Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)

Original title

Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da

Directed by

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Genre

drama film, crime film

Country

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Turkey

Runtime

2h 37m

Rated

M

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 541 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of men, including police and a doctor, drive through the Anatolian countryside at night looking for a buried corpse. They stop at a village and then continue searching in the daylight. The film focuses on the long waiting and conversation among the characters.

slow-burnmelancholicmeditativebleakatmosphericcontemplativequiettense

What happens

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Turkish: Bir Zamanlar Anadolu’da) is a 2011 internationally co-produced drama film, co-written and directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan based on the true experience of one of the film's writers, telling the story of a group of men who search for a dead body on the Anatolian steppe. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on 23 September 2011 (2011-09-23), premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, where it was a co-winner of the Grand Prix. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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