Propaganda (1999)

Directed by

Sinan Çetin

Genre

comedy film

Country

Turkey

Runtime

1h 47m

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 91 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A government officer arrives in a remote Turkish village in 1948 to establish a border checkpoint and enforce customs rules. His strict policies cause chaos and absurd conflicts among the sleepy community.

darkly comicsatiricalabsurdistearthyslow-burnnostalgicunsettlingsocially observant

What happens

Propaganda is a 1999 Turkish comedy drama film written, directed and produced Sinan Çetin. The film, which is a darkly surreal comedy set in a sleepy village in the southeast Turkey in 1948, starred popular comedy actor Kemal Sunal, who died a year later in 2000. It was shown in competition at the 18th Istanbul International Film Festival and the 4th Shanghai International Film Festival, where it won the Golden Goblet, and went on general release across Turkey on January 5, 1999 (1999-01-05). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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