IN THE SHADOW by Erdem Tepegöz
A dystopian drama with sci-fi elements. With Numan Acar as the leading actor.
Turkey, 2020, 96’
In a dystopia of undefined place and time, dominated by primitive technology, a group of people is being controlled by an omnipresent surveillance system. When one of them contracts a mysterious disease, out of fear of losing his job he tries to contact the Officials. Doubts arise about the structure he’s working in. By questioning the system, he gets to know the depths of this structure which is dark better than he thought.
BIOGRAPHY:
Erdem Tepegoz was born in 1982. Graduated from Dokuz Eylul University, Department of Economics. He studied film directing in Prague. He traveled all around the world for making many documentaries.
Zerre (The Particle), his first feature film that he had written and directed, won almost 23 awards including Best Film Golden St. George at the 35th Moscow International Film Festival and the movie was screened in 30 countries. The director received many praises from cinema critics on his social realist cinema.
