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Construction (İnşaat)

Construction (İnşaat) (translated)

Movie · 2003 · 11 people

Ömer Vargı directed the black comedy İnşaat (Construction), released on November 21, 2003. Using comedy to portray society's dead ends, it is Vargı's second film as director after Her Şey Çok Güzel Olacak, keeping the first film's formulas while enriching them. Filma-Cass made it and Warner Bros. distributed; it scores highly on film sites.

The story unfolds in an apartment block being built by Nizamettin (Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan), a crime boss's driver. Two workers with very different dreams, Ali (Emre Kınay) and Sudi (Şevket Çoruh), are forced one day to bury a dead man in the back yard. It is not the last time: the site gains a reputation for secretly burying the murdered, and the pair take on forced grave-digging and part-time sheikhdom. When people who believe they have good reason to kill meet at the site, things get tangled; Ali and Sudi, neck-deep, look for a way out, with a made-up sheikh story in play. Binnur Kaya, Yeşim Büber (Nazife), Bahtiyar Engin and Günay Karacaoğlu are also in the cast.

The screenplay is by Ömer Vargı and Serdar Tantekin, and Vargı and Mine Vargı produced. Frenc Pap shot it and Ömer Özgür composed the music. A critic singled out the bright performances and clever references.

DirectorÖmer Vargı
Production companyFilma Cass

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Emre Kınay Emre Kınay Actor · 56 years old Ali Şevket Çoruh Şevket Çoruh Actor · 53 years old Sudi Bahtiyar Engin Bahtiyar Engin Actor · 61 years old Günay Karacaoğlu Günay Karacaoğlu Actor · 55 years old Television girl Yeşim Büber Yeşim Büber Actor · 49 years old Nazife Yıldız Kaplan Yıldız Kaplan Singer · 56 years old Beautiful woman Şehsuvar Aktaş Şehsuvar Aktaş Actor · born 1964 Sedat Sinan Tuzcu Sinan Tuzcu Actor · 49 years old Cemal Binnur Kaya Binnur Kaya Actor · 54 years old Ayşe Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan Actor · 61 years old Nizamettin Suna Pekuysal Actor · died at 74 Old Woman

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Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

İnşaat is a film unafraid to take its black comedy all the way. Ömer Vargı stays true to the formulas of Her Şey Çok Güzel Olacak but gathers the tension largely around a rising apartment block, and that spatial squeeze gives the story a strong metaphor. Emre Kınay and Şevket Çoruh play the absurdity without overdoing it, which keeps the humor grounded. Frenc Pap's cinematography and Ömer Özgür's score support the dark tone. The weak spot is the made-up sheikh storyline, which at times crowds out everything else; the pile-up of incidents muddies the rhythm here and there. Even so, it is a bold script that makes you think about dead ends while you laugh.

Family Viewer Asks whether the whole household can watch it; cares about humor and heart.

İnşaat is funny, but it is not a film for children. The story revolves around murders and bodies buried in secret, and the mafia is involved too. The humor is dark and sometimes harsh. For older teenagers and adults it can make an enjoyable evening. For small children, and for grown-ups who are uneasy with this kind of subject, it is better to pick something else.

History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

The film squeezes the dead ends people run into in every corner of society onto a single building site. Two laborers with very different dreams end up shouldering the dirty work of an order that is not theirs at all, a sharp observation about the helplessness of working people. That the block is being put up by a mob boss's driver reads like an ironic note on who builds the city, and how. People who are sure their killings were justified converging on the site paints a society where justice is left to private scores. The invented sheikh story, meanwhile, satirises how easily faith can be turned into a way out.

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