Duvar
Yılmaz Güney
In dormitory 4 of the Ankara low-security prison, children live and work in terrible conditions. They all hope to escape one day, unless they change prisons or their everyday lives improve, but they constantly come up against the guards' cynicism, particularly Cafer's. What ever they do, they run into a wall.
With : Tuncel Kurtiz, Ayşe Emel Mesci, Malik Berrichi, Nicolas Hossein, Isabelle Tissandier, Ahmet Ziyrek, Ali Berktay, Selahattin Kuzuoğlu
Screenplay : Yılmaz Güney
Image : Izzet Akay
Sound : Serge Guillemin
Music : Ozan Garip Şahin et Setrak Bakirel
Editing : Sabine Mamou
Screenplay : Yılmaz Güney
Image : Izzet Akay
Sound : Serge Guillemin
Music : Ozan Garip Şahin et Setrak Bakirel
Editing : Sabine Mamou
Production : Güney Production, MK2 Production, TF1 Films Production
Distribution: MK2
Distribution: MK2
The Wall is Yilmaz Güney's last, and also darkest, film, based on his different imprisonments. He filmed it during his exile in France. "I didn't want to construct a carbon copy of one Turkish prison. I wanted it to be an amalgam of all the prisons I had known. It was the same with the story. The central plot is the children's revolt from dormitory 4 at the Ankara prison in 1976, but all the individual stories that run parallel to it were told to me or came from my own observations during my days in the different prisons. (...) At times it was hard, even painful, not a bit of kindness was ever shown. There was no other way to give authenticity to the reality. (...) It ‘s up to us to speak of the situation in Turkey, in hopes that one day it will change. But when?" (Yilmaz Güney) "Güney's art never loses itself in front of the hard facts. He wants to transform, not indoctrinate. (Marin Karmitz)