Rutkay Aziz

This is about origin of republic of Türkiye.

Based on a short story from Kara Kitap (The Black Book) by Orhan Pamuk, with Pamuk writing the screenplay, Gizli Yüz takes the viewer on a mystical journey where time becomes an important leitmotif.

In 1940's Turkey, the world in the eyes of a child.

A retired teacher and a very succesful female banker meets at a holiday resort incidentally. The woman is sick and tired of her workload/housework and his husband while the man has escaped from his monotonous lifestyle. He is up to settle in a village nearby where he thinks he will live his dream in solitude. While looking for a place to rent, they get close and fall in love with each other. But their lifestyles and characters are quite different.

Eser, who wants to talk to her husband while making a decision about the future of her daughter, decides to go to the island for this. On this occasion, a great reckoning begins between the couple, who come together again years later.

Two Turkish brothers find themselves on opposite sides of the political fence. When one of the brothers is murdered, the boys' father suspects that his surviving son was instrumental in the killing. Celebrated film director Elia Kazan returns to his acting roots in a key supporting role.

In this deeply symbolic and visually lush film, as far as Tashbash is concerned, he's just a malcontent, a fairly ordinary hell-raiser who has gotten into trouble with the law in the past. Sure, he hates the village headman who is a toady to the region's oppressive landlord, and he dislikes the fact that everyone looks to the headman for help because they have no place else to turn, but he's just an ordinary guy and has no solutions for his fellow villagers. However, after one of them has a vision in which Tashbash is shown to be a manifestation of one of their more important local saints, the villagers unite as one in seeking him out for help with the upcoming visit of the landlord to collect rents which they can't pay. Their adulation and reverence is so persistent that eventually even Tashbash becomes a believer.