Propaganda (film)
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| Original title | propaganda |
| Country of production | Turkey |
| original language | Turkish |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| length | 107 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Sinan Çetin |
| script | Sinan Çetin, Gülin Tokat |
| production | Sinan Çetin, Cemil Çetin |
| music | Sezen Aksu |
| camera | Rebekka Haas |
| cut | Aylin Tinel |
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Propaganda is a Turkish feature film from 1999 by Sinan Çetin based on his own script. The tragic comedy is the last film with the popular Turkish comedian Kemal Sunal and was a great success in Turkey , but also received eleven international awards.
In Germany, the film was awarded by Warner Bros. and became a box office hit . In 2016, a follow-up film entitled Propaganda 2 was released in Turkey.
content
The action takes place in 1948. Border guard officer Mehdi is commissioned to draw the previously invisible border to Syria through his home village. He performs this task regardless of real circumstances, because the villagers, who from then on are to be separated by a border station and a fence, have always seen themselves as one people. Most of them don't have passports either. Major problems arise: the doctor can no longer care for all the sick, the teacher is denied access to school, families, friends and lovers are separated. Even Mehdi's son, whose fiancée lives in the other part of the village, is affected by this ...
criticism
According to Silvia Hallensleben, the story, which is based on a true story, is “told in an old-fashioned way and with a twinkle in the eye (...). With its anti-government thrust, this political parable is a vicious attack, not just against Turkish nationalism. Unfortunately, propaganda - contrary to its own claim - is quite patriarchal. The way director and writer Sinan Cetin narrative subordinates his heroines to conjuring father-son-man friendships leaves a stale aftertaste. "
Web links
- Propaganda in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Propaganda 2 in the Internet Movie Database (English)