Underplayed Gems

Breath (2009)

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Original title
Nefes: Vatan Sağolsun
Directed by
Levent Semerci
Genre
drama film, war film, military film
Country
Turkey
Runtime
2h 08m
Rated
13+
Rating
7.3 of 10 from 143 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Forty Turkish soldiers guard a remote relay station near the Iraqi border. They face long stretches of quiet tension and sudden bursts of violence in their fight against PKK militants.

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What happens

Breath (Turkish: Nefes: Vatan Sağolsun, literally Breath: Long Live the Homeland) is a 2009 Turkish drama film directed by Levent Semerci. The film, which tells the story of 40 soldiers in charge of protecting a relay station near the Iraqi border in southeastern Turkey, was adapted from the short stories Tales from the Southeast and Ground Minus Zero by Hakan Evrensel and is, according to Hürriyet Daily News reviewer Emine Yıldırım, the first Turkish film that tackles, through an authentic perspective and convincing realness, the contemporary situation of the Turkish army and its long battle with the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) . The film went on general release across Turkey on October 16, 2009 (2009-10-16) and won two awards at the 3rd Yeşilçam Awards as well as being one of the highest-grossing films of 2009, prompting its re-release on July 23, 2010 (2010-07-23). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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