TURKEY
ZAVALLIVAR The poor
1975 – 35mm – colore - 85’
Direction: Yilmaz Güney, Atif Yilmaz
Screenplay: Yilmaz Güney, Atif Yilmaz
Cinematography: Kenan Ormanlar, Gani Turanli
Original music: Attila Özdemiroglu, Sanar Yurdatapan
Cast: Yilmaz Güney, Yildirim Önal, Güven Sengil, Göktürk Demirezen, Birtane Gungor, Seden Kiziltunç, Mehmet Sahiner, Hülya Sengül, Kamran Usluer
Production: Güney Fil
SYNOPSIS
Three prisoners have come out of prison one winter evening. Flashbacks tell the facts that sent them to prison. The three go through Istanbul starving, cold and penniless. They stop at a restaurant and have dinner. When they have to pay, two of them vanish and the third one is taken to the police…
CRITICAL NOTE
“Atif Yilmaz has succeeded in an enterprise almost unique in the history of cinema: with the footage of the film Zavallivar that corresponds to about one third of the film, and without the possibility to use Güney, who is the protagonist, he carries out the film all the same, completely changing the script and giving us one of the greatest film of Turkish, and probably, international realist current.” (Attila Dorsay)
AWARD
1975 Festival Antalya: Best Supporting Actress (Seden Kiziltunç)
