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Hope

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Original title

Umut (Hope)

Year

1970

Running time

100 min.

Country

Turkey

Director

Yilmaz Güney, Serif Gören

Screenwriter

Yilmaz Güney, Serif Gören

Cast

Music

Arif Erkin

Cinematography

Kaya Ererez (B&W)

Producer

Güney Film

Genre

Drama | Poverty

Synopsis

"Umut" is the story of an illiterate man and his family, whose existence depends on his income as a horse cab driver. When one of his horses is killed by an automobile, and when it is clear that neither justice nor charity will prevail, the man, played by Güney, begins a slow slide into despair. On the advice of a local holy man, and fuelled by an indefatigable optimism, he sets out into the desert in quest of a mythical lost treasure, slipping further and further into that final, ineluctable moment where hope itself becomes the last terrible delusion.

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Hope

1970

Yilmaz Güney, Serif Gören

7.0

(86)