Propaganda Page #4

Synopsis: Based on a true story set in 1948, customs officer Mehti is faced with the duty of formally setting up the border between Turkey and Syria, dividing his hometown. He is unaware of the pain that will eminently unfold, as families, languages, cultures and lovers are both ripped apart and clash head on in a village once united.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Director(s): Sinan Çetin
  3 wins & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Year:
1999
120 min
113 Views


- So, what'll you do there?

There are motor factories,

I'll get a good job.

You can't take two steps

without a passport...

...how will you

go to Colorado?

- You need a passport every where?

- Every where.

- Mr. Rahim.

- Welcome, Hood.

- I came on time, didn't t I?

- I'll have a couple of words with you.

Filiz, so you decided to marry me!

Good for you.

And whom would you marry but

the friend of great big Ismet Pasha?

Don't fly high, Hood,

come over here.

You know what? You've done a

good job, giving your daughter to me.

- I haven't yet, we'll talk.

- You know, I have...

...influential friends in Ankara.

- Yes, that's a fact.

As for Hislihisar, we're well off here,

thanks to God. Then who but me...

...can satis fy your daughter?

- Yes, yes, be patient, bro.

Rahim, from now on

I'll call you father.

Well, thanks a lot, you can alway s

call me father, but let's talk first.

- What else shall we talk about?

- Wait, will you.

Rahim, it's such a famous

song, New York, New York.

- Yes, from the suburbs of New York.

- Will you dance with me, please?

Woman, get off,

now's no time to dance.

Sonny bring some raki to us,

let's drink and eat something.

Filiz, girlie,

what have you done?

Why did you run away? Did the

gendarmerie see you? Come here.

Damn, everything is destroyed.

I was going to abduct you any way.

I've talked to my father today.

I have to go to Ankara.

No other passage.

I have to get a passport.

Why did you run away just now?

Would the child wait for Ankara's

orders to be born? Lt'll get bigger,

I'll be the laughing stock of the town.

Yaar came to ask for my hand.

I've passed through the wires.

The gendarmerie were a fter me.

Come on.

Isn't this the house of Mr. Mehdi,

the Customs Director?

- Yes, it is.

- Then she can't be here.

- Just do your duty.

- All right then, you come with me.

Upstairs, upstairs,

go through the roof.

Look at the woodshed.

The criminal is here, find her.

Yes, Mr. Adem, now we'll get you.

Mr. Mehdi, Director.

Mr. Mehdi, traces of the runaway

were found on the wires.

What runaway?

You to the right.

- What the hell?

- They say there's a runaway.

Father!

You bastard!

- It's over with my service register.

- What happened, Mehdi?

- What do I say to Ankara?

- Whatever has happened?

- Filiz is with Adem.

- What?

Don't say anything

to the gendarmerie.

We couldn't find her.

There's only this room le ft.

- She's not here, either, Commissar.

- Where can I find her?

How do I know?

It's not good that

my father saw us.

We have to leave immediately.

- Mahmut is outside.

- Sh*t!

- Director, the runaway is here.

- Get her!

- Adem!

- Stop, what are you doing?

Father!

Father, do something!

Father, say something!

Adem, Adem! Let me go!

Adem, you can't help her.

Leave that to me.

You'll learn the rules of Customs

organization.

My favorite flower is the thorn

in the mountains, my favorite animal...

...is the camel in the desert.

- But why?

I would be as strong as they are.

I have an upset stomach.

- And no hope le ft.

- Don't worry Filiz.

They can't hold you here, can they?

You're no murderer...

no thie f. You'll see, our child will

also be born, please don't be anxious.

Look, just you look at me,

smile. I miss you.

Everything will be fine.

Filiz!

Filiz., I'll tell you something. I wasn't

going to give you to Yaar, child.

- I know.

- I did that just to...

I know, I know, I know.

Father, I m not angry with you.

Open sesame.

Oh, hello, citizens of the

sister country!

How are you, are you well?

Father, please don't ever!

Filiz don't you worry a bit.

Neither you, father.

I'll go to Ismet Pasha,

maybe he'll come here himself?

And Mehdi will get blue

in the face. Don't you be a fraid.

Yaar is your support. Now I'll go and

have a couple of words with Mehdi.

- B ye bye.

- May you go, but never come back!

So long, I'm going

to my own country.

In God s name, there's nothing

like one s own country.

The very esteemed Director of

Customs, Mr. Mehdi, you've made...

...an grievous mistake.

You are unaware and...

...led astray.

- What's that?

Well, you have arrested the fiance

of Yaar Mertolu...

...the extraordinary

figure of Hislihisar.

- Buzz off be fore I arrest you, too.

- Send Filiz to her country...

...be fore Ismet Pasha hears of this.

I swear no one else will know.

- Soldiers, take him away.

- I forgive you. I'll take Filiz...

...to her country and marry her.

Filiz, girlie, why did they

throw you in here?

Because I've violated the border. I've

committed a crime, Adem, my love.

Just wait, I have an idea.

- Father, arrest me too.

- Why's that?

I have committed

an ideological crime.

- What's that?

- I'm thinking bad things about the...

...state and Customs.

- Look what we've brought you.

Don't be a fraid.

Osman, take these to Filiz.

Mr. Director,

they're violating the border.

Just now there was something

in their hands, now there's nothing.

- Don't let them smuggle things.

- Could be. Go in and take a look.

Take this, child, and give it to her.

- Mr. Director, just as I thought.

- You don't say.

It's like state provisions office. We

have to shoot anyone getting close.

- Then do what you have to do.

- Soldiers.

Aren't you going to arrest me?

What's that, move over, move,

you geezers.

Mr. Rahim, take those

and move away from the border.

- What if we don't go?

- I'll order them to shoot you.

- Do, then.

- Attention! Take aim!

- Father, don't worry. I'm fine.

- Pull this away, will you? Let's go.

We've only a life le ft to us,

let them take that too.

Father, let's go.

You are Turkish soldiers. You can't

point your guns at Turkish citizens.

This is wrong, Turkish soldiers

can't shoot Turks.

It's written in no law,

what the hell is this?

This is your country. Do you think

what you're doing is right.

You two, don't go any where.

Move.

- My mother has le ft the house.

- Le ft for where?

- For Sarkam, for my aunt's.

- Where did she run to, I said?

Mehdi, take a look at Customs Law,

see what civil servants do when

- their wives run away.

- Turks don't carry propaganda...

...against Turks. This is our country,

we have saved it and now...

...you don't let us

pass through here.

You are making

propaganda against us.

Sh*t. Why have you let her,

you idiot, why have you?

Come, mother.

Father is nuts.

Maybe this will bring him

to his senses. He deserves it all.

Don't be sad.

You wouldn't have lived through

these if you had a passport.

But they don't give passports

to everybody.

You must know some people in

Ankara. People of high position...

...isn't that so?

- But of course.

They don't give the state's

documents to anybody.

What happened, Mr. Adem?

You're not answering me.

Well, whatever, the bird has flown

from the nest. Didn't Rahim come...

...to me and say, please save me

from this sluggish Adem.

Didn't he come right here and cry

"Come and take Filiz?"

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