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Kraliçe Lear / Queen Lear
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Kraliçe Lear / Queen Lear

Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’ travelling on the dusty and risky roads to the remotest forgotten villages in the mountains of Turkey where even drinking water can hardly reach, turns delicately into ‘Queen Lear’ in the hands of a peasant-women theatre group.

In the early 2000s, a handful of peasant women from the mountains of southern Turkey formed a theater group, which later became the subject of the documentary, The Play. The women acted out their own life stories in the village, and the play changed their lives. Now, they take to the road with an adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear, traveling the dusty, dangerous roads to the farthest-flung mountain villages where there isn’t even running water. On the road, their lives merge with the world of King Lear and become bound up with “the good and the bad”, “the young and the old”, “the rich and the poor”, “the honest and the dishonest” of the play.

Language

Turkish

Subtitle

English

Year

2017

Director

Pelin Esmer

Producers

Pelin Esmer, Dilde Mahalli

Co-Producers

Barış Bıçakçı, Eda Arıkan, Feride Çiçekoğlu

Camera

Morteza Atabaki, Pelin Esmer

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The Orient Express Film Days will take place in Bern in September 2020.

We show films from Turkey comprehensively and categorically. The Orient Express Film Days are intended to be a platform for current and older feature and documentary films, video art and short films from Turkey. Discussions and workshops are held parallel to the cinema.

The film days last 5 days. From 2nd to 6th September 2020.