2006 · comedy · drama · coup
Beynelmilel
Directed by Sırrı Süreyya Önder, Muharrem Gülmez1h 46m2006
It is 80's Turkey, local musicians of Adiyaman are hired by the military and trained to welcome one of the forceful generals of coup regime.
Our read: Beynelmilel (2006) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama · coup entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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