Waiting for the clouds

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Movie
German title Waiting for the clouds
Original title Appreciate Bulutlari
Country of production France , Germany , Greece , Turkey
original language Turkish , Greek
Publishing year 2004
length 94 minutes
Rod
Director Yeşim Ustaoğlu
script Yeşim Ustaoğlu
Petros Markaris
production Mehmet Aktaş , Setareh Farsi
Behrooz Hashemian
music Michael Galasso
camera Jacek Petrycki
cut Timo Linnasalo
Nicolas Gaster
occupation
  • Rüçhan Çaliskur: Ayshe / Eleni
  • Rıdvan Yagcı: Mehmet
  • Dimitris Kamberidis: Tanasis
  • Feride Karaman: Feride

Waiting for the Clouds is a film by Yeşim Ustaoğlu from the year 2004 . The film is based on the novel Tamama (1994) by Georgios Andreadis.

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In 1975 the sixty-year-old Ayshe lives in a Turkish fishing village west of Trabzon , where she has become increasingly lonely since the death of her older sister. The boy next door, Mehmet, with whom she has developed a grandmotherly relationship, worries about her. When the strange Thanasis appears in the village, Ayshe retires in a wooden hut in the mountains, between the clouds, and refuses to return to the village. This behavior, which is inexplicable to everyone, especially in the run-up to the happy occasion of a wedding, triggers rumors among the villagers and also leads to Mehmet's incomprehension.

Nobody knows about Ayshe's secret, which has been kept for five decades: before her adoption , she was the daughter of Orthodox Pontic Greeks who lived in Turkey . Her baptismal name was Eleni. She is plagued by her guilty conscience because, as a ten-year-old child, she decided not to follow her brother, who was deported to Greece , but instead to stay safe with her Turkish adoptive family.

Fifty years after the separation, now willing to explore her own roots and find the lost brother, she travels to Greece.

Reviews

  • FIPRESCI Festival Report ( Berlinale 2005 ): Using the story of Ayshe, the film poses the question of Turkey's own identity and that of Turkey's recent political past. Yesim Ustaoglu does not put the big history of Turkey in the foreground, she prefers to follow the "small" stories, personal life stories, including the big story. (Mücke Turan, Berlin 2005)
  • ARTE : The new film by the director, who comes from Kars on the border with Armenia, is also dedicated to a politically sensitive topic, the forced resettlement of the Turkish Greeks from the Pontos region on the south-east coast of the Black Sea, from before, during and after the First Hundreds of thousands were affected. "Waiting for the Clouds", like "Reise zur Sonne", is not an incendiary but a conciliatory film that aims to shed light on one of the many topics in recent Turkish history that have been tabooed by the military dictatorship. (Martin Rosefeldt, February 11, 2005)

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