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Mennan Yapo (born 1966) is a German director, screenwriter, producer and actor.

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Mennan Yapo
Born	1966 Munich, Germany
Occupation	Director, screenwriter, producer, actor.
Years active	1996 - present
Awards	Cognac Festival du Film Policier Special Jury Prize 2004 Lautlos

Born in Munich to Turkish parents, Yapo has been in the film business since 1988, working in various assistant jobs and as a publicist at first.

From 1995, Yapo 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 marked 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 Soundless which became 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 $85 million worldwide.

Filmography

Director

• 1999: Framed (short film)
• 2004: Soundless
• 2007: Premonition

Producer

• 1996: After Hours
• 1999: Framed
• 2001: Birth:day
• 2013: Planet USA

Actor

• 1996: The Pillow Book, as "Café Typo" Manager
• 2003: Good Bye, Lenin!, as Flea Market Vendor

External links

• Mennan Yapo at IMDb
• http://www.mennanyapo.com

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Menan Yapicioglu nacido en Múnich (Alemania) en 1966, es un director, guionista, productor y actor alemán.

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