Somersault in a Coffin (1996)

The movie have been shooted for 4 hours with borrowed movie camera in 24 days. The crew sticked together. So, this is a low budget movie. I found technical specifications (such as shots, sounds, synchronization) little bad by year. If you like oriental songs, you will lose yourself with "Yansimalar" and "Baba Zula"s music in this movie. The subject is the life story of someone on the street. We can really see how it is. So realistic. But some frames are greenly, nonsensical, absurd. The movie received awards at several international film festivals including the Golden Orange for best film. This is a cult film. And it deserves.

Fmovies: What does a director do if he hasn't enough fund? Dervis Zaim did his best. Ahmet Ugurlu,Tuncel Kurtiz acted perfectly. Realistic,different and smart are the adjectives to describe this film.

A work of art. Shows money is not every thing was the thing on my mind I was to say.. Ironic... a little more thinking on the subject, money became something. or is it not? no matter what.. this work is a great combination of directing and acting.. worth to think about it..

Somersault in a Coffin fmovies. An exquisite movie about survival. Perhaps human's biggest mistake is to throw itself into things outside of survival. There was an enormous scene in the film: the Turkish national team beat its rival and the people are throwing themselves in the street, but Mahzun is in the process of spooning the soup. In solving the hunger, in the life of survival. Identity, power, belonging, success, etc. What's so important about surviving?

Mahsun (Ahmet UÄŸurlu) steals cars and sleeps inside only to save himself from the cold, and returns them when the sun shines .. he has no money, no profession, no future and no any intelligence, just a couple of friends and a peacock to talk to..he is no one in terms of what we expect from a man in present life, but he has everything in terms of what present life lacks of.. some scenes are very brave, drinking and pouring wine onto graveyard is neither something we tend to do nor have we seen before :) Mahsun's relation with the peacock worths watching, i think its one of the most interesting 3-5 scenes in Turkish Cinema, very close to be the first. I watched this film again and again, Ahmet UÄŸurlu performs his best work ever, this film shows us clearly that even he seems to be the right one for comedy films, he should have better not made any, he fits for such roles perfectly, one of the most dramatic and realistic films ever, a masterpiece from DerviÅŸ Zaim ...

Crime, punishment, corruption, misery, hunger, love, desperation, friendship, innocence, purity and more are what you get in this movie with three main characters and one of the best screenplays ever written. Great choice of cast. Their powerful acting not only supports the screenplay, also strengthens the acting of the amateur players. In my opinion this one may be the best movie made with the least possibilities. Stop wasting your time on Hollywood movies and take a look at what Turkish cinema can do. Highly recommended for those who think that they had enough of that same old screenplays and some sicko acting.