Yara
  • motion picture
  • 1h 38m

Yara

  • 1998
  • Director Yilmaz Arslan

Hülya a young Turkish girl, torn between two cultures, lives against her will at her uncle's place in Turkey. Hülya runs away from her uncle's house. She wants to return to Germany where she lived with her father and went to school only a short time ago. The tragic heroine Hülya leads us to a magical oriental odyssey through Turkey. On this journey she meets different people who rescue her life, sometimes in the very last minute. She ends up in prison and finally in a psychiatric hospital. In this hospital time and personal needs of the heroine have ceased to exist. All of a sudden Hülya's family appears and even her german girl friend who has organized this meeting in the hospital. Hülya is discharged an can return to Germany. In Germany, however, the heroine's odyssey rapidly proceeds to its end with her final loss of identity.

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With Yelda Reynaud, Nur Sürer, Halil Ergün, Füsun Demirel, Necmettin Çobanoglu, Özay Fecht
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Synopsis

Hülya a young Turkish girl, torn between two cultures, lives against her will at her uncle's place in Turkey.

Hülya runs away from her uncle's house. She wants to return to Germany where she lived with her father and went to school only a short time ago.

The tragic heroine Hülya leads us to a magical oriental odyssey through Turkey. On this journey she meets different people who rescue her life, sometimes in the very last minute.

She ends up in prison and finally in a psychiatric hospital. In this hospital time and personal needs of the heroine have ceased to exist.

All of a sudden Hülya's family appears and even her german girl friend who has organized this meeting in the hospital. Hülya is discharged an can return to Germany.

In Germany, however, the heroine's odyssey rapidly proceeds to its end with her final loss of identity.

Details

Duration
1h 38m
Format
35mm, Farbe, 1:1.85
Production
Coproduction Germany/Switzerland/Turkey Yilmaz Arslan Filmproduktion, Heidelberg; Gün-Izi, Istanbul; Vega Film, Zürich Gefördert aus Mitteln der Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg, WDR, HR, Hoppe-Ritter Kunstförderung, T.C. Kültürbakanligi und Eurimages

Credits

Director
Yilmaz Arslan
Script
Yilmaz Arslan
Producer
Yilmaz Arslan, Murat Kardiogul, Ruth Waldburger
Cast
Yelda Reynaud, Nur Sürer, Halil Ergün, Füsun Demirel, Necmettin Çobanoglu, Özay Fecht
Photography
Jürgen Jürges (BVK)
Editing
André Bendocchi Alves
Sound
João Da Costa Pinto
Music
Rabih Abou-Khalil
Versions
Ovd