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The Yellow Mercedes

1993 · 90 min

A quiet, bittersweet road movie that drifts between past and present, inviting you into a migrant worker's hopes and memories.

Directed by: Tunç Okan
Genres: Comedy, Action, Drama
Starring: İlyas Salman, Valérie Lemoine, Micky Sébastian

Overview: The film is based on 'Fikrimin Ince Gulu', a novel by Adalet Agaoglu, which depicts a first generation gurbetci/guest-worker returning home. It covers his land journey in short bursts from Germany to the Turkey's west border - and extensively from thereon to his village close to Ankara - capital of Turkey. He begins his journey purchasing a second hand yellow Mercedes - possibly his first car - using his meager savings working as a laborer. Offering deep insight into the mind of a manual laborer Bayram (Ilyas Salman) making his first trip back home, resorting to flashbacks in highlighting Bayram's motivation and experiences from his childhood right up to the events leading to his first departure from Turkey to Germany.

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Directed by: Tunç Okan
Genres: Comedy, Action, Drama
Starring: İlyas Salman, Valérie Lemoine, Micky Sébastian

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: identity
immigration
class
memory
family
Places: road trip
small town
countryside
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	2
Horror	0
Humour	4
Realism	8
Romance	2
Tension	3
Darkness	4
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: comedy, action, drama
Directed by: Tunç Okan
Written by: Tunç Okan
Starring: İlyas Salman, Valérie Lemoine, Micky Sébastian, Alexander Gittinger, Savaş Yurttaş, Saadet Gürses, Menderes Samancılar, Serra Yılmaz
Runtime: 90 min
Country: Switzerland, Turkey, France, Germany
Languages: German, Turkish

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