Winter Sleep
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7.5Aydın is a hotel owner and a retired actor in rural Turkey. As winter emerges he begins navigating the conflicts within the relationships with his wife, sister and existence.
Released: 2014-06-13196 minDir: Nuri Bilge CeylanDrama
Cast
- Haluk Bilginer as Aydın
- Melisa Sözen as Nihal
- Demet Akbağ as Necla
- Ayberk Pekcan as Hidayet
- Serhat Kılıç as İmam Hamdi
- Tamer Levent as Suavi
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Written by
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Ebru Ceylan
- Produced by
- Zeynep Özbatur Atakan
- Starring
- Haluk Bilginer , Demet Akbağ , Melisa Sözen , Tamer Levent , Nejat İşler
- Cinematography
- Gökhan Tiryaki
- Edited by
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Bora Göksingöl
- Production companies
- NBC Film Bredok Filmproduction Memento Films Production Zeynofilm
- Distributed by
- Pinema
- Release dates
- 16 May 2014 ( 2014-05-16 ) ( Cannes ) 13 June 2014 ( 2014-06-13 ) ( Turkey )
- Running time
- 196 minutes
- Countries
- Turkey, France, Germany
- Languages
- Turkish, English
Key dates
- Published
- 15 January 2015
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Participant in
- 27th European Film Awards
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- France
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Screenwriter
- Ebru Ceylan
- Cast member
- Azita Hajian
- Cinematographer
Article
Winter Sleep (Turkish: Kış Uykusu [ˈkɯʃ ujkuˈsu]) is a 2014 Turkish drama film directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, adapted from the novella "The Wife" by Anton Chekhov and one subplot of The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The story is set in Anatolia and examines the significant divide between the rich and the poor as well as the powerful and the powerless in Turkey. It stars Haluk Bilginer, Demet Akbağ and Melisa Sözen.
Ceylan had long wished to adapt "The Wife", and shot it in Cappadocia. At the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, the film won the Palme d'Or and the FIPRESCI Prize. The film was selected as the Turkish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards, but was not nominated.