Set in a Turkish Prison. Dramatisation of a prison revolt which took place in an Ankara prison in 1976.

ANKARA / TURKEY
A central prison
Women and men, "common law" and political prisoners...and children.
The children of the fourth dormitory. The misery of the children of the fourth dormitory.
These are its broken windows, its thieves, its murderers, its abandoned children...
Some of them still hâve a mother, a father, but most of them hâve grown up hère, elsewhere, at the orphanage...
The fourth dormitory is unlike any other.
The children carry out the hardest jobs in the prison, in exhange for which they have neither heating, nor bedcovers, nor décent clothes, nor water to wash themselves nor tea to warm themselves.
The only way, the only hope to be sent to another prison : revolt.
And the children will win despite the beating and the insults. They will go to another prison.
"Go, may your new prison bring you good luck !"
"May God help you !"

a film by Yilmaz GÜNEY

Turkey / France, 1983, feature, Drama

Featuring Tuncel Kurtiz, Ayse Emel, Mesci Saban

"Everything that is told in this film recalîs real events. In blood, fire and tears, in the darkness ofthe walls, they lookedfor waterand light.
I dedicate this film to those young friends searching for water and for light".
Yilmaz GUNEY

Director: Yilmaz Güney

Countries: France, Turkey
Year: 1983

Genre: Drama
Type: Film
Category: Fiction

Alternative titles:
DUVAR
GUNEY'S THE WALL
The WALL

Cast & Credits

Cast
Uncle Ali > Tuncel Kurtiz
Woman Political Prisoner > Ayse Emel Mesci
Boy at Dormitory 4 > Saban
Boy at Dormitory 4 > Sisko
Boy at Dormitory 4 > Ziya
Boy at Dormitory 4 > Garip
Boy at Dormitory 4 > Zapata
Boy at Dormitory 4 > Mankafa
Arab > Malik Berrichi
Uzun Radji, "Lofty" > Nicolas Hossein
Tom > Habes Bounabi
Hatice > Isabelle Tissandier
Samil > Ali Berktay
Ayse > Sema Kuray
Cafer > Ahmet Ziyrek
Prison Governor > Selahattin Kuzuoglu
Director-General of Prisons > Jean-Pierre Colin
Sevket > Jacques Dimanche
Old Ali > Ali Dede Altuntas
Warder > Necdet Nakiboglu
Little Girl > Zeynep Kuray
Lawyer > Bernard Certeaux
Bonzo > Jérémie Nassif
Pregnant Woman > Christina Castillo
Arab's Mother > Aïcha Arouali
Aysel > Betty Nocella
Woman Prisoner > Jölle Guigui
Woman Prisoner > Sylvie Flepp
The Nun > Schahla Aalam

Credits
Direction: Yilmaz Güney
Kerope Bagla
Fatos Güney
Sefa Emet
Yilmaz Güney

Production:
MK2 Productions
Güney Film
TF1 Films Production

In association with
Ministère Français de la Culture

Marin Karmitz
Dominique Toussaint
Monique Eydan
Catherine Lapoujade

Writing:
Yilmaz Güney

Photography:
Izzet Akay
Laurent Chevallier
Francois Kotlarski, assistant caméra
Serkis Celik

Editing:
Sabine Mamou
Patricia Mazuy
Annie Allard

Make-up:
Françoise Chapuis

Titles:
Les Films Michel François

Film processing:
Franay LTC

Colour
Fujicolor

Music:
Ozan Garip Sahin
Setrak Bakirel
Ali Dede Altuntas
Robert Kempler

Sound:
Serge Guillemin
Gérard Tilly
Patrick Joulin
Bob Wade

Assistant sound editor
Fabienne de La Villegle
Henri Humbert

Consultant / Translations:
Tahsin Celal
Erdogan Sezgin

source:
www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b74a1f8cc