Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- 2011
- 2h 37m
- Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina
A beautiful, thoughtful masterpiece by Nuri Bilge Ceylan; a grotesque road movie about the search of a lost corpse that also composes a poignant autopsy of the human psyche. Awarded with the Grand Prize of the Jury at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.
Synopsis
Life in a small town in the hinterland of Turkey, is like a perpetual journey in the middle of the steppes: a constant feeling that something new and different will suddenly happen which will revitalize the monotonous rhythms of the locals' everyday life. A death and the agony of solving a crime. A group of men trying to discover a dead corpse in the vast steppes of the East as fast as they can. The policeman, the doctor, the prosecutor, the mayor, and the suspect.
Grand Jury Prize
Cannes Film Festival
2011