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HERSEYE RAGMEN/DESPITE EVERYTHING<br />
Released from prison for unspecified offenses, Hasan (Talat Bulut) finds himself unable to reenter or even recognize the society into<br />
which he emerges. Even the most basic communication with other people is a challenge, <strong>and</strong> Hasan increasingly draws into himself.<br />
He finds a job as the driver of a hearse for one of Istanbul’s churches—a seemingly perfect job for someone trying to disappear in plain<br />
sight—but then he meets a woman <strong>and</strong> her son, <strong>and</strong> together they rekindle some kind of spark in Hasan’s life. Directed by respected<br />
cinematographer Orhan Oǧuz, Herşeye Rağmen (Despite Everything) played to great acclaim at the Directors Fortnight in Cannes, <strong>and</strong><br />
won top prize at the Mannheim Film Festival. It continues the prison metaphor seen in so many films made in Turkey during the years<br />
following the 1980 military coup.<br />
FESTIVALS AND AWARDS<br />
1988 1st Ankara International Film Festival (Turkey): Best<br />
Film<br />
1988 35th Cannes Film Festival (France): Prix de Jeunesse<br />
Award<br />
1988 37th Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival<br />
(Germany): Gr<strong>and</strong> Prize<br />
ORHAN OGUZ<br />
Born in 1948 in Kırklareli, Turkey to a Turkish immigrant family<br />
from the former Yugoslavia, Orhan Oğuz took an early interest<br />
in painting <strong>and</strong> photography, presenting several exhibitions of<br />
his work, <strong>and</strong> had a start as an assistant in the film business<br />
when he was 16 years old. In 1978 he began working as a<br />
cinematographer, <strong>and</strong> in 1987 he made his debut as a director<br />
with Herşeye Rağmen (Despite Everything), which garnered him<br />
the “Prix de Jeunesse Award” at the Cannes Film festival. Since<br />
then, he has been a prolific director <strong>and</strong> cinematographer, <strong>and</strong><br />
shot numerous films <strong>and</strong> TV series, which have received national<br />
<strong>and</strong> international recognition. In his films, he chooses to depict<br />
the suppressed <strong>and</strong> silent lives of people from all segments of<br />
Turkish society. Oğuz is one of the founders of Eskişehir<br />
Anadolu University.<br />
FILMOGRAPHY<br />
1988 Herşeye Rağmen / Despite Everything<br />
1988 Üçüncü Göz / The Third Eye<br />
1990 İki Başlı Dev<br />
1992 Dönersen Islık Çal / Whistle If You Come Back<br />
1994 Manisa Tarzanı / Tarzan of Manisa<br />
1995 Yer Çekimli Aşklar<br />
1996 Şovalye, Pamuk Prenses ve Hain<br />
1999 Kara Kentin Çocukları / Losers of the Dark City<br />
2004 Büyü<br />
2006 Aura<br />
2010 Hayde Bre<br />
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