Wednesday, January 26, 2011

"Koprudekiler" (men on the bridge) in UK Cinemas 28 January 2011 - Fikret Portakal Murat Tokgöz Umut İlker

emreerkmen | May 11, 2009 | likes, 1 dislikes
KÖPRÜDEKİLER / MEN ON THE BRIDGE
www.menonthebridge.com
Plot

Fikret (Fikret Portakal) earns a living by selling roses on the Bosporus Bridge. He also tries working in a restaurant, but it is not an improvement.

Umut (Umut I.lker) is a dolmus, driver on the Taksim-Bostanc? route. He and his girlfriend struggle to pay their apartment rent from their combined wages.

Murat (Murat Tokgöz) is traffic policeman on the Bosporus Bridge. He has dates with women he knows from chatting on internet. Some women are disappointed about his low wages.

The lives and dreams of these three men who live in the ghettos of the big city intersect unknowingly every day with each others’ and those of millions of Istanbulites on the Bosporus Bridge, the heart of the city.


Directed by Aslı Özge
Produced by Fabian Massah
Written by Aslı Özge

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