Destiny Turkey / Greece
2006, 103min.
Producer: Lilette Botassi, Zeki Demirkubuz, Script/Dir.: Zeki Demirkubuz, Dir. of Phot.: Zeki Demirkubuz, Compos.: Edvard Artemiev, Sound: Ismail Karadash, Yiorgos Mikroyannakis, Prod. design: Gunesh Choban, Editor: Zeki Demirkubuz.
Cast: Vildan Atasever, Ufuk Bayraktar, Engin Akyürek, Müge Ulusoy, Mustafa Uzunyilmaz, Ozan Bilen.
Bekir is in love with Ugur, who loves Zagor who loves to commit crimes. Zagor is released from the jail. When unfortunate incidents follow one another in a hot and suffocating summer night, Zagor commits a murder. The same night Ugur disappears too. He gets married and starts a new life. However, when Zagor kills two policemen in Izmir and gets seized, Bekir starts to trail Ugur in cheap countryside nightclubs, third class motel rooms, in joint parties. Degraded, his pride is offended, but he doesn’t mind. Ugur is dragged after Zagor from town to town, prison to prison and Bekir follows Ugur like a loyal, stubborn dog. While everything is vanishing for a pair of eyes and a beautiful face, love grows with the light of a cigarette put out in the palms, with pain, poverty, tears and badness. Families are torn apart, children grow orphans yet the innocence is never lost.
Awards
Turkish National FF from Antalya Golden Orange (Best Film,Young Talent Special Award - Ufuk Bayraktar), Nurnberg Turkey/Germany FF (Best Film), Istanbul IFF (Best Turkish Director, Best Actor, FIPRESCI Prize), Ankara FF (Best Director, Best Actor).
| Demirkubuz, Zeki Zeki Demirkubuz (born 1964, Isparta)
Graduate of the Istanbul University Department of Communications. He began his career as an assistant to director Zeki Okten. He followed his first film, Block C, with Innocence (and The Third Page.
Filmography
Block C (1994), Innocence (Masumiyet), 1997), The Third Page (1999), Fate (2001), Confession (2001), The Waiting Room (2003).
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