?lker Çatak's acute and affecting film about a couple in the maelstrom of state repression earned him the Golden Bear at this year's Berlin Film Festival.
Suddenly it's Derya und Aziz's turn. A yellow letter of the kind many others in Turkey have already received reaches the couple, both of whom are artists, issuing them with a prohibition notice. They do their best to come to terms with their new situation and withstand the economic pressure. Yet the issue of resistance vs. accommodation increasingly bleeds into their family's everyday life. GELBE BRIEFE is the first movie the Berlin-based director ?lker Çatak (Das Lehrerzimmer) has filmed entirely in Turkish. In this film of great psychological acuity, Berlin stands in for Istanbul and Hamburg for Ankara. "5 film rolls!" radioeins
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