Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011) on Netflix
Prosecutor Nusret, Doctor Cemal and police commissar Naci drive through the night around Keskin with suspect Kenan, who cannot recall where he buried the body. Each spot looks like the last.
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Plot summary
Three cars cross the countryside around Keskin through the night, carrying police officers, gendarmes, gravediggers, a doctor, a prosecutor and two brothers held as homicide suspects. Kenan, one of the brothers, is meant to lead the group to the grave of the murdered Yaşar Toprak, but he was drunk when it happened and can no longer place the water fountain where the body was buried. The darkness and the sameness of the landscape work against them. Through the hours the men talk about food, family, former wives, death, suicide, hierarchy and their jobs. Before dawn the prosecutor grows hungry, and the cars pull into a village, where the village mayor asks the prosecutor to press Keskin to help fund a morgue for his elderly townspeople.
Cast
- Erol Erarslanas Murder Victim Yasar
- Burhan Yildizas Suspect Ramazan
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Once Upon a Time in Anatolia is based on real events experienced by one of Nuri Bilge Ceylan's co-writers, a doctor who had been required to work for two years in the town where the plot is set.
- The film's title came from something one of the drivers said during the real events that inspired it, and also references Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West.
