Agit

Another great social-problem based Turkish movie that anyone can watch. To understand this movie truely you have to know some facts about Turkey like the 70's distant villages lack of resources of any kind like clean water, doctor, medicine, education etc., poverty and still ongoing problems about Kurdish minority whose been severely criticised for their language/freedom rights and the fighting guerillas living in the mountains who can only gain money illegally like smuggling. After that you can truely understand it. Apart from the social aspects of the movie it has a very western vibe to it. Slow sequences of repetitive events makes it truely powerful. Also the movie contains some (for its time very well done) graphic violence. A cult classic of Yilmaz Guney one of my favourite Turkish actors.

That's the first time I see a film from Turkey, at least I think so. And I already know that Yilmaz Güney is a great director from this country, if not the greatest. I have heard that all his life he struggled against tyranny, opression of all kinds. This film could be understood as a sort of image of the Kurde people fight against Turkish authorities. It is also a kind of western full of action and surrounded by terrific settings, with plenty of sequences of rocks rolling downhill from the top of the mountains. The gunshot sound effects look like those you hear in Spaghetti westerns.