Autumn Turkey / Germany
2008, 106min.
Prod.: Feyzullah Serkan Acar, Kadir Sözen, Script/Dir.: Özcan Alper,Dir. of Phot.: Feza Çaldiran, Compos.: Yuri Ryadchenko, Aysenur Kolivar, Sumru Agiryuruyen, Onok Bozkurt, Prod. Design: Canan Çayir, Sound: Mohammed Mokhtary, Edit.: Adnan Elial.
Cast: Onur Saylak, Raife Yenigül, Megi Kobaladze, Serkan Keskin, Nino Lejava, Sibel Öz, Cihan Çamkerten, Serhan Pirpir, Yasar Güven.
An intricately woven inner journey covering the enduring past, the fleeting present and the lack of a promising future. But despite it all, it is the hope for change, which once drove, and still drives, the characters to firmly cling to their lives. Such is Yusuf: in 1997 he was a politically active left-wing student; and in 2007, he was a disillusioned misfit. After a decade of imprisonment for a lost cause, he returns to his native village in the eastern Black Sea region. His widowed mother is more than happy to welcome him, but the overbearingly beautiful mountains of his homeland only deepen his self-doubt and isolation. One day, meandering in a tavern with his childhood friend, Yusuf encounters a similarly wounded soul. She is the ethereal Eka, a Georgian prostitute who yearns for the day she can reunite with her daughter across the border. These kindred spirits will help each other to confront their darkest fears.
Awards
Best director (Sofia IFF, 2009)
Production Company
Kuzey Film Production
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| Alper, Özcan 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 assistant director and production manager on a variety of productions. He directed a short fiction and two short documentaries. Autumn (2008) is his feature début.
Filmography
Grandmother (2001), Voyage in the Time with a Scientist (2002), Rhapsody and Melancholy in Tokai City (2005), Autumn (2008).
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