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Iron Earth, Copper Sky

1987 · 94 min

A slow, symbolic village drama that asks you to sit with its weight rather than rush through it.

Directed by
Zülfü Livaneli
Genres
Drama
Starring
Rutkay Aziz, Macide Tanır, Serap Aksoy
Overview
In this deeply symbolic and visually lush film, as far as Tashbash is concerned, he's just a malcontent, a fairly ordinary hell-raiser who has gotten into trouble with the law in the past. Sure, he hates the village headman who is a toady to the region's oppressive landlord, and he dislikes the fact that everyone looks to the headman for help because they have no place else to turn, but he's just an ordinary guy and has no solutions for his fellow villagers. However, after one of them has a vision in which Tashbash is shown to be a manifestation of one of their more important local saints, the villagers unite as one in seeking him out for help with the upcoming visit of the landlord to collect rents which they can't pay. Their adulation and reverence is so persistent that eventually even Tashbash becomes a believer.

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Directed by
Zülfü Livaneli
Genres
Drama
Starring
Rutkay Aziz, Macide Tanır, Serap Aksoy
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Tone
    Pacing
    slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • faith
    • class
    • power
    • identity
    • survival
    Places
    • countryside
    Era
    period
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    None
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence mild
    • Sex mild
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action2
    Horror2
    Humour2
    Realism7
    Romance2
    Tension5
    Darkness6
    Complexity6
    Emotional weight7

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    Details

    Genres
    drama
    Directed by
    Zülfü Livaneli
    Written by
    Yaşar Kemal
    Starring
    Rutkay Aziz, Macide Tanır, Serap Aksoy, Yavuzer Çetinkaya, Yasemin Alkaya, Tuncay Akça, Melih Çardak, Eray Özbal
    Cinematography
    Jürgen Jürges
    Runtime
    94 min
    Country
    Turkey
    Languages
    Turkish

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