Years active 1996 - present Name Mennan Yapo | Role Director | |
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Born 1966 Munich, Germany Occupation Director, screenwriter, producer, actor. Awards Cognac Festival du Film Policier
Special Jury Prize
2004 Lautlos Movies Premonition, Soundless, Gunslinger Similar People Courtney Taylor Burness, Shyann McClure, Bill Kelly, Julian McMahon, Kate Nelligan | ||
Premonition - cover by iasonas moraitis
Mennan Yapo (born 1966) is an award-winning German director, screenwriter, producer and actor.
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Born in Munich to Turkish parents, Yapo has been in the film business since 1988, at first working in various assistant jobs and as a publicist.
From 1995, Yapo has worked as a screenwriter and producer, as well as a supporting actor (in Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book, 1996, and Wolfgang Becker's Good Bye Lenin!, 2003).
1999 marks Yapo's first outing as a director. His directing debut, the short subject Framed, was nominated for the Deutscher Filmpreis and shown at numerous international festivals.
In 2002, Yapo started working on his first full-length directing work, the thriller Lautlos (Soundless). A German box-office success in 2004, it also won international critical acclaim.
Yapo's Hollywood directing debut, the drama film Premonition, starring Sandra Bullock, was released to cinemas in March 2007 and grossed 85m$ worldwide.