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Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
(2012)Bir zamanlar Anadolu'da
directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 157 minutes
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"It needs to be long, and it needs to be indirect, because the film is about how sad truths can be revealed during the slow process of doing a job." - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times
In the dead of night, a group of men (among them, a police commissioner, a prosecutor, a doctor and a murder suspect) drive through the Anatolian countryside, the serpentine roads and rolling hills lit only by the headlights of their cars. They are searching for a corpse, the victim of a brutal murder. The suspect, who claims he was drunk, can't remember where he buried the body. As night wears on, details about the murder emerge and the investigators' own secrets come to light. In the Anatolian steppes nothing is what it seems. When the body is found, the real questions begin.
GENRES
- Crime / Transgression / Murder
- Drama / Expedition
- International / Eurasian / Turkish
- Crime / Crime-fighter / Police
- Drama / Procedural
Cast & Crew
- Celal Acaralp - Pharmacist Saim
- Ugur Aslanoglu - Courthouse Driver Tevfik
- Taner Birsel - Prosecutor Nusret
- Aziz Izzet Biçici - Restaurant Owner Kazim
- Cansu Demirci - Mukhtar's Daughter Cemile
- Erol Erarslan - Murder Victim Yasar
- Yılmaz Erdoğan - Commissar Naci
- Ufuk Karaali - Hospital Attendant Sitki
- Safak Karali - Courthouse Clerk Abidin
- Ercan Kesal - Mukhtar
- Murat Kiliç - Police Officer Izzet
- Nihan Okutucu - Yasar's wife Gülnaz
- Emre Sen - Sergeant Onder
- Firat Tanis - Suspect Kenan
- Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan - Driver Arab Ali
- Emin Toprak - Hamam Scrubber
- Kubilay Tunçer - Autopsy Technician Sakir
- Muhammet Uzuner - Doctor Cemal
- Burhan Yildiz - Suspect Ramazan
- Salih Ünal - Hospital Cook Hamit
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Reviews
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Not bad at all. Sucks that I had to watch this on VOD -- this film deserved a wider release.
Once upon a time in Anatolia - was a formidable and complex set of relationships of the characters filled with sympathy, predjudice, tantrums, and life & death all balanced in a confined space.