I Saw the Sun 2009 123movies

Watch: Güneşi Gördüm 2009 123movies, Full Movie Online – In the southeast region of Turkey, the Altun family lives in a small mountainside village plagued by a 25-year war, making their daily life a hellish struggle. As the war continues to intensify, the family is forced to migrate west to the city of Istanbul. While Haydar and Isa Altun decide to stay in Turkey with their young children, Davut Altun and his family migrate north to Norway, enlisting the help of smugglers. They eventually reach their destination and find work in a supermarket, but life as refugees proves relentless. Back in Istanbul, Haydar watches over the family as his wife undergoes an operation due to pregnancy complications. Their son makes friends with a group of transvestites, helping him to understand why he has felt different all of his life. While liberating, his newfound identity is seen as a disgrace to the rest of his family, leading him to flee from the abuse it produces..
Plot: In the southeast region of Turkey, the Altun family lives in a small mountainside village plagued by a 25-year war, making their daily life a hellish struggle. As the war continues to intensify, the family is forced to migrate west to the city of Istanbul. While Haydar and Isa Altun decide to stay in Turkey with their young children, Davut Altun and his family migrate north to Norway, enlisting the help of smugglers. They eventually reach their destination and find work in a supermarket, but life as refugees proves relentless. Back in Istanbul, Haydar watches over the family as his wife undergoes an operation due to pregnancy complications. Their son makes friends with a group of transvestites, helping him to understand why he has felt different all of his life. While liberating, his newfound identity is seen as a disgrace to the rest of his family, leading him to flee from the abuse it produces.
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Politics, humanity, war and LGBT rights all in a gritty, realistic movie …
The link between war, development and poverty is unequivocally demonstrated in this Turkish movie about the long standing Kurdish insurgency in the country’s eastern provinces. Most people just wish to get on with their lives and have no time for nationalisms or ‘isms’ of other sorts. Indeed, ask the transvestite character in the film, and it’s clear most of us have many of our own problems without taking on the burdens of others onto our own shoulders.

Nonetheless, humans cannot be divorced from the realities around them. Hence, the individual who joins a political movement infused with the idealism of youth. Pitted against him is his brother who believes in the power and strength of the state to deliver services, e.g. education and healthcare. As these two fight, innocent farmers and shepherds who happen to live in villages in the battleground suffer.

To suffer means economic destruction and even death.

This is the story of one such family caught up in Turkey’s Kurdish insurgency. Simultaneously, the movie reveals the conservative and male dominated nature of rural Turkish society.

It’s a sad movie – prepared to shed tears. But ‘I Saw the Sun’ is a social statement which provides powerful insights for any student of Turkish society. The movie provides few answers but forces us to ask the right questions.

A must watch for anyone interested in Turkish society.

In Turkish with English subtitles.

Anti-Kurdish propaganda
The film’s title is suggestive, as the sun (alongside the fire) is an ancient Kurdish symbol of the Yazidi religion, also illustrated on the Kurdish national flag and thus symbolising freedom and enlightenment for the Kurds today. Thus “seeing the sun” means, in other words, liberating Kurdistan from the Turkish regime, among the others. But interestingly, the one character who literally “sees the sun”, the homosexual boy, is being killed. This, I believe, is a message to the Kurds (and the core idea of the film), that only in death will they get their freedom, reminding us of the Turkish racism of “a good Kurd is a dead Kurd”. This Turkish association of (Kurdish) freedom and death was also used in the film “Eskiya” (1996). It is worth noting that the film was released in a time when the Turkish aggression towards Iraqi Kurdistan was at its peak. Some months earlier had the Turkish army walked in that part of Kurdistan (under the pretext of fighting the PKK), calling it “Operation the Sun”.

Since the time of the creation of the Turkish republic in 1920s and the selling of Ataturk as a “moderniser”, Kurdish culture has been portrayed as primitive and no-good, hence “happy is that is a Turk”. In other words, “all will be done to make you unhappy if you insist on your Kurdishness” and this film plays that part well. The Kurdish characters and families in the film are not unhappy because of the Turkish state in Kurdistan but because of their own culture, illustrated among others by the fathers wish to have a son (as opposed to a daughter), and of their own people, the PKK. Despite all the reports of human rights organisations on the contrary, the Turkish army is portrayed as loving and caring with no option but to “ask them” to leave.

This film makes no contribution whatsoever to the understanding and thus resolution of the complex issue of the Kurdish Question. On the contrary, by dealing with it through the traditional Turkish racism and anti-Kurdism, the film helps to prolong the Turkish colonialism in Kurdistan, doing no-one any good.

Other Information:

Original Language tr
Runtime 2 hr (120 min) (Turkey)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated N/A
Genre Drama
Director Mahsun Kirmizigül
Writer Mahsun Kirmizigül
Actors Mahsun Kirmizigül, Demet Evgar, Murat Ünalmis
Country Turkey
Awards 6 wins & 6 nominations
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Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
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Laboratory Sinefekt, Istanbul, Turkey
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