Cinema
Tabutta Rövaşata
Derviş Zaim · 1996
Synopsis
Mahsun, a middle-aged homeless man, lives near the Rumeli Hisarı fortress in Istanbul and sleeps on building sites or in cars that he breaks into at night and puts back in their place afterwards, according to the Humanities Institute. Biyografiler.com describes him as stealing moments of respite rather than objects, the comfort of a car. Beaten by the police, he is watched over and helped by Reis, an old fisherman, and falls for a young woman who uses drugs.
Context
Daily Sabah reports that the film was shot on very little money, advanced by the director's mother, with unpaid actors, in a café on the Bosphorus. Ahmet Uğurlu plays Mahsun and Tuncel Kurtiz plays Reis; the music is by the band Baba Zula. The Humanities Institute regards it, with another film of the same year, as a starting point of the new Turkish cinema, and explains the title by a football figure.
Who it is for
A film in Turkish of about an hour and a half, with no attested French release and no recent screening reported in France.
Prizes and reception
Four Golden Oranges at Antalya, including Best Film, and three prizes at the Montpellier festival, according to Daily Sabah.
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