Kizilirmak Karakoyun (1967) User Reviews

Crossroads of love in the heart of a remote journey to the Anatolia of the past

[figueroafernando · 10/10 · 21 May 2023]

Fateful love story buried in this piece of sublime ethnological and historical wealth! In this elegiac journey to the past, a calm, painful, winding like some rivers beats, a song - of what I call absolute mourning - for not having its own life; raw history, when the controversies during pastoral nomadism in Asia Minor were settled throwing a beautiful maiden with stones for the portion of land for cultivation, for the portion of meat in the Oba (horde) for the Bey; the one who is equivalent to cacique, Apdi Agha, authorizes them to their pastures, but woe to those who fall behind in payment of rights and interests like the fateful Sarycaly, banished from the Oba, to his fate; the beautiful Hatice sees her reflection in the river, what will be the words, the tone of her inscrutable cry after being insulted by Zehra, her "Abla" (older sister). And just as it has happened since millennia immemorial, Apdi Agha sends them "gifts" that are more expensive than if he sold them, sending the Oba yeast powder and Ferhat cannot even complain, as he is immediately repressed by his own neighbors for daring to distrust Apdi Agha, who behaves no differently from his father and grandfather, as they have transmitted their hegemony. Ahmet and Fettah Fendi come to the Oba to remind Huseyin Agha that his debt amounts to 5049 gold pieces. The Oba produces the equivalent of 1,200 pieces of gold (oil, sheep, wool, etc.), and Huseyin instead requests 2,000 a year. Hatice tried in vain to protect Ali Haydar, begging him to take her away. Fettah Fendi wants to take her away. To Hatice for marriage with her son Ahmet in exchange for the debt, but the stepmother (Hatice's older sister) Zehra, surprises the pastor Ali with Hatice and denounces them to be taken to the court or clan court, where a condition, cross the river without drinking a drop of water, and resist for 3 full days receiving salt in exchange. Did he die trying? He accomplished the feat. The nefarious Ahmet in the name of Apdi Agha took the beautiful Hatice, and the poor, humble Ali, what did he do? Launching into a suicidal crusade to rescue her. The last thing he was heard to say was: "Agha, give the order" and the father agreed, Huseyin, the dust from the horses was the open denouement of this story.