Pazar - The Market
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Pazar - The Market |
| Original title | Pazar - Bir ticaret masali |
| Country of production | Germany , United Kingdom , Kazakhstan , Turkey |
| original language | Turkish |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ben Hopkins |
| script | Ben Hopkins |
| production | Roshanak Behesht Nedjad |
| music | Cihan Sezer |
| camera | Konstantin Kröning |
| cut | Alan Levy |
| occupation | |
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Pazar - Der Markt (also: Pazar - Where did the moon get its light from? ) Is a feature film by British director Ben Hopkins from 2008. The tragic comedy was shot in Turkish . The setting is Eastern Turkey. The main roles are played by rather unknown actors.
action
Eastern Turkey, in 1994: Mihram, a traveling retailer, lives in a border town. He always succeeds in fulfilling the wishes of his customers. The deal, however, doesn't turn in enough for him and his pregnant devout wife, Elif. He then dreams of making big money with cell phones, which are becoming more and more popular with the establishment of the first cell phone networks in the region. But he doesn't have the $ 500 for a license. He drowns the remaining money to live on.
He gets the money by chance from the local hospital doctor, who entrusts him with a large amount for the illegal procurement of children's vaccines. Mihram then drives across the border to Azerbaijan , where medicine is cheaper and where his resourceful but self-pitying uncle Fazil lives. This threads a middleman. Mihram wants to sell the received material at high prices in neighboring Turkey in order to pay for the license and the vaccine. The local mafia is suspicious of the business. Mihram succeeds in making a quick return in gambling against the criminals, but these lurk later on for the dealer and his uncle.
In the end, the local mafia wins to keep the opaque black market in order, while Mihram stumbles drunk on the dance floor of a provincial bar and becomes a thief himself in despair.
History of origin
Director Ben Hopkins was inspired for his film in the late 1990s by an article about Moldova and the onset of capitalism . “A system that encourages and rewards mercantile creativity; and at the same time a system that is vulnerable to ruthless market forces that take control of the market often enough, ”said Hopkins.
The Briton chose Turkey as the location because he had come to know and love the country as a result of several festival premieres and the films by Yılmaz Güney and also learned the language. After an initial trip to eastern Turkey to research his documentary 37 Uses For A Dead Sheep (2006), Hopkins began planning the feature film, which took three years to complete. According to his own statements, films by Yılmaz Güney (including Die Herde , 1979), Satyajit Ray ( middle man , 1976) and Vittorio de Sica ( bicycle thief , 1948) as well as works by Bertolt Brecht ( Mother Courage and The Caucasian Chalk Circle ) served as models for the script ). The director selected the actors from 600 actors. Only for the role of Uncle Fazil Hopkins was able to win the well-known Turkish theater actor Genco Erkal.
The filming of Pazar - The Market took place in Van and Doğubeyazıt . Because of the money from Germany and Turkey, Hopkins was only able to select the editor Alan Levy from Great Britain, who he knew, for the film project himself.
Reviews
Ben Hopkins feature film was largely recognized by the German trade press, which also praised the portrayal of the actor Tayanç Ayaydin. The film hides "its political messages unobtrusively behind a personal story and a selection of music reminiscent of Wim Wenders " and is staged with a steady hand and knowledge of local mentalities, according to the film-dienst . Critic Heike Kühn ( Frankfurter Rundschau ) saw references to the works of the Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki and praised the main actor, while Birgit Glombitza ( taz ) pointed out the film's “sometimes a bit awkward, but consistently clever and loving” narrative. “A film like this fits perfectly in times when the forces of the free economy seem to be collapsing in a gigantic vertigo,” says Glombitza. Peter Uehling ( Berliner Zeitung ) praised the way in which Pazar was presented as realistic through and through: “From a frog's perspective, the economy is explained here, and it does so in such a matter-of-fact and calm manner that at first one would almost like to mistake 'Pazar' for a documentary. The camera keeps its distance, the editing is calm. But the film can afford that because it is played and photographed wonderfully and because its story unfolds with a logic and inevitability that speaks for itself. "
Awards
Hopkins film received 2008 at the Golden Orange Film Festival of Antalya , prices for the best film, screenplay, actor (Tayanç Ayaydin) and costumes. In the same year the film won the competition at the Flanders International Film Festival in Ghent , Belgium , and actor Tayanç Ayaydin was honored with the Silver Leopard as best actor at the Locarno International Film Festival .
Web links
- Official website (German and Turkish)
- Pazar - The market in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.yumpu.com/de/document/view/13401137/woher-hat-der-mond-ein-licht ; accessed on January 5, 2020
- ↑ Synopsis at pazar-der-film.de; Retrieved August 22, 2009
- ↑ a b Heike Kühn: The fooled fool . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , November 28, 2008, p. 36
- ↑ Bernd Buder: Criticism. In: film-dienst , 24/2008
- ↑ Birgit Glombitza: The ceiling is always a bit too short . In: taz , November 29, 2008, p. 20
- ↑ Peter Uehling: How does the frog see capitalism? In: Berliner Zeitung , November 27, 2008, p. K05