A Turkish engineer returns home to build utopia; the village builds something darker instead.
Hasan, an engineer who returned to the village from America after years with his child, young and beautiful wife, wants to establish a dairy factory to save the peasant who exploited Salih Aga from poverty. The villagers get money for this job.
Direction
Baytan's genre-hopping chaos turns socialist fable into something unclassifiable.
Production
The dairy factory set: concrete brutalism invading pastoral Anatolia.
Director
Natuk Baytan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Turkey's 1980 coup aftermath, the film's paranoia about collective projects mirrors real political violence against leftist organizers.
Baytan shot the factory construction scenes at an actual failed cooperative; extras were former workers who'd lived Hasan's nightmare.
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