In a small Turkish town, two young tuberculous poets try to survive while publishing their poems. As they both fall in love, their life would never be the same.
Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ
Muzaffer Tayyip Uslu
Mert Fırat
Rüştü Onur
Belçim Bilgin
Suzan Özsoy
Farah Zeynep Abdullah
Mediha Sessiz
Yılmaz Erdoğan
Behçet Necatigil
Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan
Zikri Özsoy
Taner Birsel
İsmail Uslu
İpek Bilgin
Muzaffer's Mother
Devrim Yakut
Rüştü'nün Annesi
Aksel Bonfil
Kürşat
Servet Pandur
Suzan'ın Annesi
Ayten Soykök
Mediha'nın Annesi
Emin Gürsoy
Mediha'nın Babası
Celalettin Demirel
Rüştü'nün Babası
Engin Şenkan
Başhekim
Salih Kalyon
Battal
Funda Şirinkal
Nurcan
Deniz Erdoğan
Köylü
Serap Oğan Eren
Kürşat'ın Annesi
Oğuz Okul
Kürşat'ın Babası
Şirincan Çakıroğlu
Ayşegül
İrem Şentürk
Suzan'ın Arkadaşı
Begüm Ertuğrul
Suzan'ın Arkadaşı
Sedef İnanç
Öğrenci
Kasım Bektaş
Öğrenci
Ozan Uygun
Rüştü'nün Kardeşi
Ömer Rulinduz
Mediha'nın Ağabeyi
Miray Akay
Mediha'nın Kardeşi
İlayda Hoşgör
Kürşat'ın Kardeşi
Deniz Özerman
Başhemşire
Şebnem Özberk
Başhemşire
Barış Çakmak
Oktay Rıfat
Director
Yılmaz Erdoğan
September 22, 2014
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A Turkish biographical drama selected to represent the country in the 86th Academy Awards and as we know it was not nominated. The 'Rhino Season' actor starred in a prominent role and directed the movie. This was not a based on the famous people, I don't know honesty, but it is only a my guess after seeing the movie.
It is set in a small Turkish mining town around the time when the second world war was fought in Europe. It talks about two close friends Rustu and Muzaffer in their twenties who aspires to become poets. Craze about typewriters and their life depends on the poem they publish it in the book and weekly magazines. One day they meet a beautiful young women Suzan, daughter of a wealthy businessman and after that their life instantly change with lots of adventures and sorrow.
**''If a poet spends too long in a poetic setting with a philistine, his poetry dries up.''**
I loved the cast and performances. To see their act it was so real, a soul filling character representation. And then the fourth one called Mediha introduced when the story marched almost to the end, but she was good as well alongside the director himself as the fifth main role. The love story was very interesting, but can't say awesome, especially when it ends with a twist that was the moment in the narration peaks so high.
So what's the wrong with the movie was, it did not strengthened exposing characters to the deep. Without initial development it moves on and on to the different set of places in the story. The romance portions were not quite delightful because the whole scenario related to that was like a friendship thing. But it had a reason that only comes out at the end that you have to wait until then.
As from the literature perspective, it was one great inspiring biopic about two faded personalities from the history before the world knowing them. And as from romance and friendship side, it had different level of shades that one can go through in life, I mean like happiness, grief, adventures, survival, disloyal etc. One of the best Turkish movie so far I have seen. Those who are interested in biographical movies and literature should check it out, but remember it is about romance and friendship as well.
7.5/10