Vizontele
(2001)
★ 7.3 IMDb · 200 votes
Year: 2001
Runtime: 110 мин
Country: Turkey
Director: Yılmaz Erdoğan, Ömer Faruk Sorak
Cast: Yılmaz Erdoğan, Demet Akbağ, Altan Erkekli, Джем Йылмаз, Джезми Баскын, Bican Günalan, Şebnem Sönmez, Salih Kalyon, Şener Kökkaya, Erdal Tosun
Plot
The story takes place in the small town of Hakkari in Turkey at the beginning of the '70s. The time has come to bring technology to that small town. The first Television (called Visiontele by the citizens) arrives and the chaos begins.
The film is about the introduction of television to a small village in southeast Anatolia in 1974. Employing a tragicomic language, it tells of the efforts of Emin who is the village idiot and Nazmi who is the mayor of the village. Emin and Nazmi attempt to start the broadcasting of television in their village and face various difficulties in this process.