original title:
Camur
italian title:
Fango
directed by:
cast:
Mustafa Uðurlu, Yelda Reynaud, Bulent Emin Yarar, Taner Birsel, Engin Alkan, Mustafa Ugurlu
screenplay:
cinematography:
editing:
set design:
costume design:
music:
producer:
production:
Downtown Pictures, Rai Cinema, Fabrica, Dschoint Ventschr, Marathon Filmcilik - Artimages. In associazione con TSI (Zurich)
distribution:
world sales:
country:
Italy/Turkey/Cyprus
year:
2003
film run:
93'
format:
35mm - colour
sound:
Dolby SR
release date:
29/08/2003
festivals & awards:
Four 40-something friends are haunted by the violent past of a divided
Cyprus...
Temel wants desperately to speak about the crimes of vengeance he committed
as a teenager. He would like to confess about the bodies buried in the muddy
patch of a dried-up salt lake, but fear holds him back from even going
there. Halil would rather keep the past buried, so he is indifferent to
Temel¹s anguish.
Ali participates in Temel's UN projects aimed at defusing tension between
Cyprus' Greek and Turkish communities. He allows a life-size plaster replica
of himself to travel to the island's southern Greek side to the house he
fled from decades ago. Ali would speak out, if only he had not lost his
voice to a mysterious illness. Despite numerous failed attempts, Aisha still
believes science will help her brother Ali. But Ali knows sometimes more
than medicine is required. So he turns to the rumoured healing powers of the
salt lake's mud. Working a little magic of her own, gynaecologist Aisha
gives her patients the feeling they can bring back those they have lost
through in vitro fertilization.
When Ali stumbles on an ancient fertility statue buried in the mud, Halil
sees a potential opportunity to make them lots of money. But his
get-rich-quick scheme puts everyone in danger...