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[filio]

hello good people,

was just wondering if anyone saw this yet. it sounds interesting and it just came out on french cinemas although its a 2004 production.

"waiting for the clouds" or "Bulutlari beklerken" is a film directed and written by Yesim Ustaoglu with Petros Markaris (co-writer)





synopsis
Quote: In the 1970s, the Turkish Republic was a country in great social and political upheaval, and its gargantuan neighbour, the Soviet Union, was a constant source of fear and paranoia. Turkish Communists and anyone else deemed an "other” were watched closely by the government. Intolerance and suspicion reigned supreme. This atmosphere was especially intense in Turkey’s north-eastern region which includes the Black Sea city of Trabzon, only a few hundred kilometres from the border with Soviet Georgia.

Since antiquity, north-eastern Turkey was a crossroads of Greek and Turkish cultures, and these co-existed peacefully until the fall of the heterogeneous Ottoman Empire during WWI. Not far west of Trabzon is Trebolu, a fishing village formerly populated by Pontic Greeks, and this town provides the setting for WAITING FOR THE CLOUDS. Through one of Trebolu’s elderly inhabitants, a woman named Ayshe, we will learn of one nearly-forgotten episode of the war, a terrible result of Turkish-Greek animosity, in which the Ottoman army in the winter of 1916 evacuated villages west of Russian-occupied Trabzon. Greek residents were forced to suffer hasty, haphazard ­ and deadly ­ deportations in what was an early example of ethnic cleansing.

What is a homeland? Who is a foreigner? These thorny questions of identity and nationalism, played out through Ayhse’s long and tragic life, will be prominent themes in WAITING FOR THE CLOUDS, and the region’s beautifully eerie landscapes, from the swirling mists of the Black Sea to the low-lying clouds of its surrounding mountains, will provide a rich backdrop in which long-held secrets may finally filter into the light from one of history’s darker corners [/img]

[brother]

Sounds like an excellent movie, thanks fillio. :)

[FAMAGUSTA]

Nai, it sounds like a good movie.

I was wondering, can we find it in DVD stores? cinema?
I'll try to find more information and if so I'll let you know.

[brother]

FAMAGUSTA wrote: Nai, it sounds like a good movie.

I was wondering, can we find it in DVD stores? cinema?
I'll try to find more information and if so I'll let you know.

Much appreciated FG. :wink:

[pg]

http://www.beyazperde.com/shop/urun/12465

Should mean it is on DVD..., although perhaps difficult to get it from there.

(www.play.com is a decent place with free delivery also to Cyprus, but I can not find it there)