Once upon a time in Anatolia

DVD - 2012

In the dead of night, a group of men - among them, a police commissioner, a prosecuter, a doctor and a murder suspect - drive through the Anatolian countryside, the serpentine roads and rolling hills lit only by the headlights of the 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 hidden secrets come to light. In the Anatolian steppes, nothing is what it seems, and when the body is found, the real questions begin.

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Subjects
Genres
Crime films
Feature films
Fiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Published
[New York, N.Y.] : Cinema Guild [2012]
Language
Turkish
English
Other Authors
Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 1959- (film director), Zeynep Özbatur (film producer), Ebru Ceylan, 1976- (screenwriter), Ercan Kesal (actor), Muhammet Uzuner, 1964-, Yılmaz Erdoğan, 1967-, Taner Birsel, Ahmet Mumtaz Taylan, 1965-, Fırat Tanıs, 1975-
Item Description
DVD release of the 2011 motion picture.
Special features: Interview with director Nuri Bilge Ceylan (24 minutes); Anatolia in Cannes (48 minutes); Lost in thought (2012, 24 minutes), a visual essay by Haden Guest, Director of the Harvard Film Archive; theatrical trailer.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (157 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Format
DVD, region 1, NTSC, widescreen (2.35:1); Dolby Digital 5.1.
Audience
Rating: Not rated.
Production Credits
Cinematographer, Gökhan Tiryaki ; editors, Bora Gökşinğol, Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
ISBN
9780781514002
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Review by Library Journal Review

Winner of the Grand Prix at last year's Cannes Film Festival, the latest film from Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Distant; Climates; and Three Monkeys) ranks as his most challenging. The nighttime search for a murder victim by cops, a doctor, a prosecutor, and two suspects allows the director to display his trademark painterly compositions, lingering facial close-ups, minimal dialog, and absence of music. An introspective character piece apt to dazzle the hard-core art-house crowd while boring all others to tears. (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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