TAKVA - A MAN'S FEAR OF GOD
by Özer Kiziltan
synopsis
For over 30 years, Muharrem has led a quiet life as an employee in the same traditional part of Istanbul where he was born. A modest, introverted and lonely man of humble circumstances, he is a strict observer of the Islamic precepts: he prays a great deal and practices sexual abstinence. Muharrem’s religious devotion brings him to the attention of the leaders of a rich and powerful religious group. His reputation for being trustworthy and duteous prompts them to offer him job as a rent collector for their numerous properties. Muharrem receives a new set of clothes, he is given a mobile phone and computer; he begins to encounter such things as hypocrisy and alcoholic excess, to his own consternation he discovers his own penchant for tyranny and pride. All at once he finds himself in a world that he had previously succeeded in evading...
international title: | Takva - A Man's Fear of God |
original title: | Takva |
country: | Germany, Turkey |
sales agent: | The Match Factory |
year: | 2006 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Özer Kiziltan |
film run: | 96' |
screenplay: | Onder Cakar |
cast: | Erkan Can, Güven Kiraç, Meray Ülgen, Öznur Kula, Erman Saban, Murat Cemcir, Settar Tanriögen |
cinematography by: | Soykut Turan |
film editing: | Andrew Bird |
art director: | Erol Tastan |
costumes designer: | Ayten Sentürk |
music: | Gökçe Akçelik |
producer: | Sevil Demirci, Onder Cakar, Fatih Akin, Andreas Thiel, Klaus Maeck |
production: | Corazón International, Yeni Sinemacilar (TR) |