A triptych of literary adaptations explores past, present and future in rural Turkey. “Düne Özlem” (from Hulki Aktunç’s Bir Yergöstericinin Hayatı): A once-famed traveling critic returns after years to the cinema that launched his career—and finds it unrecognizably transformed. “Bugüne Özlem” (from Kemal Tahir’s Arabacı): A horse-drawn cart driver picks up two stranger women en route to a village—unaware they intend to marry him off to their spinster relative. “Yarına Özlem” (from Zeyyat Selimoğlu’s Bıldırcınlar): An old captain haunted by a fatal shipwreck readies quail-hunting with his grandson, even as his daughter-in-law waits in vain for her migrant husband to return from Germany. Each segment poignantly probes longing— for what was, what is, and what might yet come.
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Halil Ergün
Known for
The Road
Steam: The Turkish Bath
Şebnem Doğruer
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Daydreamers
The Void
Fikret Kuşkan
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My Father and My Son
Everything About Mustafa
Levent İnanır
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The Herd
Üvey Baba
Nazan Kesal
Known for
Mrs. Fazilet and Her Daughters
Bitter Lands
Gül Yalaz
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Eyvah Kızım Büyüdü
Sultan
Işık Aras
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The Rose and the Thorn
Perihan Abla
Atilla Ergün
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Troublemaker Hüsnü
Hanzo
Şehnaz Dilan
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Yoksul
Umut Sokağı
Emrah Demirci
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Bay Kamber
Küçük Besleme
Hikmet Karagöz
Known for
Naked Citizen
En Büyük Şaban
Orhan Aydın
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Liberation
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Tülay Eratalay Director · Artun Yeres Screenplay Aykut Tankuter Screenplay
First release October 1, 1995 · Produced in Türkiye
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Türkiye
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Turkish
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Turkish
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Türkiye · October 1, 1995
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