After serving a jail sentence, Hasan gets a job driving a hearse for the protestant church, and becomes involved with a widow, Ayse, and her son.
Acting
Talat Bulut's simmering restraint — the man barely blinks and you're wrecked.
Cinematography
Bleached Anatolian landscapes that feel like judgment itself.
Direction
Oğuz lets silence do the screaming. Devastating patience.
Director
Orhan Oğuz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Turkey's 1980s political turmoil, the film uses religious-Protestant minority status as metaphor for systemic exclusion — rare mainstream Turkish cinema acknowledging non-Muslim identity.
Şerif Sezer was primarily a stage actress; this was her breakthrough screen role. She reportedly insisted on doing her own mourning wails, which the director kept in single takes.
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