Mavi Boncuk |1925-2013 | Foreign Movies Run Through Turkey
Exhibition on a selection of posters of foreign films in several languages about Turkey made between 1925 and 2013 has opened in Istanbul.
Exhibition on a selection of posters of foreign films in several languages about Turkey made between 1925 and 2013 has opened in Turker Inanoglu Vakfi (TURVAK) Cinema-Theatre Museum in Turkey's Istanbul city.
Poster Exhibition, "Foreign Films about Turkey", is featuring the visual memory of both fifty-four films from American, European, Australian, Hong Kong and Scandinavian cinema and four co-productions of Erler Film-Turker Inanoglu.
"We made a wide research in the archives and examined the cinema history. We think the exhibition will attract the attention of cinema-lovers," coordinator of the exhibition, Asli Yilmazsoy, said.
The exhibition includes different genres of cinema of world history such as Karl XII[1] (1925), Secret of Stamboul (1936), Journey into Fear (1943), The Mask of Dimitrios (1944), The Lady with a Lamp (1951), Five Fingers (1952), Orient Express (1954), Istanbul (1957), Abenteurer am Bosphorus (1962), From Russia with Love (1963), America, America (1963), Topkapi (1964), Istanbul Express (1968), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968), Medea (1969), You Can't Win 'Em All (1970), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Gallipoli (1981), Intimate Power/The Favorite (1989), Zombie and the Ghost Train (1991), The World is not enough (1999) and Skyfall (2012).
Since 1925, Turkey's several cities, its history, culture, the multifaceted structure and its exotic atmosphere in the view of the West are reflected widely in these movies, consisting more of spying and adventure movies.
The exhibition will remain open to public visit until February 28 in TURVAK Exhibition Hall
[1] John W. Brunius in 1925 directed the film Charles XII (Karl XII), photographed by Hugo Edlund and starring Gösta Ekman AS kARL Xii, Pauline Brunius and Mona Martenson. Its screenplay was written by Hjalmar Bergman and Ivar Johansson. Many of the scenes of Brunius' film were shot on the actual historical locations and battlesites, it having had been being one of the most expensive films to have been made in Sweden up untill that time.
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