Kod Adi: Venüs

An excellently adopted story about Cyprus division. If you want not only read dry facts about events happened here, but also feel the mentality, way of thinking, temperament of both Greek and Turkish Cypriots - this movie is for you. It dips you right in the atmosphere of common people's life with love, friendship, work, disturbed by shots and threats from those who lived next to them. The movie greatly shows the way from living, celebrating, going out together to killing and having a "wall" between each other. The value of movie is also in question it asks: what is more valuable for you - the intangible ideals of being the best, the rightest or happiness of your friend, whom you know from early childhood? And this question is greatly underlined by the love between two main and very different heroes.

I also would like to underline good actors' playing and greatly made costumes, and, of course excellent showing of how people of Cyprus live.

Eager but highly disappointed Eyes were glued to the screen as I awaiting the beginning of this highly anticipated film about the conflict in Cyprus spanning three decades, intermingled with a story about of love and treachery. From the word go the film didn't know what it was meant to be and I as well as the two friends found it extremely difficult to identify with any of the key roles. The plot jumped from character to character and left us thinking "where did that came from". Direction was abysmal , Acting was poor with accents sounding so wrong and actors were not believable, one of the aspects that stood out was that the film was trying to be too big for its budget, you could quite clearly see where the budget had been cut, three cars for the whole one which had been blown up then used again in another scene, camera angles when shots had to take on a lot restricted so that key could make it look larger than it really is. Couple of good points I felt that the DOP was good, lighting seemed to be really nice, and costume believable… I left after watching the film disappointed not sure if that is my fault as I had such high expectations of this film

An interesting film…

In the beginning, you think that it is going to be a historical war film but it is not only about war in Cyprus but also about love. There are two "enemies". A Greek Cypriot, Adamos, and a Turkish Cypriot, Kemal, who love the same woman, Jasmine. At the end of the film you find a big surprise.

I'm not sure what to say about the political language of the film. On the one hand it seems that it's close to the official Turkish point of view but at the same time, you can see that it isn't. Women complain about the war but men never complain. On the contrary, they are fighting for their community!

The end of the film is touching.

A film worth watching. I just watched it and and I am still thinking about it. The only thing wrong with it is that it finishes so soon.It flows so quickly.It needs another 20 minutes on top of the 90 minutes.I think the lead actress(Venus)Jolie Myatt and Cengiz Bozkurt (Adamos) is amazing.The story and cinematography is excellent.I hope there is a sequel.And Cyprus's story is so tragic that I felt sorry for the Country.The fact that its based on a true story it makes it even more interesting.My girlfriend cried at the end but I did not.I came out feeling what a tragedy.I have enjoyed it very much.I don't understand some of the reviews here.I am not sure if we are reviewing the same film.

I have watched the film quite recently, thanks to a friend of mine, and found it fantastic! Worth to watch...

Nice pictures from the beautiful island.

The film is taking place in Cyprus, from the mid 50s till 74. The story of a young and beautiful woman, who finds herself in the middle of a tensed situation in Cyprus. Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots are fighting with each other, British are using some strategies to not to loose the control of island and people are finding their own ways under circumstances...

A nice combination of love and history. The love story of a man and a woman and the one in the middle..