Directed by:
Reha ErdemScreenplay:
Reha ErdemCinematography:
Florent HerryCast:
Sermet Yeşil, Türkü Turan, Serkan Keskin, Nadir Sarıbacak, Sencar Sağdıç, Murat Deniz, Hakan Altuntaş, Suat Oktay Şenocak, Saadet Çıracı, Saygın Soysal (more)Plots(1)
Love is finally embodied in a Reha Erdem picture as the filmmaker looks directly to the mystical world. A mysterious young man arrives at a snow-covered border town. He might be a harmless vagabond, a thief, a lunatic, or a shaman. Nobody mentions shamanism, yet he displays many surreal signs of shamanic practice and ecstasy. The locals don’t know what to think about this stranger who eats only sugar cubes, doesn’t want a job, and talks continually about love and Allah (although his interest in sensual love doesn’t jibe with what the locals understand as divine love). Erdem here puts the theme of the conflict between society and the individual in a context of cosmic lyricism. While the expressive sound design (his own) supports the spiritual-political-military unease of the town’s atmosphere, the visuals alternate between views of the earth (life), underground (death), and sky (eternity). (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
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Sermet Yeşil
Turkey
Best movies:
A Run for Money (1999)
Kosmos (2010)
The Magnificent Century (2011) (series)
Türkü Turan
Turkey
Best movies:
Dolunay (2017) (series)
Kosmos (2010)
The Girl Named Feriha (2011) (series)
Serkan Keskin
Turkey
Best movies:
Magnificent Century: Kosem (2015) (series)
The Wild Pear Tree (2018)
Autumn (2008)
Nadir Sarıbacak
Turkey
Best movies:
Magnificent Century: Kosem (2015) (series)
Winter Sleep (2014)
Wrong Rosary (2009)
Sencar Sağdıç
Turkey
Best movies:
My Father and Son (2005)
The Wild Pear Tree (2018)
Times and Winds (2006)
Murat Deniz
Best movies:
Kosmos (2010)
Hakan Altuntaş
Best movies:
Kosmos (2010)
Suat Oktay Şenocak
Turkey
Saadet Çıracı
Best movies:
Mrs. Fazilet and Her Daughters (2017) (series)
Kosmos (2010)
Saygın Soysal
Turkey
Best movies:
Jîn (2013)
Snow and the Bear (2022)
Kosmos (2010)
İlker Coşkun
Best movies:
Heist School (2006)
Kosmos (2010)
Asil Büyüközçelik
Best movies:
Magnificent Century: Kosem (2015) (series)
My Only Sunshine (2008)
What's a Human Anyway? (2004)
Onur Özaydın
Best movies:
Kosmos (2010)