The Ban­dits

Two brothers who take very different paths in life to escape the same constricting social suffocation: Karl Moor, the privileged first-born, is trying to escape from a group of bandits whose idealism quickly boils over into terror. Franz Moor, filled with hate and a need for recognition, schemes against his own family and dooms everything. Friedrich Schiller's debut work The Bandits passionately and anarchically examines the contradictions between morality and egocentricity, rationality and emotion, nihilism and sense-making in a chaotic world. Director Ebru Tartıcı Borchers' female ensemble investigates the modern need for self-determination, the price of freedom and how all of this relates to feminism.