Kurtuluş Last Stop
Last Stop Liberation

Director: Yusuf Pirhasan
Producer: Necati Akpınar
Screenplay: Barış Pirhasan
Year: 2012
Cinematographer: Carlos Ritter
Art director: Gülay Doğan
Music: Fırat Yükselir
Cast: Belçim Bilgin, Demet Akbağ, Nihal Yalçın, Damla Sönmez, Ayten Soykök, Asuman Dabak, Yavuz Bingöl, Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan, Mete Horozoğlu, Hüseyin Soyaslan, Tuncer Salman, Güneş Sayın, Tolga Karaçelik, Olgun Toker, Dilek Aba
Production Company: BKM
Color: Colorful
Country: Türkiye
Release date: 06.01.2012
Subject: Ordinary women of an ordinary neighborhood have never been this provocative! Nothing will ever be the same again for the women who knock on the door of Eylem (Belçim Bilgin), a psychologist who has just moved to the neighborhood, to make her forget the pain of being abandoned!
Of course, also for men who make the world difficult for them!
Vartanuş (Demet Akbağ), who devoted her life to her bedridden father; Goncagül (Nihal Yalçın), who realized that she would never be able to transition from being the mistress of her mafia boss lover to being his wife; Gülnur (Ayten Soykök), who was used to daily husband beatings as long as she did not interfere with her children; and her daughter Tülay (who received every slap from her mother to her own soul). Damla Sönmez), hairdresser Füsun (Asuman Dabak), who tries to see life in pink. All these women will first bring Eylem, then themselves, and perhaps all the women in the country, together at KURTULUŞ LAST STOP!
The only unshakable principle of our heroes is "We are against all forms of violence!" (Taken from press release)

Notes about the movie:
Kurtuluş Son Durak puts friendship between women at the center of its story. Each of the women living in the Saadet apartment is based on different demographic, class and ethnic origins. This feature of the characters can be seen as a representation of all women who are under the patriarchal order and have different demographic, class and ethnic characteristics. In addition, the film raises women's awareness against violence and points to the power that can arise from unity.
The film shows violence against women in different dimensions and points out that women's solidarity will be salvation.

Contents related to the movie:
Women's Friendship and Solidarity in Turkish Cinema After 2000's: A Case Study "Kurtuluş Son Durak". Topçu, A. D. (2015). In Women's Studies in Turkey and the World, (Editor: Gülseren Ağrıdağ). (15-23).
Representations of Violence Against Women in the Film Kurtuluş Son Durak and the Concept of Home as a Means of Mediation. Yuksel, N. A. A. (2017). Selçuk İletişim, 9(4), 211-220.

Source:
Özgüç, Agâh. (2012). Encyclopedic Dictionary of Turkish Movies. Istanbul: Horizon International.
Özgüç, Agâh. (2014). Dictionary of Turkish Films 1914-2014. Istanbul: Republic of Turkey Culture and Tourism Ministry.
Topçu, Aslıhan Doğan. (2015). Women's Friendship and Solidarity in Turkish Cinema After 2000's: A Case Study "Kurtuluş Son Durak". In Women's Studies in Turkey and the World, (Editor: Gülseren Ağrıdağ), (15-23).