Haytarma
- heavy
- intense
Heavy, steady, measured crimean-tatar / deportation, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →The film tells about the tragic date in the history of the Crimean Tatar people — May 18, 1944 — Stalin’s deportation of the Crimean Tatars. The plot of the film — a pilot, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Amethan Sultan. In May, 1944, a year after liberation of Sevastopol Amethan goes on vacation to his native town Alupka. On May 18 his eyes witness begining of deportation of the Crimean Tatars.
Our read · Haytarma (2013) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded crimean-tatar · deportation · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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