Cinema
Dönüş
Türkan Şoray · 1972
Synopsis
Gülcan works as a day labourer on the lands of Reşit, the village's big landowner. She rejects his proposal and marries İbrahim. Reşit takes revenge by getting the couple into debt, and İbrahim goes to work in Germany to pay it off, intending to bring his wife over, according to Beyazperde and TheTVDB. Left alone, Gülcan has to stand up to Reşit; according to the Frauen Film Fest, she learns to read and write with the schoolteacher so she can read her husband's letters.
Context
The director herself plays the lead role, opposite Kadir İnanır and Bilal İnci; the screenplay is by Safa Önal, the cinematography by Kaya Ererez, the music by Yalçın Tura and the production by İrfan Ünal. The programme of a German women's film festival, which screened it again in 2014 in its Focus section, counts it among the first Turkish films to show migrant workers from a woman's point of view.
Who it is for
A film in Turkish running one hour thirty-four, with no known French release, shown at a festival in Germany in 2014.
Prizes and reception
Awarded a prize at the Moscow festival in 1973 and regarded as the director's first success; the Küre speaks of a special prize.
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