GENRE: Comedy / Drama

RUNTIME: 94’

LANGUAGE: Turkish

STARRING: Ali Seçkiner Alıcı, Murat Kılıç, Şencan Güleryüz, Tarhan Karagöz

DIRECTOR: Mahmut Fazıl Coşkun

PRODUCTION COMPANY: Filmotto Production, Chouchkov Brothers, BKM

1963. Unhappy with the existing social and political situation in Turkey, a group of military officers has planned a coup d’état to take down the government in Ankara. Meanwhile in Istanbul, their conspirators have undertaken the vital mission of taking over the National Radio station and making a formal announcement about the coup. But nothing goes to plan. Faced with a number of obstacles, including a sudden rainstorm, the absence of the radio station technician, a betrayal, the lack of feedback from Ankara and their very own inefficiency, the conspirators scramble to keep their plan on track and announce the success of the coup – that is, if the coup in the capital has taken place at all.

Based on actual events and told over the course of a single night, The Announcement is a wry commentary on Turkey’s uneasy political past - and present. Biting political satire meets subtle comedy in a film that highlights the absurdity of its story without ever being anything less than dead serious.

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