A New Project with…
Truly original story...
Unique voice...
High concepts...
Cathartic Climax
- instinctive & intuitive
'1923: Believe...'
Obsessed by ‘first love’s zeal to believe in each other,
two love-struck teenagers forge together a super-human feat in flames of fervour,
to save themselves and birth a new era for their world…
as the powers that be, meet the powers within….
This film is a tribute to the uncelebrated heroism of ordinary people. During the final days of Ottoman Empire, World War I breaks out, and the Sultan’s reign over his defeated and occupied country, is in it’s final hours. Two naive young teenagers impassioned with the zeal of first love’s power to believe in the hopeless cause of their forbidden love, rebel against the constraints of traditional feudal society, and forge together a superhuman feat, unexpectedly defeating the world's most powerful navy…culminating in their celebration as heroes of victory for a new nation, and the dawn of a new age, embodying the personal aspirations of their own individual quests…. Based on historical fact never before told.
From the protective and controlling world of her family’s tiny viilage bakery shop, a small but strong-willed teenager risks everything in an impulsive moment, and flees on a dangerous mission through the mountain forests of her ancestors, awakening self-discovery deep within her of an intuitive self-belief, to rescue the man she loves from certain death, in the final battle to save their civilization....
A giant woodcutter’s orphaned childhood makes him vulnerable prey for the corrupt village headman, exploiting the woodcutter's great strength for cheap labour. In his simple mind the only solution the woodcutter can find, is to seek refuge high up in his mountain homeland; but instead, the headman banishes him on a mission of certain death to the battlefront. The only two people that love him, come to his rescue, and trusting in their ardent pleas despite his doubts and fears, he agrees skeptically to follow their plan to save himself. Ignited with the impassioned zeal of the bakery maid’s power of self-belief, he rises, inflamed with fervour, to meet the superhuman challenge to defeat an all powerful enemy, to redeem his place in the world….
The elderly postman's kind and fatherly concern for the simple folk he greets every morning in his village, is commandeered into action as two rebellious teenagers are doomed to a fatal destiny, and mustering all the guile and ingenuity of his life-long wisdom, he creates the keys to unlock the labyrinth of challenges they struggle to overcome, as he guide's them on a quest to save their world ....
'1923: Believe…'
Surprising revelations of hidden history
Endearing heart-felt portrayal of naieve love
Impossible challenge and superhuman feat
From doom's gloom & hopelessness to victory's jubilation
Catharsis of grief, determination, and self-belief
Timeless tribute to human endurance, hope, and self-empowerment
A story about a flawed and outcast hero, sacrificed on an impossible mission to save the world, transformed by naieve love’s powerful zeal, with a super-human feat… rising victorious at the dawn of a new age.
Resonating deeply with instinctive intuitive appeal....
High concepts...
Conveyed with traditional Turkish charm…
Connecting with global audiences' personal aspirations ...
'Once we begin believing in ourselves,
there is no end to what we can achieve…’
Esra Ergenc
All of us aspire to better our lives and pursue our dreams, and so we can all relate and identify with this story and characters, to lift us up above our fears and self-doubt… because we all know once we begin believing in ourselves, there is no end to what we can achieve…
Introduction to Creation, Project & Production
Teenage rebels' self discovery, coming of age with first love’s zeal, obsession, and indomitable determination... An outcast and simple-minded giant woodcutter’s sacrifice on an impossible mission, triggers his innocent adolescent admirer’s surrender to the call of her latent intuition’s protective instincts. Her burning light of love summons the courage to save him, thrusting the pair into a struggle through war-torn history. Empowered by the discovery deep within her, of an intuitive emotional intelligence, sparks her survival instincts of self-belief. Helping him to find himself, she ignites within the giant woodcutter the fervor to meet his challenge, and together they transform themselves and the world at war around them, with the power to believe.
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View the video interview of author answering the most frequently asked questions (FAQs) in several ‘bite-sized' small viewing segments of 2-4 minutes each - please email Author@RYANOL.com:
Introduction Interview with Author (please request link) :
-Project & Links……
-Creative Concept & Themes
-Screenplay, Plot, Characters
-Production Elements & Breakdown
Based on a true story, in a feudal community of mountain village folk, two teenagers rebel against social taboos, obsessed by ‘first love’s’ zeal to believe in each other, catapulted by despair at war’s darkest hour into flames of fervor, they forge together a super-human feat to save themselves and birth a new era for their world… as the powers that be, meet the powers within.
The most frequently asked questions are answered in an interview with the author, in several ‘bite-sized' short video viewing segments of 2-4 minutes each, please reply to request link by email at ... RYANOL.1@yandex.com
or Esra.Ergenc173@gmail.com ….
Short Video Clips of Author answering FAQs...
1. Introduction to the Project
2. About the Author
3. Author’s Qualifications
4. Author’s First Associations with Turkiye
5. Origins and Relevance of the Story
6. Project Development & Production
7. Tribute & Purpose
8. Themes
9. Characters & Plot
10. Based on a True Story: Historical Facts
11. Success & Celebration
12. Sharing Worldwide
13. Comparisons & Legacy
14. Final Thoughts