The Market: A Tale of Trade (2008)
- Original title
- Pazar: Bir Ticaret Masalı
- Directed by
- Ben Hopkins
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Germany, United Kingdom, Turkey
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Rating
- 6.4 of 10 from 15 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A small-time black market trader in eastern Turkey is hired to find a batch of valuable medicine. The story follows his efforts to complete the task in a provincial town.
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What happens
The Market: A Tale of Trade (Turkish: Pazar: Bir Ticaret Masalı) is a 2008 internationally co-produced drama film written and directed by Ben Hopkins and starring Tayanç Ayaydın as a small-time black market trader in a provincial town in eastern Turkey tasked with procuring some valuable medicine. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on 27 October 2008 (2008-10-27), has won awards at film festivals in Locarno, Ghent and Antalya, where it was the first film directed by a foreigner to win an award in the national competition. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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