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Yazgi is the first of a planned trilogy referred as "Tales About Darkness." Inspired from Albert Camus’ The Stranger, Yazgi is the story of Musa, a customs clerk who lives quietly with his mother. Musa believes in the emptiness and absurdity of life. He doesn't struggle to change his life; he lets himself flow along with events because he thinks that it all leads to the same end. The death of his mother doesn't affect him. Although he loves her, her death makes him joyful. In order to avoid making any decisions he marries a girl whom he doesn't like, because she wants it. Whereas in his world, people deal with their fate by their own will and power. Musa is arrested for the death of a mother and her two kids. However, he doesn't react to this event either...

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Length: 119 minutes

Director: Zeki Demirkubuz

Cast: Emrah Elciboga, Engin Gunaydin, Demir Karahan, Zeynep Tokus

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Critics Corner

Dark, Existential Films Top Turkish Festival. Review by Damon Smith, Boston Globe, 2003.

Review by The Albert Camus Society of U.K., 2005

Un Certain Regard. Review by Derek Elley, Variety, 2002.

Young Turk Tempts Fate with Sombre Tale. Review by Dan Fainaru, Screen International, 2002.

Review by Dan Gleister, The Guardian, 2002.

Review by Ron Holloway, Kinema, 2002.

Zeki Demirkubuz Talks to Jamie Bell about His “Tales of Darkness”. Review by Jamie Bell, Sight and Sound, 2006.

Review by Robert A. Haller, Five Films by Zeki Demirkubuz, 2003.

Turkey Distraught. Review by Peter Keough, The Providence Phoenix, 2004.

56th Edinburgh International Film Festival. 2003.

Mental Minefields: The Dark Tales of Zeki Demirkubuz. Review by Ovul Durmusoglu, 2007

Bosphorus Straits. Review by Mark Holcomb, Village Voice, 2002

Cannes doubles up on Turkish helmer. Review by Andrea R. Vaucher, Variety, 2002

Yazgi, EksiSinema, 2011 [in Turkish]

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Imdb 7.5/10 738 votes