Poster from TMDB
Mustang
Sign in to save2015 film directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven
Film · TMDB
7.7In a Turkish village, five orphaned sisters live under strict rule while members of their family prepare their arranged marriages.
Cast
- Güneş Şensoy as Lale
- Doğa Doğuşlu as Nur
- Elit İşcan as Ece
- Tuğba Sunguroğlu as Selma
- İlayda Akdoğan as Sonay
- Ayberk Pekcan as Erol
Themes
- sibling relationship
- arranged marriage
- sexism
- turkey
- run away
- sexual violence
- teenage girl
- gang
- female protagonist
- teenage sexuality
This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.
Ratings
IMDb
7.6/10
42,339 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
97%
Metacritic
83/100
- Year
- 2015
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Rated
- PG-13
- Awards
- Nominated for 1 Oscar. 46 wins & 63 nominations total
via OMDb · IMDb
Key facts
- Directed by
- Deniz Gamze Ergüven
- Written by
- Deniz Gamze Ergüven Alice Winocour
- Produced by
- Charles Gillibert
- Starring
- Güneş Nezihe Şensoy Doğa Zeynep Doğuşlu Tuğba Sunguroğlu Elit İşcan İlayda Akdoğan Nihal Koldaş Ayberk Pekcan
- Cinematography
- David Chizallet Ersin Gok
- Edited by
- Mathilde Van de Moortel
- Music by
- Warren Ellis
- Distributed by
- Ad Vitam
- Release dates
- 19 May 2015 ( 2015-05-19 ) ( Cannes ) 17 June 2015 ( 2015-06-17 ) (France)
- Running time
- 97 minutes
- Countries
- France Germany Turkey
- Language
- Turkish
- Budget
- $1.3 million
- Box office
- $4.9 million
via Wikipedia infobox
~9 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Mustang is a 2015 drama film co-written and directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven in her feature debut. Set at an unspecified time in the 2010s in a remote Turkish village, Mustang depicts the lives of five young orphaned sisters and the challenges they face growing up with extended family as girls in a conservative society. Mustang is an international co-production of France, Germany and Turkey.
It premiered at the Directors' Fortnight section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Europa Cinemas Label Award. Mustang was selected as France's submission and was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards. It received nine nominations at the 41st César Awards and won four, for First Feature Film, Original Screenplay, Editing and Original Music. Mustang has received widespread critical praise.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mustang” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.