alr

Under Construction
(Insaat)

Screening on Film
Directed by Ömer Vargi.
With Sevket Çoruh, Emre Kinay, Suna Pekuysal.
Turkey, 2004, 35mm, color, 108 min.
Turkish with English subtitles.

Ali and Sudi are construction workers in an Istanbul slum who dream of earning enough money to go to Italy as illegal workers. When the owner of their work site arrives with a dead body in tow, the two friends nervously decide to move the body to a different location at the site. When word gets out about this makeshift cemetery, Ali and Sudi fall into a new, thriving career as gravediggers for the mafia. This smart, black comedy is somewhat of an anomaly in the very sober world of contemporary Turkish cinema but it is no less insightful in its biting critique of authority and class politics.

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