{"id":2280143,"date":"2026-02-13T08:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T08:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2280143"},"modified":"2026-02-13T08:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T08:50:11","slug":"yellow-letters-director-ilker-catak-on-political-repression-of-artists-you-have-it-in-the-u-s-too-look-at-what-happened-to-jimmy-kimmel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/yellow-letters-director-ilker-catak-on-political-repression-of-artists-you-have-it-in-the-u-s-too-look-at-what-happened-to-jimmy-kimmel\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Yellow Letters\u2019 Director \u0130lker \u00c7atak on Political Repression of Artists: \u2018You Have It in the U.S. Too. Look at What Happened to Jimmy Kimmel!\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u0130lker \u00c7atak<\/a>, who was born in Berlin to Turkish parents, is back at the Berlinale with \u201cYellow Letters<\/a>,\u201d which unlike his last film \u2014 the Oscar-nominated Germany-set \u201cThe Teachers\u2019 Lounge<\/a>\u201d \u2014 takes place entirely amid political repression in Turkey, even though it was shot in Germany.<\/p>\n

The timely political drama stars Turkish actors \u00d6zg\u00fc Namal<\/a> (Derya<\/a>) and Tansu Bi\u00e7er<\/a> (Aziz) as an artists\u2019 couple whose marriage implodes after they lose their jobs due to their political views.<\/p>\n

\u00c7atak speaks to Variety about how political repression in the arts is not just a Turkish problem these days.<\/p>\n

What drew you to this story in which authoritarian political pressure disrupts a marriage?<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always wanted to make a film about marriage. I\u2019m living in a marriage with a painter \u2014 who happens also to be my co writer on this film \u2014 and we were always fascinated by films such as \u201cMarriage Story<\/a>\u201d [by nm0000876 autoNoah…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u0130lker \u00c7atak, who was born in Berlin to Turkish parents, is back at the Berlinale with \u201cYellow Letters,\u201d which unlike his last film \u2014 the Oscar-nominated Germany-set \u201cThe Teachers\u2019 Lounge\u201d \u2014 takes place entirely amid political repression in Turkey, even though it was shot in Germany. The timely political drama stars Turkish actors \u00d6zg\u00fc Namal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2280144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2280143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/\u2018Yellow-Letters-Director-Ilker-Catak-on-Political-Repression-of-Artists.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2280143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2280145,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280143\/revisions\/2280145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2280143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2280143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2280143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}