One and the Many Screenings:
Karanlıkta Uyananlar
[Those Awakening
in the Dark]
Salt Galata
October 5, 2016 19.00
Still from the film Karanlıkta Uyananlar [Those Awakening in the Dark] (1964)
Courtesy the director
Courtesy the director
SALT Galata, Auditorium
Karanlıkta Uyananlar [Those Awakening in the Dark] (1964)
Director: Ertem Göreç
114 minutes
Turkish; English subtitles
Karanlıkta Uyananlar [Those Awakening in the Dark] (1964), screenplay by Vedat Türkali, is the first Turkish film to focus on strikes and workers’ rights issues in the country. Depicting the constant struggles of workers at a paint factory, the film also narrates the challenges faced by the factory’s young new owner by highlighting subjects of domestic industry and foreign capital.
Organized in parallel to the exhibition One and the Many at SALT Galata, the program is free. Reservations are not accepted.
Karanlıkta Uyananlar [Those Awakening in the Dark] (1964)
Director: Ertem Göreç
114 minutes
Turkish; English subtitles
Karanlıkta Uyananlar [Those Awakening in the Dark] (1964), screenplay by Vedat Türkali, is the first Turkish film to focus on strikes and workers’ rights issues in the country. Depicting the constant struggles of workers at a paint factory, the film also narrates the challenges faced by the factory’s young new owner by highlighting subjects of domestic industry and foreign capital.
Organized in parallel to the exhibition One and the Many at SALT Galata, the program is free. Reservations are not accepted.
