Yumurta - egg

Movie
German title	Yumurta - egg
Original title	Yumurta
Country of production	Turkey , Greece
original language	Turkish
Publishing year	2007
length	93 minutes
Age rating	FSK unchecked
Rod
Director	Semih Kaplanoğlu
script	Semih Kaplanoğlu
production	Semih Kaplanoğlu
camera	Özgür Eken
cut	Ayhan Ergürsel
occupation
	Nejat İşler : Yusuf; Saadet Işıl Aksoy : Ayla; Ufuk Bayraktar: Haluk; Gülçin Santırcıoğlu : Gül;
chronology
	Successor → ; Süt - milk

Yumurta - Ei is the first film in the reverse Yusuf trilogy by the Turkish director Semih Kaplanoğlu . The film ran in 2007 at the 60th Cannes International Film Festival .

action

When the poet Yusuf receives news of his mother's death, he returns to his home village, which he had not visited for a long time. A young girl, Ayla, welcomes him to a run-down house. Yusuf didn't know anything about this girl who had lived with her mother for five years. She has a request for Yusuf. Before his mother died, she asked him to perform a sacrificial ceremony that his mother could no longer carry out during his lifetime. Yusuf, plagued by guilt and also attracted by the rural atmosphere, agrees. Together with Ayla, he sets off on a four-hour walk to the grave of a holy man, where the sacrificial ceremony is to take place. Melancholy and with no interest whatsoever, Yusuf traverses familiar places, and due to an incident he is forced to face everything that he has been avoiding all along. When they cannot find the breed of the ram to be slaughtered there, they have to stay longer than planned at the tomb. As a result, Yusuf and Ayla are getting closer and closer.

criticism

“All the typical motifs of Turkish cinema that are already familiar from Ceylan or Demirkubuz. But the plot develops more relaxed, less weepy, more future-oriented and at times ironic. [...] That quickly developed a great poetic pull. Kaplanoglu has a rare ability to tell everything in the smallest of hints, practically between the pictures. [...] A great camera finds pictures full of harmony and eternity lifted from the course of time, a kind of return to nature - but which is always incidental, never pretentious or difficult. "

- Rüdiger Suchsland : Film review at Kino-Zeit