Autumn

Autumn

Sentenced to jail in 1997 a sa university student aged 22, Yusuf is released on health grounds ten years later. He returns to his village in the eastern Black Sea region, where he’s welcomed only by his sick and ederly mother. It turns out that his father died while he was in jail and his older sister got married and moved away to the city. Economic factors mean that it’s almost exclusively old people who live in the mountain village, and the only person Yusuf see is his childhood friend Mikail. As Autumn slowly gives way to Winter, Yusuf goes with Mikail to a tavern where he meets Eka, a beautiful young Georgian hooker. Neither the timing nor circumstances are right for these two people from different worlds to be together. For all that, love becomes a final despeate attempts to grasp life and elude loneliness for Yusuf at least. For Eka, Yusuf is something like a character from the pages of the Russian novel: a character who inhabits a far away world and a far away time. With the 1990’s as a backdrop the film at once documents and critices a slice of recent history, exposing the irony, ruthlesness and reality of te period.

Germany
106'
2008

Director
Özcan Alper

Script
Özcan Alper

Cinematography
Feza Çaldıran

Editing
Thomas Balkenhol

Production
Kuzey Film Production

Cast
Megi Kobaladze
Nino Lejavo
Onur Saylak
Raife Yenigül
Serkan Keskin

Music
Ersin Çelik

Festivals
14th Festival on Wheels
GOLDEN GAIN INTERNATIONAL FILM COMPETITION