Mehmet and his friends are prisoners and escape from a prison bus, when they have an accident. They stop a van, kill its driver and take Zeynep, who is the driver’s fiancée, as a hostage. They also contact Zeynep’s family and ask for ransom. They hide in a chalet, but the police is after them.

Olum.Yolu.1985.1080p.WEBDL.mkv

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Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	1h 27mn
Size:	1.52 GiB
Video
Codec:	x264
Resolution:	1920x1080
Aspect ratio:	16:9
Frame rate:	25.000 fps
Bit rate:	2 350 Kbps
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2.0ch AAC @ 128 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/247476C6B2283D3/Olum.Yolu.1985.1080p.WEBDL.mkv

Language(s):Turkish
Subtitles:None

The post Halit Refig – Ölüm Yolu (1985) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Halit Refig’s film “The Lady” can be conceived as a thoroughly nostalgic film; the yearning for the city of Istanbul in old times was expressed in every part of the film. At first glance, the film was based on the story of a lonely old woman looking for a place for her cat before dying; yet, beyond this, within the structure of the film there existed a changing, disappearing, and even collapsing Istanbul and in parallel relation to the degenerating social connections in the city. In other words, the film reflected the degrading of the spatial characteristics of Istanbul and, human relations thereof. While Mrs. Olcay with an old residence on the shore house full of old furniture was the symbol of the old Istanbul, her helpless search for a safe place for her cat, on the other hand, revealed the new face of Istanbul with dehumanizing conditions of city life. As a result of such contrasts using to describe the transformation of the city in the film, Istanbul was represented as the city which was increasingly losing its charm and liveliness. This is nothing but the nostalgia for a disappearing old Istanbul. This view now starting to be observed in the films of the eighties would manifest itself even more strangely in following decade; and, in this way, the city of Istanbul would continue to be presented with reference to now rapidly disappearing values and beauties. (-Extract from a thesis submitted to Social Sciences/METU, by S. TUNCER)

Yıldız Kenter won the best actress award at the Bastia Film Festival for her part in Halit Refiğ’s film “Hanım”.

Halit Refig-Hanim (1988).avi

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Container:	AVI
Runtime:	1h 40mn
Size:	1.37 GiB
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Codec:	XviD
Resolution:	640x480
Aspect ratio:	4:3
Frame rate:	25.000 fps
Bit rate:	1 747 kb/s
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Turkish 2.0ch MP3 @ 192 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/61546A78CEE6A5D/Halit_Refig-Hanim_(1988).avi

Language(s):Turkish
Subtitles:none

The post Halit Refig – Hanim AKA Madame (1988) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

(warning: you may not want to read this review before watching film.)
If I am not mistaken, the scenario of this film is based upon an award winning story from Cumhuriyet,a prestigious paper in Turkey.Teyzem( My maternal aunt) is a very sentimental and successfully- managed story of relation between a young aunt in Istanbul and her nephew coming to the city to visit her and his grandparents.The aunt and her nephew, Baris,manage to construct a sound and secret friendship and alliance amongst each others during summer holiday and arrange visits to the former’s boyfriend who is a handsome guitarist in a local band. Noone in the family is aware of these secret visits.In the film, the audience is given opportunity to observe daily life of an Istanbul family making his way through a very moderate economic resources.For grandparents, nothing could be more important than their daughter’s eventual marriage with a decent man.They are also worried about their son who makes his life in little and simple earnings. However,as the heroine living in the world of fantasies and hallucinations, the aunt insists on dreaming herself in perfect togetherness with the guitarist.Things turn to get worsened each day for the family.Grandma gets paralysed, Step-father gets more and more uneasy in the family,economic problems force the family to sell the old mansion and concede to the building of an apartment building instead.To complicate matters, lazy and poorly-educated boy of the family escapes from home to live in Germany, a magnet of attraction of many Turks in the past. Baris, story teller of the film, experiences dramatic fall of his idol,auntie, in his eyes rapidly. Guitarist boy chases pocket rather than heart and abandones auntie.Deeply influenced by this abandonment, the auntie gets insane and becomes an acute sychszophrenic.The interesting point in the film is that Baris is in secret and mutually felt love with his aunt.It is the greatest time for them to hide their agendas, share their privacies and dream together. The film is much successful in matching actors and actresses with roles.Besides, music, background have been much impressive for me.Although I saw this film a decade ago,I could still keep in my mind many dialogues vividly. I sometimes wonder why International audience could not see this film. If – in any case- you have the chance to magnify into Turkish urban life and society in industrialisation crisis, watch this film.Pursuit of money , individualising relations in a communitarian society , alienation of masses, reflect themselves perfectly in Teyzem.

1.05GB | 1h 46m | 352×228 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/4FBD74E4AFCA902/teyzem_cd1.mpg https://nitro.download/view/3C1308C09C9EB1A/teyzem_cd1.srt https://nitro.download/view/B4D0FC05281BFBA/teyzem_cd2.mpg https://nitro.download/view/0F392D3F46A6B5B/teyzem_cd2.srt

Language(s):Turkish
Subtitles:English

The post Halit Refig – Teyzem AKA My Aunt (1987) first appeared on Cinema of the World.