Event details:

Sunday, Feb 18, 2:30pm

Hacivat Karagöz neden öldürüldü? (2006)

With English subtitles

Free Admission!!!

Nord 400 @ Case

 

About the movie:

Genre: Comedy/Drama

Plot Summary: This is a story of two legendary men, Karagoz and Hacivat, who lived and died by their sense of humor. Bursa, 1330. A an ancient, crowded Roman city at the border of Byzantium. Changed hands 4 years ago and the small Ottoman tribe is just being transformed as a local state, on the remains of the old Eastern Roman Empire. The story takes place in an unrecorded period time, the last 2 months in the lives of two legendary Turkish stand-up comedians, Karagoz & Hacivat? They lived and died during the first clashes of the decaying Eastern Roman Empire and the first Ottomans of the 14th century Anatolia. Their stories and characters are adapted for traditional shadow theatre of the later Ottoman Empire, in modern Turkey and all over the Middle-East, Greece, and western Asia. Their legend and the truth about their tragic deaths are twisted and distorted, although their stingy humor still lingers on. After the the leader of the growing tribe of Ottomans, Orhan Gazi, notices the talents of two construction workers, famous among their friends with their clever and unending jokes, he rewarded them. But they were executed when he learns that they were keeping their co-workers laughing at their jokes during work hours, and causing a delay in the construction of the mosque to be named after Orhan Bey. (From www.imdb.com)

Movie Trailer:

Click Here(8.33 mb)

For more information about the movie and reviews, you can use the following links:

IMDB (in English)

Beyaz Perde (in Turkish)

film.gen.tr(in Turkish)

 

Nord 400 @ CASE Campus

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Parking:

If you will drive to the campus and need parking, some parking directions might be useful. The parking lot behind the Olin Building is open at weekends, so you can park there and have a short walk to the movie location. You can enter this parking lot from the Martin Luther King Blv.

Click here for the location of the parking lots behind Olin Building in Case campus.