Hasan the Rose is the first feature film for which Tuncel Kurtiz went behind the camera following his years as an actor of stage and screen. The film, narrating in a tragicomic style with ‘natural exaggeration’, the defrauding and exploitation of Turkish citizens working in Europe by a double-dealing director who’s the leader of a band, with the promise to giving them parts in the film he’s about the shoot, is a concrete reflection of the anger Kurtiz feels for some of the directors he has previously worked with. Let’s state that apart from presenting a interesting example of ‘cinema looks at cinema’ and dealing with the problems of our migrant workers with a perspective of class, the performances of the actors in Hasan the Rose are quite distinguished and that the film has brought Kurtiz a Best Director award in Sweden. Tunca Arslan |
