Nizamettîn Ariç is a kurd exiled in Germany because of the Turkish brutality against it's kurdish dense population. Ariç is better known as a singer, but in 1992 he decided to make his own project for cinema. He got the support of a dutch millionaire (Margarita Woskanjan), and the result was this important and unique picture based on the atrocities perpetrated by Turkish army against civilian kurds in the late 80's, early 90's. Sadam Hussein is also mentioned in this context and the film shows a sad contradiction about these two objects of torture and killing: in these years, kurds who live in kurdish areas of Turkey and want to leave the repression can't escape to the other side (kurdish region of Iraq) because there is even more repression and persecution against kurds by Sadam's army. Whith this scenery, we met the kurdish families between a crossed fire which never seems to be finished.
Ariç take the whole control of the film (being the director, writer, costume designer, actor and, of course, music composer) and the result is so successful, except some mistakes in action scene filming (when a Turkish official hit Beko, filmed with wrong shots and without energy) and some mistakes in the script (which leaves some scenes and land situation unclear).
When seeing this kurdish film, analyzing its mistakes and remembering the difficulties carried to make the film, We have to rate this motion picture as it deserves. One of the few kurdish films of 90's and the first one in kurdish language (forbidden in Turkey). A truly important film.
