Breath  2009 / NEFES: VATAN SAĞOLSUN / YÖNETMEN LEVENT SEMERCİ / tiglon / CRVD FILM / DVD Video 

UPC 8697333035155

Total Playtime 128 Minutes

Region 2 PAL DVD

Made in Turkey  

Audio:  Turkish  

Subtitles:  English, German, French

!!! Condition of DVD is USED - VERY GOOD !!!

Breath (Turkish: Nefes: Vatan Sağolsun, literally Breath: Long Live the Homeland) is a 2009 Turkish drama film directed by Levent Semerci. The film, which tells the story of 40 soldiers in charge of protecting a relay station near the Iraqi border in southeastern Turkey, was adapted from the short stories Tales from the Southeast and Ground Minus Zero by Hakan Evrensel and is, according to Hürriyet Daily News reviewer Emine Yıldırım, the first Turkish film that tackles, through an authentic perspective and convincing realness, the contemporary situation of the Turkish army and its long battle with the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) .

The film went on general release across Turkey on October 16, 2009 and won two awards at the 3rd Yeşilçam Awards as well as being one of the highest-grossing films of 2009, prompting its re-release on July 23, 2010.

Geride Kalanlar İçin
"Nefes: Vatan Sağolsun", Güneydoğu'da Irak sınırına yakın bir ilçedeki komando tugayında bulunan ve Karabal Tepesi'ndeki röle istasyonunu korumakla görevlendirilen bir yüzbaşı komutasındaki 40 askerin
hikayesidir.
Buz gibi sulardan geçtiler, tepelere tırmanıp, yamaçlardan indiler
Güneşte kavruldular, iki gün iki gece...
...
Ellerinde tüfekleri... Sırtlarında evleri... Yüreklerinde sevdikleriyle... Sınır nedir, neresidir bilmezdi çoğu... Emir almadıkları, emir de vermedikleri bir hayattan, her şeyi emirle
yaptıkları bir hayata geçtiklerinde sınırları da gördüler... Mevzilerde beklediler... Korudukları telsizden analarıyla, babalarıyla, sevgilileriyle görüşebilmek için telefon
sırası beklediler...
Kendilerini neyin beklediğini bilmeden günlerce, aylarca beklediler Karabal Tepe'de...

Özel Seçenekler:
Fragmanlar
DİLLER: Türkçe 6.1 DTS-ES, Türkçe 5.1 Dolby Digital, Türkçe 2.0 Dolby Digital
ALTYAZILAR: English, German, French

This film is about a small unit of 40 Turkish commandos in a remote two-way radio repeater station in southeastern Turkey at the first years of the 1990s, in a state of near-certain death, during the most violent times, in the conflict between the Turkish Army and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

The film starts with a military helicopter coming to aid at Karabal Military Checkpoint after a firefight. The film then shifts to flashback to winter when Captain Mete (Mete Horozoğlu) along with his 40 men come to Karabal Military Checkpoint to curb the eponymous Doctor, a leader of Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). En route two of his soldiers are killed by a sniper equipped with a Dragunov rifle. On reaching the checkpoint he parades the soldiers and intimidates them for not following proper rules.

The soldiers start maintaining the checkpoint, creating an observational post. In the meantime they also talk to each other about their families and how tough it is to be a soldier in such a place. One day when Commander Mete is talking with his wife Zeynep (Birce Akalay) on radio call, Doctor intercepts the radio call and threatens him that they will all die. Mete orders his second in command Bariş (Barış Bağcı) to start stricter patrols in the area around the checkpoint. In one such patrol they ambush a group of insurgents, killing some and wounding a woman (Aslı Turkel) in the process. Commander Mete orders Bariş to take her to the checkpoint, where she is treated by the paramedic but the commander tries to strangle her while turning the television on to enrage the doctor. Later on Mete calls a helicopter and sends her to the hospital at the base.

Doctor then intercepts the radio once again and declares he will attack soon. Months pass by and one night a soldier calls her bride to be to wish her for her birthday. While making the call, the insurgents attack with small artilleries and heavy guns. In the ensuing fight many are killed from both sides. Bariş along with three soldiers feigns a retreat while the Commander Mete is gravely wounded. The Doctor, seeing all the soldiers dead enters and kills the commander but is killed by soldier Turgay who was wounded but not dead. Bariş showers bullets on the rest of the insurgents from a higher point and kills them, thus securing the checkpost. The helicopter from the start comes and takes the dead soldiers and the wounded Turgay. Commander Mete's death is declared to Zeynep in Istanbul.

The film ends with another military detachment being sent to the checkpost.

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