Cinema
Camdan Kalp
Fehmi Yaşar · 1990
Synopsis
A bourgeois intellectual, a screenwriter who struggles to get his scripts made, learns that his cleaning lady is beaten and cheated on by her husband, according to Salt. Outraged, he gets involved in her life to help her, and this undertaking leads him to unexpected places, where he runs up against harsh social realities of which he knew nothing. An entry taken from the TMDb database summarises the film as the story of a screenwriter who takes an interest in the problems of his cleaning lady.
Context
The screenplay is by the director. Salt, which showed it in Istanbul in 2016 with English subtitles, under the title A Heart of Glass, describes an intellectual whose career is declining and who discovers, in trying to help a woman, realities he was unaware of. The entry taken from TMDb dates the Turkish release to 9 November 1990. The film was its author's first feature, and no other is known by him.
Who it is for
A film in Turkish of around an hour and forty minutes, with no known French release and no recent screening reported in France.
Prizes and reception
Prize for best Turkish film at the 10th Istanbul International Film Festival, according to Salt, for a first film.
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