SOMERSAULT IN A COFFIN
A car thief with an unalterably bad reputation. There is almost no car he can't steal, no lock he can't open. But this thief's difference from others does not derive from this characteristic of him. He brings at dawn the cars that he has stolen through the night and leaves them at the spot he has stolen them. He even washes them clean. Car theft for him is a way to shelter from the cold of winter. Because this thief neither has a place to stay, nor a proper job. This hungry and homeless contemporary Tramp one day falls in love with a girl who is an heroin-addict "Somersault in a Coffin" aims to underline the taut unity of possibilities and impossibilities about humans. That is because humans are endowed with the capacity to establish the balance of life under the most suitable conditions, but also to refuse every balance they have established, and not to accept what is rational and suitable for themselves.
Director: Dervis Zaim
Cast: Ahmet Ugurlu, Tuncel Kurtiz, Aysen Aydemir
74 minutes, 1996