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7.5Aydın is a hotel owner and a retired actor in rural Turkey. As winter emerges he begins navigating the conflicts within the relationships with his wife, sister and existence.
Released: 2014-06-13196 minDir: Nuri Bilge CeylanDramaBox office: $4.0M
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Cast
- Haluk Bilginer as Aydın
- Melisa Sözen as Nihal
- Demet Akbağ as Necla
- Ayberk Pekcan as Hidayet
- Serhat Kılıç as İmam Hamdi
- Tamer Levent as Suavi
Themes
- hotel
- husband wife relationship
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Article
Winter Sleep (Turkish: Kış Uykusu [ˈkɯʃ ujkuˈsu]) is a 2014 Turkish drama film directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, adapted from the novella "The Wife" by Anton Chekhov and one subplot of The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The story is set in Anatolia and examines the significant divide between the rich and the poor as well as the powerful and the powerless in Turkey. It stars Haluk Bilginer, Demet Akbağ and Melisa Sözen.
Ceylan had long wished to adapt "The Wife", and shot it in Cappadocia. At the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, the film won the Palme d'Or and the FIPRESCI Prize. The film was selected as the Turkish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards, but was not nominated.