A thirteen year old kid, "the boy", lives and works in a cemetery. The cemetery is his whole life, and growing up with the dead instills in him an obsession and respect for death. His friends depend on him: An unhappy old man, a former political prisoner yearning for death, and makeup artist for deceased, a former artist who dreams of painting a masterpiece. The boy does what h...
Kesten is a picturesque village on the border between Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece. A French sociologist named Franois Denis comes to the village to study the risk of ethnic conflict in this part of the Balkans. He finds out that in a place situated only 100 kilometers from Kosovo there are Muslims and Christians capable of living in peace just as they have for hundreds of year...
这部电影讲述的是1915年奥斯曼帝国对亚美尼亚人的屠杀,而土耳其**官方是不承认历史上曾经屠杀过150万亚美尼亚人的。
该片参加了2007年柏林电影节。柏林《世界》报发表了一篇彼得·赞德的文章,其中提到“《云雀农场》的出现正是时候——在亚美尼亚记者Hrant Dink被谋杀以后,在诺贝尔文学奖帕慕克受到威胁以后。该影片本能成为本次柏林电影节的亮点,但它却根本不在主要评奖项目中。”
很多人对这次电影节提出质疑,怀疑电影节主席Dieter Kosslick是否为了避免引起政治争议而使得Paolo Taviani和Vittorio Taviani导演的电影《云雀农场》(The Lark Farm)失去了获奖机会。