Thursday, April 28, 2005

TOSS UP / YAZI TURA (2004)


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TOSS UP / YAZI TURA
Director: Uğur Yücel
Cast: Kenan İmirzalıoğlu, Olgun Şimşek, Bahri Beyat
Turkey, 2004
35 mm. / Color / 110’
Turkish; English s.t. 2
004 Best Film; Best Director; Best Screenplay; Best Editing; Best Music; Best Actor (Olgun Şimşek); Best Supporting Actor (Bahri Beyat); Best Supporting Actress (Eli Mango)


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THIS "TOUGH GUY" FILM, SHOT IN A DRAMATIC DOGMA STYLE AND THAT DOES NOT RESERVED IN SHARING ITS RAGE, IS CENTERED AROUND THE ARMED CONFLICTS IN SOUTEASTERN TURKEY THAT COST TEN THOUSANDS OF LIVES, AND TELLS TWO STORIES SET IN 1999: From Göreme, "Devil" Rıdvan, and from Istanbul, living with his father, "Ghost" Cevher. They had fought in the southeast together, Rıdav had lost his leg, found out that all that he had left back in his town had changed completely, and lost his dreams. Cevher, has lost his right ear. But to follow is the devastating Marmara earthquake.

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