Kuma (2012)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Kuma |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | Turkish , German |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Umut Dağ |
| script | Petra Ladinigg |
| production |
Veit Heiduschka Michael Katz |
| music | Iva Zabkar |
| camera | Carsten Thiele |
| cut | Claudia Linzer |
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Kuma (Turkish: “Nebenfrau”) is a feature film by the young Austrian director Umut Dağ from 2012, produced by Wega Film .
The mother of a Turkish-Austrian family brings a young woman from Anatolia to Vienna in order to know that her family will be cared for according to their traditional ideas if she should die of cancer. The film examines the emotional ties and conflicts as well as the turmoil caused by a claustrophobic family life, clashing worldviews and expectations that are too high.
The cinema premiere took place on February 9, 2012 as part of the Berlinale 2012 as the opening film of the Panorama section. The German-language cinema release was on April 27, 2012 in Austria.
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The film begins with a wedding in a small village in Anatolia . It could be a simple, boisterous party, but the groom's family is strangely tense and the bride seems rather melancholy. Why do you find out when the family arrived home in Vienna.
Ayse, the young bride, is not, as suspected, married to Hasan, the good-looking eldest son of the family, but the second wife ("Kuma") of Mustafa, the father of about sixty. Fatma, the mother, has cancer and would like her family to be cared for in accordance with the traditional values of her home country when she is no longer alive. Ayse lovingly takes care of the family and takes care of Fatma, who is very weak from her cancer treatment.
A deep friendship develops between the two women, despite the adverse circumstance of being married to the same man. Mustafa complies somewhat helplessly with the wishes of his first wife and from now on sleeps with Ayse in the marriage bed, while Fatma moves into her daughters' room. However, the two older daughters of Fatma, Kezban and Nurcan, are not so docile and sometimes encounter Ayse with open hostility. There is also tension between Fatma and her eldest daughter Kezban, who is married to a violent man, because the conservative Fatma believes that Kezban should take care of her new family rather than her old family. While Kezban desperately tries to soften her mother and cannot warm up to Ayse, who has taken the place in the family she wishes, Nurcan and Ayse gradually grow closer.
When Mustafa dies unexpectedly and Fatma is completely cured of her illness, the family starts to change. Ayse begins to work in the small Turkish supermarket, where the family always goes shopping in order to support them financially, and falls in love with her fake husband Hasan. When he tearfully confesses to her that he is gay, Ayse is devastated, at the same time it becomes understandable why Hasan let his mother persuade him into a fictitious marriage, considering how the conservative circle of the family would react if his homosexuality should become known.
While Fatma mourns her dead husband, Ayse moves away from her more and more. She no longer submits to Fatma's views without contradiction, begins to put on makeup and begins an affair with an employee. Everything goes well for a while, but one day Fatma catches Ayse and Osman in the back room of the supermarket and is so disgusted and disappointed that she goes nuts and brutally beats Ayse. Even Kezban and Nurcan can't stop her until she collapses crying. In the end Ayse tries to make peace with Fatma, but she doesn't even want to look at her. While Fatma mourns the past, the voices of the young family members can be heard chatting happily.
Reviews
“Kuma is a film full of beautiful pictures and melodramatic moments, in a good sense. But of course it is also and above all a film about traditional Turkish family structures. "
«Attentif à mille détails qui sonnent terriblement juste, aux antipodes du prêchi-prêcha politiquement correct, ce film est manifestement réalisé par un cinéaste qui sait de quoi il retourne, et qui ouvre avec intelligence et talent à la complexité de son sujet. »
- (Translated: Providing a thousand details that sound terribly right and diametrically opposed to politically correct preaching, this film was obviously made by a cineast who knows what it is returning for and who opens up to the complexity of its subject with intelligence and talent.)
Festivals
- Germany: Berlinale 2012, opening film of the Panorama section
- Austria: Diagonale 2012
- Japan: Skip City International D-Cinema Festival, Best Feature Film Award Winner
- Italy: Festival del Cinema Europeo, Lecce , winner of the special audience award
- Italy: Linea d'Ombra Festival Culture Giovani, Salerno , winner of the award for the best feature film
Web links
- Kuma in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Kuma trailer, information and links
- Nils Michaelis: Kuma: Veiled weaknesses Film review on vorwaerts.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kuma at filmhaus-saarbruecken.de. Retrieved June 21, 2017.
- ↑ Une seconde femme: histoire de famille en eaux troubles at lemonde.fr (French)