Mustang (2015)

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Movie
German title mustang
Original title mustang
Mustang (2015) Textlogo.png
Country of production Turkey ,
Germany ,
France ,
Qatar
original language Turkish
Publishing year 2015
length 97 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director Deniz Gamze Ergüven
script Deniz Gamze Ergüven,
Alice Winocour
production Charles Gillibert ,
Frank Henschke ,
Anja Uhland ,
Mine Vargi
music Warren Ellis
camera David Chizallet ,
Ersin Gok
cut Mathilde Van de Moortel
occupation
synchronization

Mustang is a multi-award-winning film drama by the Turkish director Deniz Gamze Ergüven from 2015 , which was made in a Turkish-French-German co-production. From the perspective of the youngest sister, the film depicts the life of five young sisters who grow up with their grandmother in a remote Turkish village. They do not always succeed in defending their joie de vivre through tricky maneuvers and their freedom by running away from the restrictions of a repressive, patriarchal society.

The film premiered on May 19 at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival and opened in German cinemas on February 25, 2016.

action

On the last day of school before the summer holidays, the five sisters Sonay, Selma, Ece, Nur and Lale say goodbye to their teacher Dilek, who is moving to a school in distant Istanbul , and then walk home on the beach. They romp around in the sea with some boys from school and have a water fight. When they arrive home, their grandmother is expecting them and accuses them of having "rubbed" against the boys.

In the evening Uncle Erol comes home and accuses the grandmother of bringing up the girls too laxly. He forces the three eldest to be examined in the hospital to find that they are still "untouched".

Now Erol is gradually transforming her house into a prison: the garden wall is raised, the doors are locked and the windows are barred. Instead of having fun with the Internet and the telephone, the girls are now being instructed by the women in the village to cook and run the household.

Lale, the youngest and wildest, is now thinking of fleeing to Istanbul and keeps slipping outside for a short while. She takes Erol's car keys, but after starting the engine she doesn't know how to drive. On one of her little escapes, she persuades the young truck driver Yasin to teach her how to drive a car.

Despite everything, the others always manage to break out secretly. So all five steal from the house and take the bus to a football match in Trabzon . The game will be televised and the women in the village are horrified to see the five girls among the spectators in the stadium. A shrewd aunt paralyzes the village's electricity supply to prevent the men from finding out.

The excursion still has serious consequences for the sisters: They are no longer allowed to dress as they want, but the women tailor them brown sack-like dresses and they initiate marriages for the girls. The eldest, Sonay, can get her to marry her friend Ekin, but Selma, the second eldest, has to marry a man she doesn't know. Ece is also supposed to be married in this way.

Lale now notices that Ece is acting strangely and that Uncle Erol sneaks up to the older sisters at night. After an incident during dinner, he sends Ece to her room. There she shoots herself.

Now Nur, the fourth oldest, is to be married too. But when the wedding party is greeted in front of the house by uncle and grandma, the two remaining sisters barricade themselves in the well-secured house. They sneak outside on the back and flee first in Uncle Erol's car, then with Yasin's help on to Istanbul. There they seek refuge with their former teacher Dilek.

background

The opening scene of the film is based on Ergüven's personal experience.

Sexual violence is never explicitly shown in the entire film, but in the last third two short shots suggest the possibility that the uncle may abuse the girls at night. This is compounded by Nur's threat towards the end of the film to report his uncle as he tries to get to the two sisters barricaded in the house.

title

In an interview for the weekly newspaper Der Freitag , the director explained the film's title: “The Mustang is a wild horse - the perfect symbol for my five heroines and their rampant, boisterous temperament. There are also visually parallels. Their hair is like horse mane and when they chase through the village it looks like a herd in an uproar. The story always progresses, as if at a gallop. It is this energy that defines the film for me, and the Mustang image is perfect for that. "

synchronization

The German dubbing was based on a dialogue book and the dialogue direction by Stephan Hoffmann .

actor Voice actor role
Güneş Şensoy Léa Mariage Lale
Doğa Doğuşlu Aliana Schmitz Just
Elit İşcan Jodie Blank Ece
Tuğba Sunguroğlu Stella Sommerfeld Selma
İlayda Akdoğan Olivia Büschken Sonay
Nihal Koldaş Cornelia Meinhardt grandmother
Ayberk Pekcan Michael Iwannek Uncle Erol
Burak Yiğit Burak Yiğit Yasin
Erol Afsin Erol Afsin Osman

Awards

Mustang has received numerous awards and nominations internationally. At the 2015 Cannes International Film Festival , it premiered on May 19 in the series “Quinzaine des Réalisateurs”, where it won the Europa Cinemas Label Award and the Lux Prize . As a French contribution, it was nominated for an Oscar for best foreign language film and a Golden Globe Award . The director won the young talent award at the Peace Prize of German Films - Die Brücke . The film was awarded the “Heart of Sarajevo” .

literature

References

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Mustang . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Age rating for Mustang . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Interview with 'Mustang' director Deniz Gamze Ergüven. Canım Istanbul, accessed on May 16, 2018 .
  4. ^ Role and Debate. Friday , February 25, 2016, accessed on May 16, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Mustang | Awards. IMDb , accessed May 16, 2018 .
  6. ↑ All nominations at a glance. Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 14, 2016, accessed on January 14, 2016 .