Sentenced to jail in 1997 as a university student of 22 years, Yusuf is released due to ill health ten years later. He returns to his village in the Eastern Black Sea region, where he is welcomed only by his sick and elderly mother. back home he meets Eka, a beautiful young Georgian hooker. His love for her becomes a final deperate attempt to grasp life and elude loneliness. With the 1990s as a backdrop, the film documents and criticizes recent history, exposing the irony, ruthlessness and reality of the period.
About the film
Details
- Running time
- 1 hr. 39 min.
- Country, year
- Türkiye, Germany, 2008
- Genre
- Drama
- Language
- Turkish
- Subtitles
- Lithuanian, English
- Age rating
- N/A
Credits
- Director
- Özcan Alper
- Screenplay
- Özcan Alper
- Cinematography
- Feza Çaldiran
- Cast
- Onur Saylak, Serkan Keskin, Nino Lejava
- More information
- www.imdb.com
Festivals and awards
- Best Direction
- Silver Prometheus for Best Director
Director
Özcan Alper
Özcan Alper (born 1975, Turkey) attended courses in physics and history of science at the University of Istanbul. Since 1997 he has been working as as
