Maître Galip
1964•11m•7.3•Released
Documentary
Maître Galip is the most poetic and powerful of Pialat's Turkish Chronicles, using the poems of Nazim Hikmet to accompany a series of evocative images of ordinary working class people in Istanbul. This was the film that Pialat himself claimed was the most complete realization of what he was aiming for with his Turkish documentaries. It's not difficult to see why this was his favorite: here he abandons the historical commentary and documentary observation of the other shorts in favor of an emotional emphasis on the lives of the poor and the unemployed.
Director
Maurice Pialat
Writer
Nazım Hikmet Ran
Languages
French
Studio
Como Film
Cast
André Reybaz
Narrator
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