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Times and Winds(2006)
Status: Released
Date: 2006-09-29
71%
55 Votes
Time: 1h 51m
Overview:
In a small, poor village leaning over high rocky mountains, the villagers are simple and diligent people who struggle to cope with a harsh nature. They earn their living off the earth and a few animals they feed. Fathers always prefer one of their sons. Mothers command their daughters ruthlessly. Ömer, the son of the imam, wishes hopelessly for the death of his father. When he understands that wishful thinking does not have any concrete results, he begins to search for childish ways to kill his father. Yakup is in love with his teacher, and one day after seeing his father spying on the teacher he dreams too, like Ömer, of killing his father. Yıldız studies and tries to manage the household chores imposed by her mother. She learns with irritation about the secrets of the relationship between men and women.
Languages: Italian, Turkish.
Countries:
Turkey
ProductionCompanies:
Imaj
Atlantik Film
Movie: Times and Winds
Top 10 Billed Cast
Elit İşcan
Yıldız
Bülent Emin Yarar
İmam
Taner Birsel
Zekeriya
Yiğit Özşener
Yusuf
Selma Ergeç
The Teacher
Köksal Engür
Onkel Halil
Tilbe Saran
Ömers Mutter
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Overview
In a small, poor village leaning over high rocky mountains, the villagers are simple and diligent people who struggle to cope with a harsh nature. They earn their living off the earth and a few animals they feed. Fathers always prefer one of their sons. Mothers command their daughters ruthlessly. Ömer, the son of the imam, wishes hopelessly for the death of his father. When he understands that wishful thinking does not have any concrete results, he begins to search for childish ways to kill his father. Yakup is in love with his teacher, and one day after seeing his father spying on the teacher he dreams too, like Ömer, of killing his father. Yıldız studies and tries to manage the household chores imposed by her mother. She learns with irritation about the secrets of the relationship between men and women.
Release Date
2006-09-29
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7.136
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