THE THIRD PAGE

THE THIRD PAGE (ÜÇÜNCÜ SAYFA) , 1999

Turkey| HDD, Color, 92’| Turkish

Cast: Ruhi Sarı, Başak Köklükaya, Cengiz Sezici, Serdar Orçin, Emrah Elçiboğa, Naci Taşdöven

İsa, a walk-on in movie productions, is blamed for a fifty-dollar robbery in a mafia-rooted environment. As a result, he is badly beaten and given twenty-four hours to return the money. Instead of finding the money, Isa finds a gun. He decides to commit suicide. Just when he is about to pull the trigger, the doorbell rings…

“Just like in his previous film Innocence, in The Third Page Zeki Demirkubuz also tells a story of ‘misfits’, while also making a statement on cinema. Not content with simply telling a story through cinema, he presents us a story about cinema.The Third Page is above all else about the logic of stirring raw emotions the easy way, which is the common denominator of TV dramas, old Yeşilçam movies, and stories that appear on the photo-heavy third pages of tabloid newspapers; hence the title of the film.” -Tuna Erdem