Under Construction

İnşaat

Turkey

2003

113 Min

Color

Turkish

Currently 2.9/5 Stars.
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SCR Ömer Vargı, Serdar Tantekin

CAST Emre Kınay, Şevket Çoruh, Suna Pekuysal, Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan, Yeşim Büber, Binnur Kaya, Tuncay Beyazıt, Ali Yaylı, Murat Bavli, Şehsuvar Aktaş, Aziz İzzet Biçici, Ayse Nil Samlioglu, Sinan Tuzcu

Ali and Sudi are construction workers in an Istanbul slum who dream of earning enough money to go to Italy as illegal workers. When the owner of their work site arrives with a dead body in tow, the two friends nervously decide to move the body to a different location at the site. When word gets out about this makeshift cemetery, Ali and Sudi fall into a new, thriving career as gravediggers for the mafia. This smart, black comedy is somewhat of an anomaly in the very sober world of contemporary Turkish cinema but it is no less insightful in its biting critique of authority and class politics. —Boston Turkish Film Festival

Director

Ömer Vargı

Born in Istanbul in 1953, Ömer Vargi graduated from the Physics Department of the University of Ankara in 1976. His first production jobs were that of an assistant from 1974 to 1977. He then started directing television commercials and since then directed over 1000 commercials. He founded the Link Production Company in 1980 in partnership with Pars/McCann-Erickson, advertising agency. He became a partner in Filma-Cass in 1982 and continued his work in national and international television commercials and full length feature films. He directed his first feature film Everything’s Gonna Be Great in 1998. Under Construction (2003) is the second feature film is directed. —cinemed.tm.fr