Tarek Ehlial | |
Birth Date: | 31 August 1981 |
Birth Place: | 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.
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]
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 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]