The duty of taking the tax return forms of the villagers to the big city is assigned to a naive young guy. The villagers trust him, and hand their tax return forms to him. Taking the forms along with the lunchbox full of beans his mother cooked for him, he's underway. But he meets some weird people on the way, who also run into some other weird people, and things start to follow an unexpected path for everyone involved, bringing hillarious moments along.
Writing
Dialogue that turns mundane errands into existential dread.
Acting
Selim Erdoğan's perfect naive everyman energy.
Direction
Bora Tekay's tight control of comic tension and chaos.
Director
Bora Tekay
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
A rare Turkish dark comedy that predates the international boom of Anatolian weird cinema by almost two decades.
The beans were real and cooked fresh daily; the cast reportedly ate them between takes, leading to some genuinely pained expressions.
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