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Interview with Emin Alper on "Salvation"

Interview with Emin Alper on "Salvation"

Moviebreak Interviews und Festivals vor 8 Monaten

"Wim Wenders is a great director, but I cannot agree with him"

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Over the past decade, Emin Alper has established himself as one of
contemporary Turkish cinema’s most incisive observers of politics,
power, and the dangerous dynamics of populism. With Salvation, he
returns to the Berlinale with an atmospheric competition entry
examining a society on edge, crafting a story that is equally
intimate and allegorical. A remote community in the Anatolian
mountains becomes the enigmatic setting of an escalating conflict
fueled by pathological paranoia and religious delusion. In
conversation at the 76th Berlinale, the Turkish director reflects
on the story’s universal meaning, the perilous charisma of unstable
leaders, and the anxieties that drive people to succumb to inhumane
cruelties.