Winter Sleep (2014) on Netflix
Aydın runs a mountaintop hotel in Cappadocia with his young wife Nihal and divorced sister Necla. He rents properties to local tenants, and a tenant's son throws a stone at his car.
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- Rotten Tomatoes87%
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Plot summary
Aydın used to act and now owns a hotel at the top of a mountain in Cappadocia, along with properties he rents to local tenants. He writes a column for a local newspaper and researches the history of Turkish theater, hoping to write a book. His wife, Nihal, is much younger than he is and raises money for schools, a cause he has shown little interest in. His sister Necla, recently divorced, lives at the hotel. Driving to the village with his assistant Hidayet, Aydın has a window shattered by a stone thrown by İlyas, the son of İsmail, a tenant several months behind on his rent. A collection agency has already taken İsmail's television and refrigerator, and the police beat him when he resisted. İsmail's brother Hamdi, the local imam, brings the boy to Aydın to make amends.
Cast
- Emirhan Doruktutanas Ilyas
- Ekrem Ilhanas Atci Ekrem
- Rabia Özelas Fatma
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Winter Sleep (2014)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Accepting the Palme d'Or at Cannes, Nuri Bilge Ceylan dedicated the prize to "all the young people of Turkey, including those who lost their lives", tacitly acknowledging the 2013–14 protests in which 11 people died, and also named the workers killed in the Soma mine disaster the day before the ceremony.
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan co-wrote the screenplay with his wife Ebru Ceylan, and had wanted to adapt Chekhov's "The Wife" for 15 years but did not feel ready to do it.
- Ebru Ceylan, who often debated with her husband Nuri Bilge Ceylan while collaborating on his screenplays, chose to end their writing partnership after Winter Sleep.
