Beyza'nin Kadinlari - Shattered Soul - Director Mustafa Altioklar - 6th Boston Turkish Film Festival

SHATTERED SOUL (Beyza'nin Kadinlari)

Directed by Mustafa Altioklar

Cast: Tamer Karadağlı, Demet Evgar, Levent Uzumcu
2006, 128 min. 35mm. In Turkish with English subtitles The crime psychological thriller Shattered Soul calls its viewer to solve the mystery of a series of murders… Seemingly content with the way her life goes, and deeply in love with her psychiatrist husband Doruk, Beyza is thrown off balance with strange, occasional memory blackouts. Meanwhile, a number of mutilated legs found around Istanbul push the city into the terror of a serial murderer. The Police Lieutenant Fatih investigates the gruesome murders with his new expert partner, Doruk. As the police follows the trails of the murderer, Beyza faces the truth about herself: a relationship, which even she cannot explain, exists between herself and the victims. Shattered Soul is a film based on one hand a constantly deepening serial murder mystery, on the other hand on a woman on the brink of a splitting personality who faces her own demons.

Director MUSTAFA ALTIOKLAR:

Born in 1958. He finished high school in 1976, at the TED Ankara College. He graduated from the Istanbul University Cerrahpasa Faculty of Medicine. He completed the program at the Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Department of the Gazi University to become a qualified specialist. Started his career on filming by shooting short films in 1989.