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Fate
(Yazgi)

Screening on Film
Directed by Zeki Demirkubuz.
With Serdar Orcin, Zeynep Tokus, Demir Karahan.
Turkey, 2001, 35mm, color, 119 min.
Turkish with English subtitles.

Based in part on Albert Camus's novel The Stranger, Fate is the first film directed by Demirkubuz as part of a trilogy of films called "Tales About Darkness." Unable to make any decisions, office worker Musa (Serdar Orcin) absorbs the death of his mother, a passionless marriage, and his own imprisonment for a crime he didn't commit without any reaction. A portrayal of a passive man alienated from the world around him, Fate is an ambiguous and philosophical film about modern life.

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