Turkish film
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Market share of Turkish films in cinema admissions in Turkey |
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| year | Total cinema visits , in million |
Turkish films market share |
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| 2004 | 29.7 | 38.4% | |||||
| 2005 | 27.3 | 41.8% | |||||
| 2006 | 34.9 | 51.8% | |||||
| 2007 | 31.2 | 38.0% | |||||
| 2008 | 38.5 | 59.2% | |||||
The Turkish film history is part of the international film culture. While the reception of Turkish films was initially more limited to the national market, in the last few decades Turkish film has been represented above average at important international film festivals such as Cannes in view of a relatively low annual production .
history
The history of Turkish film began in 1914 with the documentary film Ayastefanos'daki Rus Abidesinin Yıkılışı by the Turkish reserve officer Fuat Uzkınay and soon turned to the filming of plays and novels.
From the mid-1940s a continuous feature film production established itself.
The spectrum of historical productions ranged from questionable remakes of successes in American cinema to comedies and melodramas to (initially rarer) artistic films, of which Yilmaz Güney is still considered the best-known international representative to this day . Tunç Başaran also received international attention at this time , as did the subsequent younger filmmakers, including Ömer Kavur , Erden Kıral , Orhan Oğuz and Yavuz Turgul .
In the 1970s, Turkey was at times one of the three largest feature film producers in the world.
On the threshold of the new millennium, people reacted to the general cinema crisis that accompanied television with the targeted production of blockbusters tailored to audience success , which also find a large audience in other European countries, largely through the respective Turkish immigrant groups. The Turkish production Valley of the Wolves - Iraq (2005) was the subject of international controversy .
There is also a larger independent film scene in Turkey, which can also boast high visitor numbers. In a European comparison, Turkey has, on average, the highest share of domestic films in national cinema visits, as it is around 40% to 60% ahead of France, which can have between 35% and 45% market share in the home market every year. However, per capita cinema visits are well below the European average. For example, Germany has around 125 million cinema visits with over 80 million inhabitants, France up to 190 million cinema visits with 65 million inhabitants - the high market share of Turkish films, however, relates to a comparatively low 38.5 million cinema visits (2008) with over 70 million inhabitants.
Turkish film has recently become more popular in other European countries thanks to successful filmmakers of Turkish descent, such as Ferzan Özpetek (Italy) or Fatih Akın (Germany). The latter was invited by the World Cinema Foundation to select older films worth preserving, including those from parts of Turkish film history that have hitherto been largely unknown internationally, for the restoration .
literature
- Mehmet Basutçu (ed.): Le cinéma turc . Center Georges Pompidou, Paris 1996
- Gönül Dönmez-Colin: Turkish Cinema: Identity, Distance and Belonging . Reaction Books, 2008, ISBN 1-86189-370-1
- Ekkehard Ellinger, Kerem Kayi: Turkish cinema 1970–2007: a bibliography and analysis . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main [etc.] 2008, ISBN 978-3-631-56654-1
- Ekkehard Ellinger: History of Turkish Film . deux mondes, Mannheim 2016, ISBN 978-3-932662-14-0
See also
literature
- Turkish film in: Microsoft Encarta
Web links
- Comprehensive overview of Turkish film history
- Fatih Akın : Just before the breakthrough . In: Spiegel Special , September 23, 2008
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Austrian Film Institute : Press release ( Memento of the original from March 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. the European Audiovisual Observatory (OBS) , Council of Europe Strasbourg, 9 February 2009 (accessed 17 February 2009); Figures for Turkey according to Sinema Gazetesi
