"Hammer and Vibration" is an austere and depressing tale. You see the daily routine of the young boy Ahmet, working as apprentice in the car repair workshop, learning his trade and finally mastering the technique of beating the dents out of the tin. In the evening he comes home to his parents, living in poverty in a shed on top of a hill overlooking the poor districts of the city. His elder sister runs off with another man, later she returns home. The dictatorial father becomes bed-ridden. Flash forward: Ahmet has become a master in the workshop and now teaches apprentices himself. He is engaged to a young girl, but the fiancée abandons him after Ahmet doesn't turn up at a rendezvous. His mental health deteriorates. (In the beginning of the film the lawyer-narrator explained the destructive effect of constant hammering on the brain.) In the final scene we see him walking in the prison yard, his right hand itching but tied to his belt so that he cannot execute the hammering movement. Abrupt ending, but I think we got all of the film.
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