Kuma

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Nihal Koldas, Begüm Akkaya
KUMA by Umut Dag
AUT 2011, Panorama
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Murathan Muslu
KUMA by Umut Dag
AUT 2011, Panorama
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When Ayşe celebrates her wedding almost everyone in her Turkish village believes her to have married Hasan who is just a few years her senior. But in fact, she is sent to Vienna as Hasan’s father Mustafa’s second wife. She arrives in Austria and receives a mixed welcome from her new family. At first, Mustafa’s children, some of whom are older than Ayşe, turn their back on the girl. Only Fatma, Mustafa’s wife of many years who is now dying of cancer, seems genuinely pleased: now she can be assured of a good successor to tend to her husband, to whom she has been a loyal and obedient Muslim wife.
A special friendship involves between the two different women but this relationship is soon put to the test when the family has to face a stroke of fate.
Director Umut Dag’s description of the complex microcosm of a Turkish family living in Vienna displays a great deal of sensitivity in a work that explores the relationship between the old and the new, loyalty and friendship, and is not afraid to broach deep-seated emotions.
A special friendship involves between the two different women but this relationship is soon put to the test when the family has to face a stroke of fate.
Director Umut Dag’s description of the complex microcosm of a Turkish family living in Vienna displays a great deal of sensitivity in a work that explores the relationship between the old and the new, loyalty and friendship, and is not afraid to broach deep-seated emotions.
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Umut Dağ
The Panorama of the 62nd Berlinale opened on February 9, 2012 with the directorial debut of Umut Dağ Kuma.
KUMA · Panorama · Feb 09, 2012

Begüm Akkaya
The leading actress at the premiere of Kuma.
KUMA · Panorama · Feb 09, 2012

Murathan Muslu, Alev Irmak, Nihal Koldaş, Umut Dağ, Wieland Speck, Begüm Akkaya, Dilara Karabayır
Panorama director Wieland Speck and the director of the film Kuma Umut Dağ (center) with his actors.
KUMA · Panorama · Feb 09, 2012

The film crew
Umut Dağ did not only introduce his actors, but his whole film crew and his parents.
KUMA · Panorama · Feb 09, 2012