Mavi Boncuk | Berlinale 2015 | Films from Turkey
Generation Kplus
Kar Korsanları | Snow Pirates | Schneepiraten
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DIRECTOR: Faruk Hacıhafızoğlu CAST: Taha Tegin Özdemir, Yakup Özgür Kurtaal, Ömer Uluç, Yücel Can, Isa Mastar, Ilker Sır, Oğuzhan Ulukaya, Arda Ilkin Parlak, Figen Oral Cebel, Süreyya Koca, Zeki Aktaş![]()
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Winters are hard in eastern Turkey. There is snow, as far as the eye can see and barely a lump of coal to be found for heating, but plenty of soldiers on every corner. It is the 1980s and the effects of the military dictatorship are to be felt everywhere here. But Serhat, Gurbuz and Ibrahim do not seem to be bothered about any of that. During the school holidays they set off with their little wooden sleds through the cold to collect bits of coal from ash heaps for their scattered families. Left to themselves, they somehow get by and pass the time recounting again and again the plots of the few films they know. The authoritarian conditions in their country are as much a part of their existence as are the tricks they employ to survive each day.
Faruk Hacıhafızoğlu’s cinematic debut is a stylistically rigorous portrait of the time of the military dictatorship, seen through the eyes of these boys. Told in static shots and with a sparing use of music he describes his young protagonists’ unswerving sense of optimism. Their inseparable friendship and their courage are stronger than the cold and oppression.
Faruk Hacıhafızoğlu
Born in Kars, Turkey in 1965, he graduated in agricultural sciences at Akdeniz University in Antalya, Turkey in 1991 and then completed a BA in contemporary media practice at Westminster University in London in 2002. He has worked as a journalist, photographer, producer and director. KAR KORSANLARI is his first film.
Filmograpy 2014 Kar Korsanları
Türkei 2014 83 Min. · DCP · Farbe
Regie, Buch: Faruk Hacıhafızoğlu Kamera: M. Türksoy Gölebeyi Schnitt: Orhan Örsman, Ayhan Ergürsel Musik: Mehmet Ünal Sound Design: SertaçToksöz, Yalın Özgencil Ton: Mustafa Bölükbaşı Production Design: Ayla Kanbur Kostüm: Filiz Karaldi Maske: Hülya Karakaş Casting: Aslı Yazır Regieassistenz: Yücel Can, Armağan Lale Produktionsleitung: Halil Erdoğdu Produzent: Faruk Hacıhafızoğlu Ausführender Produzent: Zafer Hacıhafızoğlu
Darsteller: Taha Tegin Özdemir (Serhat) Yakup Özgür Kurtaal (Gürbüz) Ömer Uluç (İbo) Yücel Can (Deli Durdağı) Isa Mastar (Cesur Cello) Ilker Sır (Yeke Cello) Oğuzhan Ulukaya (Mökgem Cello) Arda Ilkin Parlak (Vedat Abi) Figen Oral Cebel (Serhats Mutter) Süreyya Koca (Vedats Mutter) Zeki Aktaş (Efendi Dede)
Produktion Kars Film Istanbul, Türkei +90 536 8990747 karsfilm@gmail.com
Generation Kplus
Kar Korsanları | Snow Pirates | Schneepiraten
Turkey 2014, 83 min, Turkish, Kurdish
Winters are hard in eastern Turkey. There is snow, as far as the eye can see and barely a lump of coal to be found for heating, but plenty of soldiers on every corner. It is the 1980s and the effects of the military dictatorship are to be felt everywhere here. But Serhat, Gurbuz and Ibrahim do not seem to be bothered about any of that. During the school holidays they set off with their little wooden sleds through the cold to collect bits of coal from ash heaps for their scattered families. Left to themselves, they somehow get by and pass the time recounting again and again the plots of the few films they know. The authoritarian conditions in their country are as much a part of their existence as are the tricks they employ to survive each day.Faruk Hacıhafızoğlu’s cinematic debut is a stylistically rigorous portrait of the time of the military dictatorship, seen through the eyes of these boys. Told in static shots and with a sparing use of music he describes his young protagonists’ unswerving sense of optimism. Their inseparable friendship and their courage are stronger than the cold and oppression.
Faruk Hacıhafızoğlu
Born in Kars, Turkey in 1965, he graduated in agricultural sciences at Akdeniz University in Antalya, Turkey in 1991 and then completed a BA in contemporary media practice at Westminster University in London in 2002. He has worked as a journalist, photographer, producer and director. KAR KORSANLARI is his first film.
Filmograpy 2014 Kar Korsanları
Türkei 2014 83 Min. · DCP · Farbe
Regie, Buch: Faruk Hacıhafızoğlu Kamera: M. Türksoy Gölebeyi Schnitt: Orhan Örsman, Ayhan Ergürsel Musik: Mehmet Ünal Sound Design: SertaçToksöz, Yalın Özgencil Ton: Mustafa Bölükbaşı Production Design: Ayla Kanbur Kostüm: Filiz Karaldi Maske: Hülya Karakaş Casting: Aslı Yazır Regieassistenz: Yücel Can, Armağan Lale Produktionsleitung: Halil Erdoğdu Produzent: Faruk Hacıhafızoğlu Ausführender Produzent: Zafer Hacıhafızoğlu
Darsteller: Taha Tegin Özdemir (Serhat) Yakup Özgür Kurtaal (Gürbüz) Ömer Uluç (İbo) Yücel Can (Deli Durdağı) Isa Mastar (Cesur Cello) Ilker Sır (Yeke Cello) Oğuzhan Ulukaya (Mökgem Cello) Arda Ilkin Parlak (Vedat Abi) Figen Oral Cebel (Serhats Mutter) Süreyya Koca (Vedats Mutter) Zeki Aktaş (Efendi Dede)
Produktion Kars Film Istanbul, Türkei +90 536 8990747 karsfilm@gmail.com