Kağıt

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Movie
Original title Kağıt
Country of production Turkey
original language Turkish
Publishing year 2011
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Sinan Çetin
script Sinan Çetin
production Sinan Çetin
music Fırat Yükselir
occupation

Kağıt ( Turkish kağıt or kâğıt = German paper ) is a Turkish film drama by director Sinan Çetin from 2011.

action

The film begins with a seemingly bizarre scene: Emrah ( Öner Erkan ) leads the unsuspecting Müzeyyen ( Asuman Dabak ) into his sparsely furnished garage apartment, the walls of which are completely lined with paper. So that Müzeyyen can take a bath, Emrah leaves his accommodation for a while. When he returns, he tells Müzeyyen that he will try her. He gives her a sleeping pill, then the film fades back to 1977.

1977 in İstanbul : The young director Emrah Uygar needs money for his first work, a film about the Turkish labor movement. He does find a film distributor who wants to finance and publish the work and makes extensive changes to the script to do so. However, in order for the film to be in theaters, Emrah needs written approval from the state. On May 1st, the day of the massacre in Taksim Square with many dead, he traveled to the censorship authority in Ankara . There, the clerk Müzeyyen Gürkaya rejects his application because Emrah has already started filming.

Emrah is not deterred by the negative decision and continues to work on his film. For this he uses the 90,000 lira that his father ( Ahmet Mekin ) took out as a mortgage on the house to enable Emrah to open a pharmacy. Emrah is able to finish his film and repeatedly travels to the authorities, but Müzeyyen insists on the letter of the law, refuses permission and does not allow Emrah's mother ( Ayşen Gruda ) to change her mind. For her part, Müzeyyen wrote a letter to the police in which she accused Emrah of activities hostile to the Republic.

Since Emrah is not allowed to publish his film and the family cannot repay the money for the mortgage, the house and the objects in it are seized . Emrah's father takes his own life during the eviction. While the family is saying goodbye, police officers arrive and arrest Emrah. He is interrogated and sentenced to prison. After four years in prison (and one year after the military coup ), Emrah is released. Müzeyyen has since been promoted. Emrah takes a job as a janitor in her office building without Müzeyyen recognizing him. Emrah stole stamps from the office, forged documents and blackened Müzeyyen from the authorities. She loses her job and her apartment. He manages to lure her into his apartment, whereby the film returns to the opening scene.

Emrah puts a noose around Müzeyyen's neck and, when she wakes up again, confronts her with the situation into which she has brought him through her behavior in accordance with the law. Müzeyyen shows no remorse and is ready to accept the impending hanging. Emrah sets fire to the script pages he used to line the walls. While the apartment goes up in flames, he releases Müzeyyen, but stays inside himself and locks himself in.

Message of the film

In the credits, a connection is made between Emrah's fate and the 268 million people who were killed in the 20th century by government-issued "legal papers". To be named Deniz Gezmiş , Yusuf Arslan and Hüseyin İnan (1972), Erdal Eren (1980), Adnan Menderes (1961), Nazim Hikmet (arrested in 1938), Uğur Mumcu (1993), Said Nursi (1960), Abdi İpekçi (1979 ), Hrant Dink (2007), Gaffar Okkan (2001), Musa Anter (1992), İsmail Besikci (1971), Malcolm X (1965), Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1927), Martin Luther King (1968), Ethel Rosenberg and Julius Rosenberg (1953), Mascha Bruskina and Volodija Shtscherbazewitsch (1941). In addition, there are numerous images of atrocities against people, including the Tian'anmen massacre , the Dersim uprising , the Holocaust , the acts of the Turkish independence courts , the poison gas attack on Halabja , the genocide in Rwanda , the Vietnam War and the crimes of the Khmer Rouge . The genocide of the Armenians is not mentioned.

Film bug

The Arial font is used in many scenes in the film . It wasn't designed until 1982 and didn't exist at the time the film is set.

premiere

"Kağıt" premiered in October 2010 at the 47th Antalya Altın Portakal Film Festivali.

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