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Dealer
Thomas Arslan, DE 1998
Screenplay: Thomas Arslan; Camera: Michael Wiesweg; Editing: Bettina Blickwede; Cast: Tamer Yiğit, İdil Üner, Birol Ünel, Baki Davrak, Hussi Kutlucan, Angela Schanelec, Marquard Bohm, Halit Bademsoy, Bilge Bingül, Ramazan Coskun, Fernando Canqui, Erhan Emre, Lea Stefanel. DCP (from 35 mm), colour, 74 min. German and Turkish with English subtitles.
‘Strange how everything changes!’ says the imprisoned small-time drug dealer Can (Tamer Yiğit) in a voice-over at the end. As if he doesn't know what has happened to him. Yet he had gradually become aware of his situation: abandoned by his girlfriend and daughter, under police surveillance and strung along by his employer, he finally decided to give up dealing and work as a kitchen assistant – only to return to selling drugs on the street soon afterwards. The second part of Arslan's Berlin trilogy shows Can's decline (with echoes of Robert Bresson) without external drama, unsentimentally and almost contemplatively. A distinctive colour scheme and close-ups of the protagonist in profile contribute to a certain stylisation – far from depicting a milieu, the film uses minimalist means to describe the mental state that the milieu produces. (B.K.)