Journey to the Sun (movie)
Güneşe Yolculuk- User score: 6
- Production country: Turkey, Germany, Netherlands
- Producer: Yeşim Ustaoğlu
- Production companies: The Film Company, Medias Res Filmproduktion, Istisnai Filmler ve Reklamlar (IFR)
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 2/16/1999
- Run time: 104 min.
Movie description
Mehmet, a young Turkish man newly migrated from the village Tire, takes a job searching for water leaks below the surface of the streets of Istanbul. Due to a strange set of events, he is mistaken for a Kurd, imprisoned, and brutally beaten. Upon his release a week later, he becomes an outcast marked as a Kurd, losing his apartment, his job, and eventually his girl friend, Arzu. When a Kurdish friend, Berzan is killed in a street protest triggered by a hunger strike, Mehmet takes a trek to return the body to Berzan's home village near the Iraqi border, and learns why so many Kurds are refugees.
