Post by Dèsîŗĕ Yèarning on Feb 14, 2011 22:54:25 GMT -5
SARAJEVO - Anatolia News Agency
Turkish director and producer Osman Sınav is working on a real-life story that occurred during the Bosnian war. Sınav says the film follows a young musician that loses an arm that later becomes a fearless sniper. The director, who has enjoyed great success with past TV series, says Bosnia and Herzegovina is one of his favorite countries in the world
Osman Sınav visited Sarajevo to have talks with the screenwriter of the film, Almir Basovic.
Popular Turkish television director Osman Sınav is leading a film project set during the Bosnian War of the 1990s that features true events from the fighting.
“We are working on a real story. A young person who only wants to play guitar and make music and has no idea about the war until the day it begins loses his arm and cannot make music. Later on, he becomes a sniper and a fearless warrior using his two remaining fingers. The film tells the drama of this period,” Sınav recently told Anatolia news agency.
Sarajevo University Conservatory Department member Almir Basovic is the screenwriter of the drama, which features real events from the period.
Sınav, the director of popular Turkish TV series including “Deli Yürek” (Crazy Heart) and “Kurtlar Vadisi” (Valley of the Wolves), visited Sarajevo last week to confer with Basovic. The director said he came to Bosnia and Herzegovina for a second meeting with Basovic after their first meeting in Istanbul.
Sınav said he had previously come to Bosnia immediately after the war for footage for a TV series he was working on.
“When I came here for the first time, I saw that one can fall in love with a country just like a man falls in love with a woman. Bosnia gives me the feeling of love and I am in love with the country. It is like a lover who is far away from me,” Sınav said.
He also said the Ottoman-period Gazi Hüsrevbey social complex in Sarajevo was a very significant place for a common story. “A social complex was constructed 500 years ago and it includes a Turkish bath, a covered bazaar, a mosque and an almshouse, which still serves meals every day for free regardless of the religion, language or nation of the people. This complex has survived for 500 years thanks to this perspective. This is why we should not produce Brazilian TV series but more different and serious stories.”
The director said Turkish cinema should broaden its horizons and make stories on a wide range from Sarajevo to Tabriz and from Baku to Almaty.
Sınav also said Turkish TV series were very popular across a wide region. “Turkish TV series draw great interest in many countries. Turkish artists are loved so much. We have to make the most of it and make good productions for further cultural collaborations. This is why we are here.”
First Turkish TV series broadcast abroad
Sınav said the first Turkish TV series broadcast abroad was his “Deli Yürek,” which was sold to Kazakhstan for a low price. It received huge interest in the country and was later shown in Bosnia, drawing the same interest, he added.
“At the moment, Turkish TV series are on the screen in a wide region on three continents. This is a very serious gain and it will bring economic income. You not only sell TV series, you also establish a cultural connection. Brands and tourism are sold thanks to it,” he said. “Politicians or academics couldn’t do this over 20 years but you can do it in one or two years with a TV series. Today, most children under 5 years old in Azerbaijan are speaking Istanbul Turkish.”
Sınav said the interest in Turkish TV series should be evaluated in the best way and added that the most important issue was to find stories in common.
‘Muhteşem Yüzyıl’ disappoints
Filmmakers should also be extra careful during the present period in which the Turkish film sector is opening to the world, he said, adding that there was big interest in the Ottomans throughout the Balkans and that Ottoman heritage still survived in many places.
“The new TV series ‘Muhteşem Yüzyıl’ [Magnificent Century] will draw great interest in the country because of Süleyman the Magificent,” he said. “But I am sure people will say the [Süleyman] in the TV series is different from the man they know. Because he is shown like a poor man running after a woman. It will disappoint them. Producers should have this perspective but they don’t have it. It is too wrong that the Ottoman Sultan [Süleyman], who was called ‘magnificent’ even by his enemies, is shown to be a very simple man,” he said.
Turkish director and producer Osman Sınav is working on a real-life story that occurred during the Bosnian war. Sınav says the film follows a young musician that loses an arm that later becomes a fearless sniper. The director, who has enjoyed great success with past TV series, says Bosnia and Herzegovina is one of his favorite countries in the world
Osman Sınav visited Sarajevo to have talks with the screenwriter of the film, Almir Basovic.
Popular Turkish television director Osman Sınav is leading a film project set during the Bosnian War of the 1990s that features true events from the fighting.
“We are working on a real story. A young person who only wants to play guitar and make music and has no idea about the war until the day it begins loses his arm and cannot make music. Later on, he becomes a sniper and a fearless warrior using his two remaining fingers. The film tells the drama of this period,” Sınav recently told Anatolia news agency.
Sarajevo University Conservatory Department member Almir Basovic is the screenwriter of the drama, which features real events from the period.
Sınav, the director of popular Turkish TV series including “Deli Yürek” (Crazy Heart) and “Kurtlar Vadisi” (Valley of the Wolves), visited Sarajevo last week to confer with Basovic. The director said he came to Bosnia and Herzegovina for a second meeting with Basovic after their first meeting in Istanbul.
Sınav said he had previously come to Bosnia immediately after the war for footage for a TV series he was working on.
“When I came here for the first time, I saw that one can fall in love with a country just like a man falls in love with a woman. Bosnia gives me the feeling of love and I am in love with the country. It is like a lover who is far away from me,” Sınav said.
He also said the Ottoman-period Gazi Hüsrevbey social complex in Sarajevo was a very significant place for a common story. “A social complex was constructed 500 years ago and it includes a Turkish bath, a covered bazaar, a mosque and an almshouse, which still serves meals every day for free regardless of the religion, language or nation of the people. This complex has survived for 500 years thanks to this perspective. This is why we should not produce Brazilian TV series but more different and serious stories.”
The director said Turkish cinema should broaden its horizons and make stories on a wide range from Sarajevo to Tabriz and from Baku to Almaty.
Sınav also said Turkish TV series were very popular across a wide region. “Turkish TV series draw great interest in many countries. Turkish artists are loved so much. We have to make the most of it and make good productions for further cultural collaborations. This is why we are here.”
First Turkish TV series broadcast abroad
Sınav said the first Turkish TV series broadcast abroad was his “Deli Yürek,” which was sold to Kazakhstan for a low price. It received huge interest in the country and was later shown in Bosnia, drawing the same interest, he added.
“At the moment, Turkish TV series are on the screen in a wide region on three continents. This is a very serious gain and it will bring economic income. You not only sell TV series, you also establish a cultural connection. Brands and tourism are sold thanks to it,” he said. “Politicians or academics couldn’t do this over 20 years but you can do it in one or two years with a TV series. Today, most children under 5 years old in Azerbaijan are speaking Istanbul Turkish.”
Sınav said the interest in Turkish TV series should be evaluated in the best way and added that the most important issue was to find stories in common.
‘Muhteşem Yüzyıl’ disappoints
Filmmakers should also be extra careful during the present period in which the Turkish film sector is opening to the world, he said, adding that there was big interest in the Ottomans throughout the Balkans and that Ottoman heritage still survived in many places.
“The new TV series ‘Muhteşem Yüzyıl’ [Magnificent Century] will draw great interest in the country because of Süleyman the Magificent,” he said. “But I am sure people will say the [Süleyman] in the TV series is different from the man they know. Because he is shown like a poor man running after a woman. It will disappoint them. Producers should have this perspective but they don’t have it. It is too wrong that the Ottoman Sultan [Süleyman], who was called ‘magnificent’ even by his enemies, is shown to be a very simple man,” he said.