Propaganda (Film)

• Kemal Sunal: Mehdi
• Metin Akpınar: Rahim
• Meltem Cumbul: Filiz
• Rafet el Roman: Adem
• Meral Orhonsay: Şahane
• Ali Sunal: Mahmut

Propaganda is a Turkish film from 1999 by Sinan Çetin under its own script. The tragicomedy is the last movie of the popular Turkish comedian Kemal Sunal and was a great success in Turkey, but also received eleven awards internationally.

In Germany the film was presented by Warner Bros. and box-office hit.

Content

The action takes place in 1948. Border Protection officer Mehdi is instructed to pass through his home village until then invisible border with Syria. He accomplishes this task without regard to actual circumstances, since the villagers to be henceforth separated by a border station and a fence to see has always been as a people. Passports have also not most. Capital problems arise: The doctor can not take care of all the sick, the teacher of the way to school will be denied, families, friends and lovers are separated. Of which itself is Mehdi's son, whose fiancee lives in the other part of the village, affected ...

Criticism

Which is based on a true story story is told according to Silvia Hallensleben " old-fashioned and with some tongue in cheek (...). With their anti- authoritarian thrust of this political parable is a scathing attack not only against the Turkish nationalism. Unfortunately comes Propaganda - contrary to one's own claim - quite patriarchal therefore. As writer and director Sinan Cetin his heroines narrative subordinates of evocation of father-son men's friendships, leaves a bad taste. "