The road through the winding mountain pass is hard, at least the view through the windshield reveals a rugged Landscape in the depths of Anatolia. However, the rustic beauty is deceptive. The car journey ends in a village where the mayor is the village chief. The girl Havva is back at the starting point of your short excursion in the city: in the bosom of the family. At the front door, the father receives you. Also her oldest sister Reyhan lives with her Baby and her dumb husband, Veysel, the sheep of the village community, shepherds, back in the small hut. A social prison.
Emin Alper has chosen for his third feature-length film “A Tale of Three Sisters” are not liable to you happen to have a fairy tale title. As in his debut “Beyond the Hills” tells the story of a Turkish film Director, a story from the Anatolian province, but this time not with the smug undertone of a social satire, but as a kind of folk tale. His three daughters of a destitute farmer Sevket (Müfit Kayacan) had sent to wealthy families in the city. The “Besleme”Tradition is a Form of social advancement for many families in the rural part of Turkey is also the only.
retreat into Private
The hopes for a better life for the three girls dashed as one after another returns. Reyhan (Cemre Ebüzziya) has been impregnated by the landlord of their “adoptive family,” necessity is the father of married idiots, the disgraced daughter of the Village. Havva (Helin Kandemir) you must witness how the small son of her new family dies, the loss caused her nightmares. As the rebellious Nurhan (Ece Yüksel) stands in front of the door, because the one in the village respected Necati kicked her out, the family back at the beginning. Suddenly the daughter live under one roof again, but the uncertain future will disclose subtle rivalries and jealousies between the sisters.
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Alper has already been shown in “Beyond the Hills”, how discreet he can derive from such family constellations in which each has a right place, a far-reaching observations of the social milieu. In the paranoid social drama “Abluka – Everyone distrusts each” a dog-catcher, a spy for the government, was already looking decidedly political. His sharp powers of observation, has retained Alper in “A Tale of Three Sisters”, however, disappointed in his withdrawal into the Private after he seemed to position itself in the Turkish cinema just as a political voice.
code for suppressed desire
“A Tale of Three Sisters”, with its Assimilation of free fairy-tale motifs – similar to the last movies from Nuri Bilge Ceylan something of the old masters, the colors shimmer in the dim interior of the hut, between a nut brown and amber. To the Dutch Master, he didn’t want to follow, says Alper. Allows for a criticism of the traditional life, a typical Reflex of the reception of Turkey in the West (for example, in Deniz Gamze Ergüvens acclaimed sister drama “Mustang”), he will not get carried away. Alper is interested in more, what is the impact of traditional role models for the people.
Reyhan, Havva and Nurhan unfortunately, the structures that arrange, but each in their own way with the traditions. While the men are talking by a bonfire clear – text Sevket Necati wants to offer his youngest daughter to develop the girls Codes for their oppressed desire. In the case of the Ayran-production on a squeaky wooden drum, Reyhan and Hazza groaning back and forth encounter, explains to you her younger sister in detail about your “marital duties” – and then in the forest Horny about her drunken husband to pounce. Alper will always find humor in the faults of these social constellations.
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Turkish filmmaker Emin Alper’s “The patriarchs want to keep their Power,”
Daniela Sannwald
12.2., 12.30 At Zoo Palast, 15.15 Uhr Friedrichstadt-Palast, 19 Uhr HdBF, 17.2. Friedrichstadtpalast
