Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
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Eser Sariyar | ... | Eser |
Çetin Tekindor | ... | Hüseyin | |
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Fikret Kuskan | ... | Sadik |
Hümeyra | ... | Nuran | |
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Ege Tanman | ... | Deniz |
Serif Sezer | ... | Gülbeyaz | |
Yetkin Dikinciler | ... | Salim | |
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Binnur Kaya | ... | Hanife |
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Mahmut Gökgöz | ... | Ibrahim |
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Nergis Çorakçi | ... | Sakine |
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Bilge Sen | ... | Fatma |
Tuba Büyüküstün | ... | Aysun | |
Özge Özberk | ... | Birgül | |
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Erdal Tosun | ... | Gazeteci Mustafa |
Halit Ergenç | ... | Özkan |
Sadik is one of the rebellious youth who has been politically active as a university student and became a left-wing journalist in the 70's, despite his father's expectations of him becoming an agricultural engineer and taking control of their family farm in an Aegean village. On the dawn of September 12, 1980, when a merciless military coup hits the country, they cannot find access to any hospital or a doctor and his wife dies while giving birth to their only child, Deniz. After a long-lasting period of torture, trials, and jail time, Sadik returns to his village with 7-8 years old Deniz, knowing that it will be hard to correct things with his father, Huseyin. Written by Ali Riza Bolukbasi
As I watched that movie, I saw the Turkish relationships in the best way that it could be shown. A very good choice of cast is the most powerful criterion of the success of the movie. Humeyra, the grandmother is a very talented woman in acting. Emotional scenes become more frequent while we see the movie to get to the end. Unfortunate events make the Turkish people get closer to each other. The movie shows that perfectly. Hospitality, love, grief, laughs... Everything is included in this movie. An emotional breakthrough. The movie also points on the elderly reality -now an impossibility- the torture, made by the cops.
Better to be watched by fathers and sons. Also, crying may occur, don't worry; too many people who watched the movie had the same.