Two Women
Cast & Crew:
Director: Mehmet Eryilmaz
Writer : Mehmet Eryilmaz
languages : Turkish
Genres : Crime, Drama
Cast : Zurmrut, Erkin, pervin bagdat, Gokcr Genc, Hakan Tuner
writer & director Mehmet eryılmaz /biograpy
Mehmet Eryılmaz graduated from the Radio & Television
department of Marmara University and went on to study at the
Film & Television Department of Mimar Sinan University.
He has written about cinema and directed
dozens of commercials and video clips.
Eryılmaz has earned recognition known for his cultural films
on traditional Turkish musicians, as well as for his
documentaries, The Songs of Nazım Hikmet and Bedr: A Full Moon
in Film (Tuncel Kurtiz). He performed as an actor in Nuri
Bilge Ceylan’s Climates. He made his first fiction feature,
Hazan Mevsimi (A Fairground Attraction), in 2008, following
this up in 2015 with Misafir (The Visitor)
His films have screened at numerous national and international festivals.
Hehas also served as a jury member at many festivals, as well as
for the Turkish Ministry of Culture’s Film Funding Committee.
He has edited and published books on cinema, among them
Tarkovsky’s memoirs and conversations with Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
He has won 25 awards for his films, including the Fipresci and grand jury
prize at the Montreal World Film Festival. Over the years, he
has trained hundreds of short, documentary and feature film
students and supported their projects both technically and
physically at the script and editing stages. Through the
online script doctoring website he set up with leading Turkish
screenwriter, Gülden Çakır, at www.senaryografi.com, he has
mentored a number of important local films.
Selected Filmography
2024 two women behind bars
2015 Misafir (The Guest) - fiction feature
2012 Aydınlık bir Adam: RAS (An Intellectual: Refik Ahmet
Sevengil) - documentary
2011 İstanbul’da Bayram Sabahı (Eid Morning in Istanbul) -
dramatic documentary
2008 Hazan Mevsimi - Bir Panayır Hikayesi (A Fairground
Attraction) - fiction feature
2007 İklimler (Climates) - fiction feature [actor]
2006 Türk Musikisi Ustaları (Masters of Traditional Turkish
Music) - documentary series
2002 Nazım Hikmet Şarkıları (The Songs of Nazim Hikmet) -
documentary for the Turkish Ministry of Culture
1994 Bedr: Sinemada bir Dolunay (A Full Moon in Film: Tuncel
Kurtiz) - documentary
1993 Seviyorum, Ergo Sum (I Love, Therefore I Am) -
experimental drama
1989 Gençlik Dramaları (Youth Dramas) - four youth dramas for
state broadcaster, TRT
SYNOPSIS
B e h i n d B a r s
Zerda is a young woman who was convicted of murdering her boyfriend and became a mother involuntarily. Esra, the wife of the man she killed, is a middle-aged mother with a sick daughter. The last chance for the survival of her daughter is the matching marrow that will be transplanted from Zerda’s son. Esra begins to see Zerda in prison to persuade her. However, Zerda, angry and wounded, has no intention of signing the necessary permit paper for the marrow transplant operation. Zerda begins to play a game with Esra. Their meetings grow more and more vexing each time. The two women almost fall apart; TWO WOMEN opens the box of Pandora. All that is known about womanhood, maternal instinct, love, human nature, and spiritual and psychological aspects of the relationship between man and woman come out in the open.
2 WOMEN, 1 MURDER, 2 CHILDREN
TECHNICAL INFO
Original title parmaklıklar ardında İKİ KADIN
English title TWO WOMEN behind bars
Shooting Format digital 4K
Formats available DCP
Color color
Running time 114 minutes
Original Film Language Turkish
Screening ratio 16 x 9
Sound dolby 5 :1
Countries of production Turkey
Date of Production : 2024
