| Title: Men on the Bridge / Köprüdekiler |
| Country: Turkey, Germany, Netherlands, 2009 |
| Duration: 87' |
| Directed by: Асли Езге / Asli Özge |
| Cast overview: Фикрет Портакал / Fikret Portakal, Мурат Токгез / Murat Tokgöz, Умут Илкер / Umut Ilker, Џемила Илкер / Cemile Ilker |
| Distributor: Wide Management France T: +33 1 5395 0464 F: +33 1 5395 0465 wide@widemanagement.com www.widemanagement.com |
| Group: EUROPE OUT OF EUROPE |
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Plot Outline:
A bit of a Don Juan with his styled hair and single earring, Fikret (17) illegally sells roses in the traffic jam on the Bosphorus Bridge. At the same time, he looks for a regular job as a shop assistant in Istanbul's old downtown. Umut (28) drives a shared taxi and crosses the Bosphorus Bridge every day. He is newly married and his wife Cemile is impressed by the lifestyles she sees in television series. Umut wants to satisfy her, and they visit real estate agents in search of a better apartment to rent. Traffic policeman Murat (24), who comes from a small town, has recently been transferred to the Bosphorus Bridge. Fikret, Umut and Murat live in the suburbs of Istanbul and come to work in the centre of the city. Unknown to each other, their dreams intersect in the rush hour every day with millions of other Istanbulites on the so-called border between Asia and Europe.
Asli Özge
She was born in Istanbul in 1975. She graduated from the Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts, Film & TV in 1999, and immediately afterwards made the short film Capital C, which won a string of awards in various festivals. She is currently working on her follow-up feature Asphyxia, which has received the script development award at the Thessaloniki Film Festival’s Balkan Fund 2005. With this project she was pre-selected for the Sundance FF’s New Directors Award in 2007. Recently, the project was also selected for the Nipkow Programm.
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