Keeping the Bees
5.8
Ayşe returns to her hometown in northeastern Turkey to nurse her gravely ill mother. Before she dies, Ayse’s mother tells her that she will leave Ayse her much loved bee hives to manage. Ayse’s modern life has moved her away from the mountains of her childhood – a life in which the bees and their honey were central. But she puts her city life on hold to manage the bees, which provide a distraction from her grief. Ayse slowly starts to work with the local bee keeper to manage the hives but finds the lessons of her childhood are buried deep and the hives are more difficult to manage than she remembers. Ayse’s failure to pay needful attention to local advice sees her mothers bee hives seriously damaged, if not lost forever. What’s more a Caucasian bear becomes a real threat to her hives and her life.
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Cast
6 people
Meryem Uzerli
Ayşe
Known for
The Magnificent Century
Cingöz Recai
Feyyaz Duman
İlker
Known for
Woman
My Sweet Pepper Land
Hakan Karsak
Ahmet
Known for
Ivy
Butterflies
Burcu Salihoğlu
Mine
Also in
Keşanlı Ali Destanı
Bad Boy
Sennur Nogaylar
Cemile
Known for
Creature
Dizem Kaftan
Also in
The Fall from Heaven
İlkbahar Sonbahar
Eylem Kaftan Director · Serdar Ünlütürk Cinematographer Erkan Erdem Editor
First release September 23, 2019 · Produced in Türkiye · Production TRT
Production
Caba Film
Production
TRT
Production
Türkiye
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Kovan
Original language
Turkish
Spoken on screen
Turkish
Release dates
Türkiye · September 23, 2019
Premiere
No release date listed for United States.
France
March 26, 2021 · Digital · Netflix
United Kingdom
March 26, 2021 · Digital · Netflix
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