Piercing dramatic film "The Butterfly's Dream", exhibited at the "Oscar" of Turkey, dispels misconceptions that Turkish cinema today may be interested in the international film market only melodramatic soap operas.

Surviving in spite

The plot of "Butterfly Dream" is simple and complicated at the same time. In the yard in 1941, Europe in flames of World War II. Turkey is trying to avoid a confrontation with one of the parties, the country's population is suffering from poverty and hunger Psychology and physiology of hunger - the two sides of the same coin . In a small town, two young poet, two other TB patients, trying to survive and do they support each other and fight social inequality, harassment, persecution and religious prejudices.

Rusten Onur (Mert Firat) and Muzaffer Uslu (Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ) find love and inspiration in the face of a young and charismatic Susan (Belçim Bilgin). They argue that it still does not belong to the feelings of unsuspecting girls, arranging literary duel. The boys decide to devote his beloved poems that she chose those that enjoy it more, and so determine the winner. The loser will also be forced to "leave the stage" and does not interfere with the opponent.

Canvas drama

The director and scriptwriter of "The Dream Butterfly" Yilmaz Erdogan ("Once Upon a Time in Anatolia") creates a movie nervous, feeling the heavy atmosphere of trouble and contrasting her desperate desire to live their characters. Intertwined youthful romantic attitude to love and cruel despair of reality, creating intense action. Love triangle tightly binds the characters in intricate knot of relations, promises and aspirations.

At first glance, the drama consists of two elements predictable rivalry of two young men and women of goodwill to survive in harsh conditions, supported by the spirit of rebellion and a desire for something better. The viewer does not appear with the factory workers, not the drivers or officials, and poets, people priori endowed with the ability to feel thinner and brighter world, taking to heart the problems of others, pay attention to detail. In their souls inherent desire for beauty, which is so little in the environment where they are.

The atmosphere of the film is replaced with a pressure in the lyric. The director uses a cinematic perfect opportunity to convey how hard the characters is given every day, they live in an invisible prison, which creates a society for them, because of the insulating views, because of illness, because otherness. The scenes that are filled with sunshine and full of bright colors, the dark and imbued with the fear of death and madness. The disease that can kill them at any time, gives rise to a heightened desire to live and enjoy every day.

The main characters in the performance Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ and Murtagh Firat outwardly resemble little resemblance to the rebels. Actors create different characters on the screen, but at the same time, their characters have a lot in common: detached lost look, angular shape, some tightness in his movements. The series also stars: Farah Zeynep Abdullah, Yilmaz Erdogan, Ahmet Taylan Myumtaz, Taner Birsel, Selman Unlusoy, İpek Bilgin, Axel Bonfil.

From the movie in the series

"The Dream of a Butterfly" is a bit like "Pearl Harbor" and other similar films about war, love and confrontation against the backdrop of the tragic events. So, it is not an American drama in which the good must necessarily defeat the evil in the Turkish film greater truthfulness and bitter moments, causing tears in the audience sympathy. Yilmaz Erdogan creates a beautiful story, first building up the story in the script, and then - on the screen embodying the idea, infusing in her mood. Eternal themes of love, friendship, war and death find their place in the film and did not seem unnatural phony.

The name refers to the drama on the transience of life similar to the butterfly that dies with the onset of cold weather. Heroes "Butterfly Dream" bask on their feelings and hopes for the future, but there are only a cold and despair. They themselves are like butterflies who were born only to briefly bring to the world of beauty.

The film "The Butterfly's Dream" bought for display and distribution in more than fifty countries. For Russia, a feature-length drama was divided into four parts to make it a short series.

Anna Chizh

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