Vizontele (2001)

Directed by

Yılmaz Erdoğan

Genre

comedy drama

Country

Turkey

Runtime

1h 50m

Rated

6

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 193 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In an early 1970s Turkish village, the arrival of the first television changes daily life. The story follows local characters as they react to the strange new device with humor and confusion.

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What happens

Vizontele is a 2001 Turkish comedy-drama film, written and directed by Yılmaz Erdoğan and co-directed by Ömer Faruk Sorak, based on the writer-director's childhood memories of the arrival of the first television to his village in the early 1970s. The film, which went on nationwide release on February 2, 2001 (2001-02-02), won three Golden Orange awards and was one of the most successful Turkish films to that date. A sequel, entitled Vizontele Tuuba, involving the director and most of the original cast followed in 2004. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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