Don't Let Them Shoot the Kite
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Directed by | Tunç Başaran |
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Cinematography | Erdal Kahraman |
Music by | Özkan Turgay |
Production company | Magnum Film |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
Country | Turkey |
Language | Turkish |
Don't Let Them Shoot the Kite (
The film is set in 1984
Plot
When a woman is sent to prison for drug
Cast
- Nur Sürer as İnci
- Ozan Bilen as Barış
- Füsun Demirel as Fatma
- Rozet Hubeş as Zeynep
- Güzin Özipek as Sultanteyze
- Güzin Özyağcılar as Selma
- Yasemin Alkaya as Filiz
- Meral Çetinkaya as Safinaz
- Hale Akınlı as Sümbül
Production
The film is based on a 1986 novella by Feride Çiçekoğlu,
Although the film is set in Ankara, many of the prison scenes were filmed in Istanbul's Sultanahmet Jail.[2][6] Ankara's Ulucanlar Prison has also been identified as one of the filming locations.[10]
Critical reception
In The Routledge Dictionary of Turkish Cinema, Gönül Dönmez-Colin calls Don't Let Them Shoot the Kite "one of the classics of Turkish cinema",[3] and in World Film Locations: Istanbul, Özlem Köksal writes that "[Baris] leaning against the imposing prison wall with hands in his pockets is definitely an iconic image in Turkish cinema."[6]
Kevin Thomas of the
See also
- List of submissions to the 62nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
- List of Turkish submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
References
- ^ Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- ^ ISBN 9783319597225.
- ^ ISBN 9781317937265.
- ^ "Don't Let Them Shoot the Kite - watch online | Pantaflix". Pantaflix. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
- ISBN 9781857431223.
- ^ ISBN 9781841505671.
- ^ "Curators Turkish Pavilion". metalocus.es. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
- ^ Emel Anil (12 January 1990). "Turkey makes its first bid for an Oscar nomination". The Globe and Mail.
- ^ a b Vernon Scott (1 February 1990). "The worst thing to happen to Turkey since the..." United Press International. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
- ISSN 1306-3472. Archived from the originalon 17 March 2013. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
- ProQuest 281053391. Archived from the originalon 17 August 2023.
External links
- Don't Let Them Shoot the Kite at IMDb