Vizontele Tuuba

A gentle, bittersweet village comedy that drifts from warm absurdity into quiet heartbreak as history closes in.

Directed by

Yılmaz Erdoğan

Genres

Comedy, Drama

Starring

Yılmaz Erdoğan, Demet Akbağ, Altan Erkekli

Overview

Guner Sernikli is a government official who, with his wife and their wheelchair bound daughter, has been assigned as the head librarian to this isolated province, virtually an exile since there is no library in the village. The family is warmly welcome, but these are the years of political anarchy and leftist/rightist clashes in big cities and the youth of the village inevitably follow the tides. They arrive in Vizontele, just as the situation is becoming really absurd. Guner brings wisdom; his daughter Tuba brings beauty, innocence and love. Some like the Mayor, Nazmi Dogan and crazy Emin appreciate these things but they are in the minority and confusion continues to reign. The story is based on the memories of writer-director Yılmaz Erdoğan of the last summer of his childhood in Hakkâri, Turkey in 1980.

How it feels

Warm, melancholic, whimsical and tense. Measured and needs your attention.

About

Family, coming-of-age, politics, isolation

Content

Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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