Theme From Midnight Express 1978

Midnight Express is a 1978 American film directed by Alan Parker. It is based on Billy Hayes' book, also titled Midnight Express, that was adapted into the screenplay by Oliver Stone. Hayes was a young American student sent to a Turkish prison for trying to smuggle hashish out of Turkey. The movie deviates from the book's accounts of the story, especially in its portrayal of Turks, and some have criticized the movie version, including Billy Hayes himself.

Plot from Wikipedia:
On October 6, 1970, after a stay in Istanbul, a US citizen named Billy Hayes is arrested by Turkish police, on high alert due to fear of terrorist attacks, as he is about to fly out of the country with his girlfriend. After being found with several bricks of hashish taped to his body -- about two kilograms in total -- he is arrested. After a while, a shadowy American arrives. He translates for Billy. The police ask where Billy bought the hash. Billy tells them that he bought it from a cab driver and offers to help the police track him down in exchange for his release. He goes with the police to a local market and points the cab driver out but while the police go to arrest the cabbie, Billy makes a run for it. He gets cornered in a building and is recaptured by the mysterious American. Billy is sentenced to four years and two months' imprisonment on the charge of drug possession. He is sent to Sağmalcılar prison (closed in 2008) to serve out his sentence. In the remand centre, he meets and befriends other Western prisoners. In 1974, after a prosecution appeal (who originally wished to have Hayes found guilty of smuggling and not possession), his original sentence is overturned by the Turkish High Court in Ankara and he is ordered to serve a 30-year term for his crime. His stay becomes a living hell: terrifying and unbearable scenes of physical and mental torture follow one another, where bribery, violence and insanity rule the prison.

In 1975, Susan comes to see Billy and is devastated at what the guards have done to him. However, she leaves him a scrapbook, with money hidden inside as "a picture of your good friend Mr. Franklin, from the bank," hoping he can use it to help him escape. After being committed to the prison's insane asylum, Billy again tries to escape, this time by attempting to bribe the head guard to take him to the sanitarium that has no guards, who then takes him to past the sanitarium to another room, intending to rape him. Billy ends up killing the guard. He then puts on an officer's uniform and manages his escape by walking out of the front door. From the epilogue, it is explained that on the night of October 4, 1975 he successfully crossed the border to Greece, and arrived home three weeks later.

check the movie on IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077928/

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[TheWoody1317]

this song describes the depressing feel of what he was going through

[mehdigoudarzi]

@TheWoody1317

I agree .. the depression, wonder, uncertainty and the hope that's dimly visible.

[Obasiliasfilosofos]

If its not "anti-turkism" ,then the film makers less then flattery depiction of Istanbulm, was really just a creative touch to add "suspense and more drama" to their "Locked Up Abroad" movie, At the expense of Turkey's Image much like "Borats" mockery of Kazakhstan when they could have just invented a made up country, If your government had actually let them film in turkey to begin maybe you could have forced them to make some changes, to it, *damage control if you will*

[mehdigoudarzi]

@Obasiliasfilosofos

Such term as "anti-Turkism" is meaningless, just the way Anti-Kazakhstanism doesn't make any sense either. On the other hand, I believe today's Turkish culture, government and media are overwhelmingly filled with "Nationalism", sometimes to an unrealistic unhealthy extent, so in case Turkish government prevents some 'damage control', it wouldn't serve the truth and reality either, i'm afraid.

[SordidGuy]

@Obasiliasfilosofos : Turkey has an image other than this!!!??? The entire area is full of demon animals!!!

[mehdigoudarzi]

@SordidGuy  I'm afraid, your characterization of Turkey, as you vaguely put it, "the whole area" or any other nation is quite simplistic, superficial and naive. It's some racially-biased propaganda to pump up hatred against another ethnic/national group of people. The big elephant in the room which is the root of All Racial Evils is "ETHNOCENTRICITY".

thanks for your comment anyway.

[giorgossk]

I love this song!

[annamagari]

...avevo 12 anni....la musica era già dentro me...

Bellissima colonna sonora..

[michelefezzi1]

inquietante!!



[GUFTV]

Шикарный фильм!!!