The Market: A Tale of Trade
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The Market: A Tale of Trade is a 2008 international co-production
drama film
, written and directed by Ben Hopkins, starring Tayanç Ayaydın as a small-time blackmarket trader in a provincial town in Eastern Turkey tasked with procuring some valuable medicine. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on , has won awards at film festivals in Locarno, Ghent and Antalya, where it was the first film directed by foreigner to win an award in the national competition..
THE MARKET is a predominantly realistic, and often comic, film about the workings of capitalism in the rather poor communities of Eastern Turkey.
in 2008. It has been released in cinemas in Germany, Belgium, Holland and Turkey. The UK release was on April 16, 2010, and it has since been broadcast on the digital television channel BBC4.
International co-production
An international co-production is a production where two or more different production companies are working together, for example in a film production...
drama film
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
, written and directed by Ben Hopkins, starring Tayanç Ayaydın as a small-time blackmarket trader in a provincial town in Eastern Turkey tasked with procuring some valuable medicine. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on , has won awards at film festivals in Locarno, Ghent and Antalya, where it was the first film directed by foreigner to win an award in the national competition..
Film Synopsis
From the film’s official website: 1994. Mihram is a comic and inventive small-time blackmarket trader in a provincial town in Eastern Turkey. He has many ideas for good business deals, but never enough capital to realise them. One day the hospital supply truck is robbed, and the local GP hires Mihram to find some medicines on the black market. Finally, Mihram has the necessary capital to make a good deal, but he will have to gamble with the community’s money. If he loses, he will be an outcast. If he wins, he will have a good start-up business. But he hasn’t reckoned with two things – the local mafia, and the inscrutable rules of the marketplace.THE MARKET is a predominantly realistic, and often comic, film about the workings of capitalism in the rather poor communities of Eastern Turkey.
Release
The film premiered at the Locarno International Film FestivalLocarno International Film Festival
The Film Festival Locarno is an international film festival held annually in the city of Locarno, Switzerland since 1946. After Cannes and Venice and together with Karlovy Vary, Locarno is the Film Festival with the longest history...
in 2008. It has been released in cinemas in Germany, Belgium, Holland and Turkey. The UK release was on April 16, 2010, and it has since been broadcast on the digital television channel BBC4.
Awards
- Locarno International Film FestivalLocarno International Film FestivalThe Film Festival Locarno is an international film festival held annually in the city of Locarno, Switzerland since 1946. After Cannes and Venice and together with Karlovy Vary, Locarno is the Film Festival with the longest history...
Best Actor Award: Tayanç Ayaydın (won) - Ghent International Film Festival Best Film (won)
- Antalya Golden Orange Film FestivalAntalya Golden Orange Film FestivalThe Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival is a film festival, held annually since 1963 in Antalya, is the most important national film festival in Turkey...
- Best Film (won)
- Best Actor: Tayanç Ayaydın (won)
- Best Script (won)
- Best Costume (won)