INSAAT (Under Construction)

As a part of the "Sixth Annual New Films from Europe"
 
Directed by Omer Vargi
Cast: Sevket Coruh, Emre Kinay, Suna Pekuysal
2004, 108 minutes
In Turkish with English subtitles

Ali and Sudi are construction workers in an Istanbul slum who dream of earning enough money to go to Italy as illegal workers. When the owner of their work site arrives with a dead body in tow, the two friends nervously decide to move the body to a different location at the site. When word gets out about this makeshift cemetery, Ali and Sudi fall into a new, thriving career as gravediggers for the mafia. This smart, black comedy is somewhat of an anomaly in the very sober world of contemporary Turkish cinema but it is no less insightful in its biting critique of authority and class politics.

Tuesday, January 24 at 7 p.m.
Wednesday, January 25 at 9 p.m.
Harvard Film Archive
Carpenter Center for the Arts
24 Quincy Street, Cambridge
 
Co-presented by the Boston Turkish Film Festival and the Harvard Film Archive
 
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