Journey on the Clock-Hand
(Akrebin yolculugu)
by Ömer Kavur
Turkey
Script: Macit Koper, Ömer Kavur
Cinematographer: Erdal Kahraman
Editor: Mevlüt Koçak
Music: Atilla Özdemiroglu
Cast: Mehmet Aslantug, Sahika Tekand, Tuncel Kurtiz, Nüvit Özdogru, Tomris Oguzalp, Aytac Arman
Producer Ömer Kavur
Production: Alfa Film
Year: 1997
35 mm, Colour, 118 min,
OV Turkish with French Subtitles
Unreleased
Un Certain Regard - Cannes 1997
A watch repairer who comes to repair the clock tower of a town fall under the influence of a married woman. He witnesses a murder by the lake and strange incidents start to develop around him. He tries to show resistance to the threats of the husband of the woman to whom he becomes attracted passionately. However, in the mystery of this maze of complicated events where the past and the future interweave, the watch repairer still wants to have the truth in spite of all the dan ger. Time is no more. In this highly symbolic tale Ömer Kavur tackles the relationship between time and space. Deriving from a notion of space he formed to a notion of time, and merging these two notions, geographical and physical journeys in Kavur’s tale progress following routes parallel to the transformation of the protagonists’ inner worlds...
