Turkey / UK,
2017, 104 min
Directed by:
İlker SavaşkurtScreenplay:
Mehmet KalaCinematography:
Serdar ÜnlütürkComposer:
Uğur AteşCast:
Barış Atay Mengüllüoğlu, Gökhan Yıkılkan, İbrahim Aköz, Özgür Emre Yıldırım, Halit Karaata, Serdar Bordanacı, Turgay Atalay, Feriha Eyüboğlu, Münibe Millet (more)Plots(1)
Groom's Block is slang in Turkey for prison sections holding those accused of serious sex crimes. The film's story and characters are drawn from everyday life. In the Groom's Block, the guards and prison governor manipulate tensions, as prisoners push each other to the edge of existence. We experience the tension and paradox of a violent prison and justice systems reflecting the shifting moral norms and structure of Turkish society. The jailed and jailers enforce violent justice daily, expressing in their lives a society confronted with its need to hide from itself, in desperate denial of its cruel contradictions. (Indy Film Fest)
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