Vizontele

Feb 2 2001 N/A 1h 50m
Comedy, Drama

The story takes place in a small town (called Hakkari) in Turkey at the beginning of the 70's. The time has come to bring technology into that small town. The first Television (or called Visiontele by the citizens) arrives and the chaos begins.

Plot

The film is about the introduction of television to a small village in southeast Anatolia in 1974. Employing a tragicomic language, it tells of the efforts of Emin who is the village idiot and Nazmi who is the mayor of the village. Emin and Nazmi attempt to start the broadcasting of television in their village and face various difficulties in this process.

Written by

Yilmaz Erdogan

Directed by

Yilmaz Erdogan, Ömer Faruk Sorak

Cast

Yilmaz Erdogan, Demet Akbag, Altan Erkekli

Crew

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Production Countries

Turkey

Languages

Türkçe

Awards

7 wins & 5 nominations

Scores
# of Votes
40,602
Average Rating
8 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA