The standoff that has been going on for years between the two famous directors of Turkish cinema, Zeki Demirkubuz and Nuri Bilge Ceylan, has turned into a verbal conflict in the last few days.
With Zeki Demirkubuz, one of the important names of Turkish cinema Nuri Bilge Ceylanhave been experiencing a cold war among themselves for a long time. It is known that the two important names have not spoken for years. About this subject Zeki Demirkubuzmade a statement in a television broadcast he attended. After these statements, Nuri Bilge Ceylan shared on X for the first time in 3 years.
NBC – ZDK debate grows
Demirkubuz reminded that Nuri Bilge Ceylan fainted at the ceremony where his film Kader received the Best Film award at the Antalya Film Festival in 2006. Zeki Demirkubuz responded to the statements made by Nuri Bilge Ceylan:It’s a shame that the country’s only world-class director has fallen into this situation. I don’t understand why he did such a thing after 15 years. There is definitely a calculation and interest behind this. He did it for him.” he said.
Are you the mayor of Cannes?
Demirkubuz was very involved with NBC during the editing of Climates. “a raw move” Demirkubuz said that he did it and then he shot Destiny and NBC shot Climates. “That year, fate wove its webs at the Antalya Film Festival; they increased the Best Film award to 300 thousand liras. 230 thousand dollars. It has no equal in the world. This came while sitting in the hotel lobby on the day the award ceremony was to be announced, such a cool, cool, crispy… The jury was also from Cannes.” There is a veck, a friend of this guy. He even made a joke there, I guess he got a signal from him that he was in a good mood. He was talking to me too, he came and sat at our table, we chatted.
The same evening, they came, his producer, his wife, himself, they sat in front of us during the ceremony, they did not talk to me at all… Ebru said that she was confused when she watched Kader two days ago, we were on good terms. Anyway, they came, he doesn’t speak. I called after him, but he didn’t even look. Anyway, he must have a problem, I said. He received two awards, he came out very resentful or something.
Then I swear on everything that there is not even a single thing against Kader… We have no expectations left anyway. Just before the Best Picture award was announced, this guy fainted. They went and removed it, and I even tried to help.
I called after the ceremony to say ‘are you okay?’ He didn’t want to talk and hasn’t talked since that day. Two days later, we came face to face in Mis Soka and I said, ‘Are you okay?’ He turned his face away. I wanted to slap you once.” he said. ZDK said that by talking to a very close relative of Ceylan, he learned why Ceylan did not talk to him, and that the reason for this was that he spoke against the Cannes Film Festival. Demirkubuz, “Are you the mayor of the Cannes Film Festival or what? What’s it to you?” he said.
“Don’t be mean”
In his response to allegations of plagiarism, Demirkubuz said:We started the movie ‘Kor’ in 2008. It was before ‘Three Monkeys’. We shot it for 10 days, there were problems with the locations, so we quit. Years passed, and I decided to shoot it in 2014. I applied to the Ministry of Culture for ‘Kor’, but there was no support. Ayşe Böhürler, who was at the meeting that day, read ‘Ember’ and said, ‘These Three Monkeys’. Can you imagine the strangeness of the situation? Even though this happened, I did not speak out. By the way, I haven’t watched ‘Three Monkeys’ either. He said something like insinuation, don’t be mean. I will say it directly. I didn’t care because I had never watched ‘Three Monkeys’ and I didn’t want these issues to get to this point. He knows my indifference very well because of other issues.” said.
“I was the one who was humiliated, but I’m definitely not the one who was despicable.”
Nuri Bilge Ceylan won an award at Cannes in 2014 “Hibernation” The book of the movie was published. In this book, Ceylan said, “Three monkey” While responding to the allegation that he plagiarized his movie from Demirkubuz’s script “There is no such thing, but for some reason he prefers to create the impression that there is such a thing. I think it is a shame. We have been friends all these years, we have helped each other a lot. He also said in an interview years later that he had not watched the movie ‘Three Monkeys’. “How can he imply such things about a movie he claims he hasn’t watched? I don’t know. Yes, maybe I was the one who was humiliated here, but I’m definitely not the one who was despicable.” he said.
Demirkubuz also responded to these words in the broadcast he attended. Zeki Demirkubuz, “I haven’t watched Three Monkeys. Don’t be mean. Because I don’t imply, if there is something, I will say it out loud.” said.
Nuri Bilge Ceylan turned to X to answer
He hasn’t posted anything on his X account for three years. Ceylan, who wanted to exercise his right to reply on the issue, broke his silence. In Ceylan’s post: “I was thinking of not answering no matter what he said, but unfortunately this is no longer possible in the face of this style. He’d better start a YouTube channel for himself now. Soon…” statements were included. Ceylan had previously appeared with Demirkubuz in some of his films. 17 years of resentment It was claimed that he made a reference.
