TURKEY
ARKADAS Friend
1974 – 35mm – colourd - 105’
Direction: Yilmaz Güney
Screenplay: Yilmaz Güney
Cinematography: Cetin Tunca
Music: Attila Özdemiroglu, Sanar Yurdatapan
Cast: Yilmaz Güney, Kerim Afsar, Melike Demirag, Azra Balkan
Production: Güney Film
SYNOPSIS
An agronomist arrives in a tourist village on Turkish coast in order to visit an old friend, a successful architect. The friend's catalyst charisma throws the architect into crisis and his family into confusion. In the meantime the agronomist tries to indoctrinate a group of proletarians of the village with the class struggle. After assaulting his friend, the architect will be persuaded to accompany him to his native village in Anatolia…
CRITICAL NOTE
“ (…) Güney skilfully sets western lifestyle and value system, Turkish bourgeoisie has tried to assimilate without real success, against the country world, that is going through the difficult period of the transition from feudalism to capitalism. He shows that none of these attempts lead to a real solution, that the way to go is to be found somewhere else. (…)” (Attila Dorsay)
AWARDS
1975 Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival: Best Music, Second Place as Best Film
