Screening Dates: 18 February 2026, Wednesday, 8:00 pm / 8 March 2026, Sunday, 2:00 pm / 31 March 2026, Tuesday, 8:00 pm

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Screenplay: Arthur Laurents; based on the play by Patrick Hamilton
Cast: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Joan Chandler, Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Collier

USA / 1948 / 80 min / Color / English / Turkish subtitles

Rope is adapted from Patrick Hamilton’s stage play Rope’s End, written in 1924 and inspired by a real-life crime. It is the first film Hitchcock shot in color. Set entirely in a single location, the 80-minute film consists of ten extended takes, which Hitchcock skillfully joins to create the illusion of a single continuous shot.

The film opens with two university students who share an apartment strangling a friend with a rope, influenced by a conversation with their former professor about the concept of the Übermensch in Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Following the murder, the pair host a dinner party in their apartment.

The conversations that unfold over the course of the evening subtly remind us that the film was made in the immediate aftermath of World War II.

*Special thanks to our main program sponsor Kurukahveci Mehmet Efendi for their support.

*The film was released in Turkey under the title Ölüm Kararı.