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Excellent adaptation.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

I've never been a fan of Kemal Sunal, his comedy style got on my nerves (nur icinde yatsin). In Propaganda, he was a delight, as was the entire cast.Other viewers have commented (possible spoiler)that in eastern Anatolia a pregnant daughter would not have been so easily accepted. Granted in the average home it would not have, BUT....Rahim was not your stereotypical ignorant Anatolian. He was a WISE, compassionate and loyal man. Loyal to his friends, and loyal to his family. How wonderful that the writer could portray a Turkish father who loves his daughter and her happiness is his priority! I think we have all seen ENOUGH movies where out of wedlock pregnancy is automatically a disgrace.There is much in government that doesn't make sense, but we go along with it, perhaps thinking, "well it doesn't make sense to me, but it does to everyone else, so I'm not going to question it." (i.e. the electoral college in the US). This is a movie that points out the nonsenses of bureaucracy.The installation of fences and the definite marking of boundaries was a new process in the 40's. Certainly the government made mistakes, and didn't think everything through at the onset. It is not difficult to imagine that there was no immediate process for citizens that were living on the "other side". (SPOILER) When the family crashes through the gate, it may seem silly at first, but think about it, it was sure to bring faster results than letters and petitions to Ankara. This movie was a pleasure to watch.

I watched the movie on Cd last night and cannot believe again the poor handling of the topic by the most-pretentious director of Turkey who just happens to be hosting a sopa-opera-style TV show where separated couples are brought together (tears to my eyes...). The director has the notorious background of imitating Hollywood style and making films which do not have the depth a work of cinema should have in order to be considered as a work of art. My criticism for "Eskiya" applies to this movies also: The movie is more a critic of the Turkish bureaucracy rather that a commment on the Southeastern life. The film is quite unrealistic and it seems as if the degree of such an unrealism is the director's struggle to add some comic relief, a funny dimension to the movie. However what happens is a bad mixture of failed surrealism (yes.. remember the barren landscape and Colorado-runaway-plot and pregnant-but-acceptable-girl) with far-fetched social commentary. The film ends with the most ridiculous eway it could do. You cannot help but ask what will happen when they break the border. You do not leave the theatre relieved but rather with a more troubled and worried mind. What's more I guess the performance problems of Kemal Sunal is much more serious that that of the film itself. He seems to have ended his career artistically with this movie ( I do not mention Cumbul and El Roman who even did not start serious artistic careers at all). His acting lacks enthusiasm and is artificial. Do not expect to see the Saban performances. I could go on forever talking about the gaps in the plot, errors in cut and badly done act and cinematography problems. At the bottom this movie is a good example of how you can start with good actors, a good story, a good director of photography, nice setting but end up messing them all. The director Çetin's appearance and his mock-Kurdish speech later mixed with English cuss-words reveal that the movie is not serious at all. Sorry for those who liked it but this is just another Sinan Çetin moviewhich tries to reach fame with a quick gathering of few popular names rather than focusing on the artistic and cinematographic quality.

I liked this movie in general. It is funny and it mocked of bureaucracy in particular. Anyhow some things were not really realistic. I can't imagine that in a such rural society in west Asia a pregnant girl before marriage would have been so tolerated as in this movie! It shows also some interesting aspects like the arid nature of this region and the nature of its people. I spent a nice time in this movie. I encourage that more movies from that relatively unknown region of the world (middle east- west Asia) should be made

Based on a true story: in 1948, customs officer Mehdi has to formally set up the border between Turkey and Syria right through his home town. He is unaware of the pain he is about to create as families, languages, cultures and lovers clash and are ripped apart in a nation which feels as ONE. Furthermore, the new border also leads to the separation of Mehdi from his best friend Rahim who is the most important man in town: the only doctor.