Yapım :2002 Ülke : Türkiye Tür : Drama Süre : 109 dakika IMDB Puan : 7.8/10 IMDB ID: tt0346094
A.K.A a.k.a. Distant (2002) (International: English title)
Oyuncular Muzaffer Özdemir - Mahmut Emin Toprak - Yusuf Zuhal Gencer Erkaya - Nazan Nazan Kirilmis - Lover Feridun Koc - Janitor Fatma Ceylan - Mother Ebru Ceylan - Young Girl Ebru Yapici -
Bilgi :Mahmut, a 40 year old independent photographer, is a "village boy made good" at least professionally in the big city - Istanbul in this case. After his wife leaves him, he falls into an existential crisis. Then comes his cousin Yusuf, who left his native village after a local factory closed down, effectively unemploying over half the local men. He looks to Istambul for salvation: a job on board a ship sailing abroad, at once exciting and crucial to supporting his family in the desperately poor village. The distance between the two men is apparent at once, and becomes increasingly pronounced. Whereas Mahmut is adusted to big city life and suffers from many of its neuroses, Yusuf is a lonely, excentric country worker with annoying nervous and hygienic habits, and a sick mother back home he must somehow support. This intimate drama was filmed in the directors apartment in Istambul, using all his furniture, appliances, rooms, car and so on as the films props. The actor playing Yusuf is actually the directors real-life cousin, and the actor playing Mahmut is an actual friend, a non-professional actor.
