Plot Summary:This is a story of two legendary men, Karagoz and Hacivat, who lived and died by their sense of humor. Bursa, 1330. A an ancient, crowded Roman city at the border of Byzantium. Changed hands 4 years ago and the small Ottoman tribe is just being transformed as a local state, on the remains of the old Eastern Roman Empire. The story takes place in an unrecorded period time, the last 2 months in the lives of two legendary Turkish stand-up comedians, Karagoz & Hacivat? They lived and died during the first clashes of the decaying Eastern Roman Empire and the first Ottomans of the 14th century Anatolia. Their stories and characters are adapted for traditional shadow theatre of the later Ottoman Empire, in modern Turkey and all over the Middle-East, Greece, and western Asia. Their legend and the truth about their tragic deaths are twisted and distorted, although their stingy humor still lingers on. After the the leader of the growing tribe of Ottomans, Orhan Gazi, notices the talents of two ...
《哈吉瓦和黑眼睛》原是一部土耳其的传统皮影戏，讲的是塞尔柱突厥民族在开创奥斯曼帝国前期的民俗故事，其中还涉及到当年蒙古民族的入侵。这部电影由皮影戏改编，听它的原声碟，大量传统喉音（加入了土耳其宫廷色彩），更能感受到已西化的土耳其人对东方游牧的想象。