film "In July" for his film crew now sounds like a kind of justification for the blatant change of genre he made after his debut film "Short and Painless", a tough milieu thriller. The German-Turkish directing mastermind has long since made it proved how broad his cinematic repertoire is between demanding dramatic art ("Against the Wall", "On the Other Side"), documentaries with a personal touch ("Crossing the Bridge", "The Garbage in the Garden of Eden") and relaxed feel-good cinema ( "Soul Kitchen") can actually be. When "In July" was released in 2000, the comedy, staged with a sure sense of style and lightness, already gave a first indication of the director's versatility.