Les Enfants Terribles

After two years of marriage, Mahmut wants a divorce. Love never developed between him and the much younger Nezahat. Mahmut’s sister Zeynep wants to leave the village and study at university. As children of Turkish-conservative parents, family drama is inevitable. The director is Ahmet Necdet Çupur, who knows what the struggle of generations and traditions is all about. He himself left his parents’ home twenty years earlier; Zeynep and Mahmut are his siblings. With a calm voice and an understated attitude, he accompanies their courageous struggle for independence. (Cosima Lange)… >>>