The Yellow Mercedes
The Yellow Mercedes
| 01 March 1993 (USA)
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The film is based on 'Fikrimin Ince Gulu', a novel by Adalet Agaoglu, which depicts a first generation gurbetci/guest-worker returning home. It covers his land journey in short bursts from Germany to the Turkey's west border - and extensively from thereon to his village close to Ankara - capital of Turkey. He begins his journey purchasing a second hand yellow Mercedes - possibly his first car - using his meager savings working as a laborer. Offering deep insight into the mind of a manual laborer Bayram (Ilyas Salman) making his first trip back home, resorting to flashbacks in highlighting Bayram's motivation and experiences from his childhood right up to the events leading to his first departure from Turkey to Germany.

Reviews
Scanialara You won't be disappointed!
Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.
Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.
Phillipa Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.
alper aydin entire life lost while chasing childhood dream.A homecoming film. if you see the first part (going away) you ll see " otobüs(1975)" by Tunç Okan.. "workers at Germany" is the most interesting social part in turkey for 40 years. Because of their cultural paradox and identity problem. We find chance to see this on Bayram's character. Also his fight with himself and his effort to absolve all his sins for years. Yellow Mercedes (balkız) his only proof about his success in his own war(about changing his social class).his friends, his love, his town , uncle and all others left behind is his only friend on this foreign lands that he born.
mujdatbank Bayram is a clever Turkish guy goes for work to Germany.There was no job and culture of modernity in Turkey in that time.(It is pretty so now as well..) Being an owner of a yellow Mercedes(Car) is a symbol for him to catch up the modern standards .So he struggles to be selected as a candidate for immigration.He fights to be alive in this wild atmosphere.He spends all his attention and money to grasp the symbolic success of living in Germany for a proletariat. He fails at last .... The movie points out that why the lower class of people can not manage to became successful in the life. P.S. hi Bayram a typical working class hero.
yavuztumer This film, adapted from a novel by well-known Turkish novelist Adalet Agaoglu, is a perfect depiction of Turks living in Germany, their problems of identity, the situation of being in-between, i.e. neither being completely Turkish nor being completely German. Of course, Ilyas Salman's amazing acting, depicting a desperate man and his efforts to protect his beloved yellowish Mercedes (which he calls "Sarikiz"-"blonde girl") from the harsh conditions of Turkey is also something that contributes to this.All in all, a must see for audiences of Turkish comedy and diasporic cinema.P.S: If you like this title, I can also highly recommend another Tunc Okan film, called "Otobus".
jank123 If you see movies like this you suddenly understand what people miss by watching so called hollywood movies. You can make the things 1000 times more realistic even if you dont use special effects. And you see that the best movies are those which have no HEROES =)Yes this movie is real. Its taken from the book of a turkish author. The movie is made by french,german and turkish people. I have seen this movie on a french channel "arte" and i think it won awards in europe. Its about a turkish guy who lives in germany,munich just like lots of other turkish people in germany. He works as a street cleaner just to get his dream car. A yellow colored mercedes. One day he will go back to his small village in the eastern turkey and give himself a good name there with his car. As he goes through turkey lots of bad things happen to him. First some ppl steal the star of his mercedes. Later he breaks one of his lamps... then the front window cracks... lots of bad things happen to his car. At the end he gets to a bad road and his car rolls. His car becomes a wreck. He does not give up and reach his village. He learns that his uncle has died and that his girlfriend is married to another guy. And his small village... it does not exist anymore. VERY GOOD MOVIE. if you are american then watch it you will see the difference.