In the Blind Spot

2023 [GERMAN]

Drama / Mystery / Thriller

4
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 496 496

Director

Ayse Polat Photo
Ayse Polat

Top cast

Katja Bürkle Photo
Katja Bürkle as Simone
Aybi Era Photo
Aybi Era as Leyla
Tudan Ürper Photo
Tudan Ürper as Hatiçe
Çagla Yurga Photo
Çagla Yurga as Melek
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1.06 GB
1280*690
German 2.0
NR
us  
24 fps
1 hr 58 min
Seeds 1
2.18 GB
1920*1036
German 5.1
NR
us  
24 fps
1 hr 58 min
Seeds 1

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by norbert-plan-618-715813 7 / 10

A gripping political thriller blending surveillance, fantasy, and mystery, keeping viewers uncertain until the end

A thriller that chooses to tell the story from several points of view. But these points of view are not those of characters, but rather two groups of characters and an external observer through cameras, which add to the tension. The context is that a secret group of Turkish police officers are monitoring a Kurdish lawyer in Turkey who is being interviewed by German journalists. In the midst of this is a strange little girl who senses that someone is watching her.The tone of a thriller, with hints of fantasy and a political backdrop, is mixed with scenes from the domestic and everyday life of one of the police officers.A dark thriller bordering on fantasy that works perfectly. Thanks to its tone, which begins like a spy movie and then evolves into impressions of unreality, thanks to these camera shots that the screenwriter director does not explain to us, but which we will understand at the end. Thanks also to the little girl, who is literally frightening, so we don't necessarily know what is real and what is imaginary. Only to return to very concrete and brutal elements in the last part of the film.A very successful stylistic exercise that works: the viewer is intrigued until the very end.
Reviewed by ZeddaZogenau 8 / 10

A Mystery in Kars, Turkey

It was quite a surprise that the Kurdish-German director Ayse POLAT was awarded the GERMAN FILM AWARD for best director and best screenplay in 2024. But if you have seen her film IM TOTEN WINKEL, you know that these honors are not unjustified.Everything takes place in the city of Kars in northeastern Turkey. The Turkish Nobel Prize winner for literature Orhan PAMUK has already set his novel SCHNEE there, at an altitude of 1768 meters above sea level. In Ayse POLAT's film, the somewhat naive director Simone (Katja BÜRKLE) from Germany has traveled to Kars with her cameraman Christian (Max HEMMERSDORFER) to film the old Kurdish woman Hatice (Tudan ÜRPER) during a very personal ritual. Simone is interested in imaginary monuments and recognizes this when Hatice prepares a certain soup every year in memory of her son who disappeared without a trace and distributes it to all the neighbors in her village. The young Kurdish woman Leyla (Aybi ERA) acts as a translator and also has her little English student Melek (Cagla YURGA) with her. Melek sees and feels more than the adults would give her credit for. What Simone does not suspect is that she and her small film crew are under constant observation. One evening there is a loud knock on Simone's hotel door...A very mysterious story is told here from three different perspectives. Little by little it becomes clear how everything is connected and what role Melek's Turkish father Zafer (Ahmet VARLI) plays in it. The conflicts between Turks and Kurds have by no means come to a standstill in the past quarter century; in fact, they still have an impact. All of this is told in the form of an exciting political thriller. But be careful! A genuine ghost story, in the person of little Melek, sneaks into the bitter plot quite imperceptibly. The past is never dead, it is not even past. And: the sleep of reason produces monsters.Admittedly, this is a rather complicated film, but it is very easy to understand through the chosen visual language. A bitter twist, however, is that the German woman, who is also the director, is unable to interpret the images correctly. The language spoken is German, English, Kurdish and Turkish. This film is well worth seeing, you should definitely get involved in this monstrous event!
Reviewed by elihuesi72 8 / 10

A cleverly crafted movie

To understand this movie you have to be aware of some of Turkey's policies in Kurdistan. There are still hundreds of people whose bodies have not been found, they were killed by Turkey's illegal armed groups. Yes, these people have not been found, but their ghosts still haunt this society. This was the situation Melek kept talking about and wanted to know the name of. Because these systematic massacres were never given a name. If it continues like this, it will continue to be a bleeding wound in society.

I had the chance to watch this movie at the Kurdish film festival and I think it does justice to the opening film.

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