Cinema
Bitmeyen Yol
Duygu Sağıroğlu · 1965
Synopsis
In Turkey in the sixties, as rural exodus and unemployment rise, six friends from the countryside arrive in Istanbul, driven by poverty, to find work. The film follows their paths one by one: some slide into crime without having intended to, others try to hold on in the big city, and a mother fights so that her son can go to university.
Context
The Censorship Board opposed the film because it showed all employers as bad, according to Salt's notes; Milliyet reports another reason, the poverty of the clothes and living conditions attributed to the villagers who had come to the city. According to Cumhuriyet, the film was banned and could not be shown for two years, until a decision by the Council of State. The same newspaper counts it among the best Turkish films on rural exodus. The copy shown by Salt runs 93 minutes.
Who it is for
A Turkish-language film of about an hour and a half, with no known French release, shown in Turkey with English subtitles in 2016.
Prizes and reception
Cumhuriyet sees in it the most successful and most discussed social film of 1965; no prize is reported.
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