CONFESSION (İtiraf)
- Directed
by Zeki Demirkubuz
- Cast:
Taner
Birsel, Başak Köklükaya
- 2001,
91 min.
- In
Turkish with English subtitles
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- Harun,
a rich and successful engineer, learns of the betrayal of his wife Nilgün.
However, as he does not want to believe it, or else in order not to lose the
beautiful wife that he is still in love with, he does not face this
situation in the beginning, and does not tell his wife what he knows.
However, time is heavy and painful in passing, and uncertainty is
unbearable. When he finally decides to have a face off and have his wife
confess everything, a long night of “interrogation” starts. While the
couple, married for seven years, advance in the darkness of being human, it
becomes impossible to identify who’s who. Begging turns into violence,
tears mix with screams. When morning comes, everything is over and Harun is
face to face with the “truth” that he has been seeking for such a long
time. However, this is not the truth of his wife’s betrayal, but that of
his betrayal of his best friend years ago.
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- "There
is not much drawback to living without a knowledge as to whom we are, what
we are living through, without getting curious of truth. We can even say
that this may prove to be good for people of our day. On the other hand, the
opposite has many drawbacks. First of all, time passes heavily and
painfully. Nothing seems to suffice. But the worst is at the end. After such
a long road taken, there is neither a new place to reach nor any new thing
to understand. We feel ourselves betrayed and like shit. But if there is no
possibility of some other thing happening and if I do not now this, or do
not deceive myself, I think that it is worth everything even to live through
this pain. Otherwise I wouldn’t dare to make five films on “empty
obsessions” like evil and hopelessness in a world where such big and
fantastic stories are lived through, a world so full of such meaningful and
lofty values." - Zeki Demirkubuz
ZEKİ
DEMİRKUBUZ
Born
in Isparta in 1964. He has graduated from the Department of Communications at
Istanbul University. He began his film career as an assistant to director Zeki
Ökten in 1986 and worked as assistant director until making "Block
C", his first feature film, in 1994. His following films, “Innocence”
(1997) and “The Third Page” (1999) won many awards. He directed FATE and
CONFESSION, the first two films of his “Tales About Darkness” trilogy, in
2001.
Filmography:
1994
C Blok / Block C
1997
Masumiyet / Innocence
1999
Üçüncü Sayfa / The Third Page
2001
Yazgı / Fate
İtiraf / Confession