Breaking Baz: ‘The Teachers’ Lounge’ Filmmaker Ilker Çatak Wraps His Next Movie ‘Yellow Letters’, Shot Under A Cloak Of Secrecy
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Ilker Çatak, whose The Teachers’ Lounge was nominated for an Oscar as Germany’s International Feature Film submission, completed shooting his new film Yellow Letters in Hamburg on Wednesday night, the production’s producer Ingo Fliess has revealed to Deadline.
Yellow Letters was filmed under strict security precautions because of what Fliess referred to as the film’s cultural and political “sensitive nature,” adding that “I want to protect my actors and crew, and I want to protect our working situation.” But now with the film being shot and everyone leaving town today [Thursday], “I think we can just open the doors a bit wider,” Fliess said during a break from the Hamburg studio set.
The film also shot in locations in the surrounding area, and briefly in Berlin. Filming began in Berlin in the last week of May.
Fleiss said that Yellow Letters is about “a marriage under pressure.” Turkish stars Özgü Namal (Kizil Goncalar, Merhamet, Hanimin Çiftligi) and Tansu Bicer (Midnight at the Pera Palace, The Pit, The Club) play the couple, Derya and Aziz, a famous actress and a professor of dramatic arts at the university in Ankara.
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