Berlin Festivali Türk Filmini Onurlandırdı — Berlin Festival Honors Turkish Film

Berlin Festival Honors onurlandırmak Turkish Film

Sunday, February 21, 2010

The Third and last film in Turkish director Semih Kaplanoğlu's Yusuf Trilogy üçleme, 'Bal'(Honey) won Sunday the Golden Bear, the top prize of the German Film Festival. It is the first Golden Bear for a Turkish film since 1964.

The 60th Berlin Film Festival wrapped up Sunday after giving the Golden Bear to a Turkish film for the first time since 1964. A seven-member jury jüri led yol göstermek by German director Werner Herzog ("Fitzcarraldo") and including Oscar-winning actress Renee Zellweger gave top honors to the Turkish family drama "Bal"(Honey) starring a 7-year-old boy.

The picture, a Turkish-German co-production, tells the story of a struggling student whose father dies in a freak anormal accident. The winning film tells the story of a 6-year-old boy who stops speaking when his father disappears. It was filmed in the lush gür mountains of the Turkish countryside where the boy goes in search of his father, a beekeeper arıcı. Director Semih Kaplanoglu said the award was "like a rebirth" and he hoped that it would be an inspiration ilham to young filmmakers in Turkey.

"Honey" is the third and last film in director Kaplanoğlu's Yusuf Trilogy. The others were "Yumurta" (Egg) and "Süt" (Milk). The third film in the trilogy traces izlemek a 7-year-old boy and his development as an artist and human being in rural Turkey, played here by Bora Altaş, now aged 8.

Kaplanoğlu called attention to Turkey's threatened tehdit edilmiş wilderness near the Black Sea coast, the setting for much of the film, during his acceptance speech.

"I hope with this prize we have received this evening, we manage to protect the environment there as well," he said.

This is the first time a Turkish film has officially resmi olarak received the Golden Bear since Metin Erksan accepted the award in Berlin in 1964 for "Dry Summer" (Susuz Yaz), a movie that pivots dönmek around two farmer brothers and how they play out their passions tutku and ambitions heves through the water they control during an especially arid kurak summer. However Turkish director Fatih Akın's acclaimed alkışlarla karşılamak"Head On" (Duvara Karşı),centered yoğunlaşmak on the tumultuous kargaşalı lives of some of Germany's second generation ethnic Turks,ran aday olmak and won the prize as a German movie in 2004.