Necmettin cobanoglu biography books
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Swiss Director’s ‘Journey of Hope’ Leads to Oscar : Movies: Xavier Koller’s film about a Turkish family escaping to Europe has brought him new acclaim and an Academy Award.
The least publicized of the five Oscar nominees for best foreign-language film, “Journey of Hope,” proved to be the one to beat. It tells of a group of Turks, one family in particular, and its struggle to enter Switzerland any way it can. A film of harrowing emotional impact and sharply critical political and economic implications, it is the work of Zurich, Switzerland-based Xavier Koller, a writer-director heretofore unfamiliar in America, although since he has made four theatrical features and a number of movies for Swiss TV. The film opens in Los Angeles today.
“I feel like a cloud with trousers,” Koller said after “Journey of Hope” won the Oscar, which many observers believed would go to the long-running, widely acclaimed “Cyrano de Bergerac.”
Koller was on his way to Paris in October, , to prepare for his next picture when a brief item in a Swiss newspaper caught his attention--and held it fast. “I wasn’t able to focus on my real work,” Koller recalled in an interview at his Westwood hotel while in town for the Academy Awards. “I woke up at 4 a.m. and knew I had to do it.”
Koller soon completed a p
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Yol (film)
film by Yılmaz Güney and Şerif Gören
Yol (pronounced[joɫ]; translated as The Way,[1][2]The Road[3][4] or The Path[5]) is a Turkish film directed by Yılmaz Güney and Şerif Gören.[6] The screenplay was written by Güney, and directed by his assistant Gören, as Güney was in prison at the time. Later, after Güney escaped from Imrali prison, he took the negatives of the film to Switzerland and later edited it in Paris.[7]
The film is a portrait of Turkey in the aftermath of the Turkish coup d'état: its people and its authorities are shown via the stories of five prisoners given a week's home leave. The film has caused much controversy in Turkey, and was banned until However, it won numerous honours, including the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. It also was selected as the Swiss entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 55th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Plot
[edit]In Turkey, several prisoners are granted temporary leave from prison.[8] One of them, Seyit Ali (Tarık Akan), travels to his house and discovers that, in order to survive, his wife Zine (Şerif Sezer) had to turn to prostitution.[8] Caught by her family, she was
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The Road
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