Gitmek: My Marlon And Brando France / The Netherlands / Turkey / UK
2008, 92min.
Prod.: Hüseyin Karabey, Lucinda Englehart, Frans van Gestel, Jeroen Beker, Script: Hüseyin Karabey, Ayca Damgaci, Dir.: Hüseyin Karabey, Dir. of Phot.: Emre Tanyildiz, Compos.: Kemal Sahir Gurel, Huseyin Yildiz, Erdal Guney, Sound: Mohammed Mokhtari, Edit.: Mary Stephen
Cast: Ayca Damgaci, Hama Ali Kahn, Nesrin Cavadzade, Emrah Ozdemir, Cengiz Bozkurt, Mahir Gunsiray
Ayca is a Turkish actress living in Istanbul. On a film set in the West of Turkey, she meets Hama Ali, a Kurdish actor. The two fall in love while shooting a film. After the shoot Ayca returns to Istanbul and Hama has to go back to his home, Suleymaniye in northern Iraq. Ayca and Hama continue their relationship on the telephone and via letters, while America prepares to attack Iraq. The post often does not work and the phone lines in Iraq are usually cut off. From time to time, Ayca receives a declaration of love from her lover on video. But Ayca can no longer bear the distance between them and decides to travel to northern Iraq. However, to get into a country at war turns to be just as difficult as to get out.
Awards
Best New Narrative Filmmaker (Tribeca Film Festival 2008)
Production Company
A-si Film Yapim
Spier Films
IDTV FILM/Motel Films
| Karabey, Huseyin Huseyin Karabey (born 1970, Istanbul, Turkey)
He lives and works in Istanbul. Hüseyin Karabey pursues film directing since 1996. He graduated from the Film & Television department, Fine Arts School of the Marmara University in 2001. His short films, documentaries and his first full length feature My Marlon and Brando have been shown at many important festivals and have won various awards. Currently he is involved as Artistic Director in the production of an Omnibus project entitled Do Not Forget Me Istanbul.
Filmography (selected)
Silent Death (2001), My Marlon and Brando (2008), Then and Now (segment “No Darknes Will Make Us Forget, 2011)
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