GENRE: Drama / Crime
RUNTIME: 104’
LANGUAGE: Turkish
STARRING: Barış Atay, Turgay Atalay, Musa Can Pekcan, İbrahim Akgöz, Feyzan Soykan, Caner Erdem, Zülfü Hamit Altın
DIRECTOR: İlker Savaşkurt
PRODUCTION COMPANY: Openvisor / Abbas Nokhasteh
Groom's Block" is a slang in Turkey for prison sections, holding those accused of serious sex crimes, where men judge each other and lash out justice daily. Inspired by the true stories, the movie indicates what kind of things happening in those blocks of the prisons through a newcomer rapist.
In the Groom's Block, the guards and prison governor manipulate tensions, as prisoners push each other to the edge of existence. We experience the tension and paradox of a violent prison and justice systems reflecting the shifting moral norms and structure of Turkish society. The jailed and jailers enforce violent justice daily, expressing in their lives a society confronted with its need to hide from itself, in desperate denial of its cruel contradictions.
