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Film Info

Turkey 2009 | 90 min. Director: Mahmut Fazıl Coşkun
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Project / Host

European Film Awards

Wrong Rosary

Synopsis

The young muezzin Musa visits Istanbul for the first time in his life when he is assigned to a mosque in Galata, Istanbul.
Musa is lodged in to an apartment provided for him. His next door neighbors are Sister Anna and Clara who is taking care of her.
An excitement and at the same time, a warm kind of sensation is emerged through the encounter of Clara, whose life is stuck between home and church and Musa, who comes to Istanbul to start a new life. At the beginning he was even hesitant to confess himself, but as time passes, the young muezzin’s love for Clara pervades all his life. Another story emerges when Musa and Yakup, who is a bibliopole, come across at the church which Clara attends regularly.
Little surprises come out of the stories of three intersecting lives - Clara, Musa the muezzin and Mr. Yakup the bibliopole.

Director's comment

Istanbul is a rare city which shelters interesting stories within its colourful socio-cultural and religious environment. The cities where great ancient cultures had dwelt provide opportunities for vivid relations to arouse between its inhabitants. We believe that these cities have the power to add different meanings to the experience of everyday. Our aim in WRONG ROSARY is to capture and reveal these deep and vivid sensations. This film follows a love story that could only take place in Istanbul or somewhere alike. WRONG ROSARY is the story of three people who live in Istanbul, Galata. A Muezzin who has just arrived to Istanbul from the country, a young orphan girl who lives with the care of the church and who wants to be a nun and an old bouquiniste who is a native of Istanbul...
Our starting point is to achieve a romantic but still realistic narration which makes use of this vivid atmosphere as a background to the story of the young muezzin’s love for the girl who dreams to be a nun.
We strived to convey the humane instances that occur at the intersections of different cultures and religions through a minimalistic film language that carries a tone of humour.
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