{"id":107303,"date":"2024-09-29T20:26:56","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T20:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ucm.one\/martin-reads-the-quran-2024-by-jurijs-saule-artkeim%c2%b2\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T15:08:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T15:08:50","slug":"martin-reads-the-quran","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ucm.one\/en\/martin-reads-the-quran\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Reads the Quran (2024) by Jurijs Saule | Artkeim\u00b2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Martin liest den Koran | <\/span>Martin Reads the Quran<\/span>:<\/span><\/h1>\n

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A likeable family man with Iranian roots and a professor of Islamic studies. One asks the other to a conversation about faith and disbelief, good and evil and about the question of whether the precepts of the Koran are compatible with violence. What seems to begin harmlessly in the film \u2018Martin Reads the Koran<\/b>\u2019 by Jurijs Saule<\/b> develops into a mental showdown when the professor realises that his visitor is planning an attack \u2013 and is already arming the bomb. Nothing is certain, nothing is as it seems in this drama, which raises urgent questions about hatred and reconciliation, the causes of radicalisation, mutual respect and a world with and without God…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Synopsis<\/h3>\n
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Martin is a 35-year-old family man with Iranian roots who has only been studying Islam for a year. He visits Professor Neuweiser, a professor of Islamic Studies, to tell him about the exciting terrorist attack he initiated this morning. Martin is confused when criticising terrorists because he believes that they only follow what is written in the Quran. Or can Professor Wise show Martin a passage that clearly forbids killing people with bombs? If not, Martin’s bomb will logically kill many people. The professor has no other weapon than the Koran itself, the word of God, to prove that violence is forbidden.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\nBut did Martin really just visit the professor to get the advice of a \u2018wise man\u2019 or is there something else behind the unannounced visit? Martin himself is the big mystery throughout the film, which only unfolds in its full emotional depth at the end \u2013 only to finally detonate in the hearts of the audience.
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Director’s Note by Jurijs Saule<\/b><\/h3>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]“The challenge of this film was to go beyond the mere telling of a thriller: at its core is a real-time chamber play, actually a duel on an intellectual and emotional level. A seeker and a knower, locked in a physically and emotionally defined space that is also permeated by a real and growing threat.<\/em> As a director, the challenge was to create the tension not only through external action, but through the subtle dynamics of the dialogues, the interaction of question and answer \u2013 thesis and antithesis.<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1561290391124{border-right-width: -15px !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”107234″ img_size=”full” onclick=”link_image” css=””][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”107238″ img_size=”full” onclick=”link_image” css=””][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text css=””]The \u201cnarrowness\u201d of the scope, which is essentially reduced to the place of teaching (university), becomes an important dramaturgical tool: in this cramped setting, every camera movement, every glance, every gesture determines the emotional progress.<\/em> The camera becomes a silent observer of this intellectual exchange, a seismograph of attitudes, assertions and hopes, repeatedly finding uncomfortable or unusual images, axes, framings.<\/em> The aim is to make the invisible visible \u2013 the claim to absoluteness of beliefs and the doubts associated with them, and at the same time to ask general questions about faith, radicalization and moral limits \u2013 without slipping into didactic platitudes.<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Wo verl\u00e4uft die Grenze zwischen Wahnsinn und \u00dcberzeugung, zwischen Behauptung und einer Ungewissheit, dass religi\u00f6se Schriften Gewalt vielleicht doch nicht rechtfertigen? I<\/em>n einer Welt, in der alles unsicher scheint, bleibt die gr\u00f6\u00dfte Herausforderung, das Verborgene mit der gleichen Spannung zu enth\u00fcllen wie das Offensichtliche. Das haben wir mit \u201eMartin liest den Koran\u201c versucht.<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”5px”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″ css=”.vc_custom_1581030319933{margin-top: 15px !important;margin-bottom: 36px !important;background-color: #efefef !important;}”]