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Winner of the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA is the new film from celebrated director Nuri Bilge Ceylan (CLIMATES, DISTANT). In the dead of night, a group of men - among them a police commissioner, a prosecutor, a doctor and a murder suspect - drive through the Anatolian countryside, the serpentine roads and rolling hills lit only by the headlights of their cars. They are searching for a corpse, the victim of a brutal murder. The suspect, who claims he was drunk, can't remember where he buried the body. As night wears on, details about the murder begin to emerge and the investigators' own hidden secrets come to light. In the Anatolian steppes, nothing is what it seems; and when the body is found, the real questions begin.
Original Release
09/23/2011
US Release
01/04/2012
Cast
Name | Character |
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Muhammet Uzuner | Doctor Cemal / Doktor Cemal |
Yilmaz Erdogan | Commissar Naci / Komiser Naci |
Taner Birsel | Prosecutor Nusret / Savcı Nusret |
Ahmet Mumtaz Taylan | Driver Arab Ali / Şoför Arap Ali |
Firat Tanis | Suspect Kenan / Kenan |
Ercan Kesal | Mukhtar / Muhtar |
Erol Erarslan | Murder Victim Yasar / Murder Victim Yaşar |
Ugur Aslanoglu | Courthouse Driver Tevfik |
Murat Kiliç | Police Officer Izzet / Police Officer İzzet |
Şafak Karali | Courthouse Clerk Abidin |
Directors
Writers
Ercan Kesal, Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Cast
Name | Character |
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Muhammet Uzuner | Doctor Cemal / Doktor Cemal |
Yilmaz Erdogan | Commissar Naci / Komiser Naci |
Taner Birsel | Prosecutor Nusret / Savcı Nusret |
Ahmet Mumtaz Taylan | Driver Arab Ali / Şoför Arap Ali |
Firat Tanis | Suspect Kenan / Kenan |
Ercan Kesal | Mukhtar / Muhtar |
Erol Erarslan | Murder Victim Yasar / Murder Victim Yaşar |
Ugur Aslanoglu | Courthouse Driver Tevfik |
Murat Kiliç | Police Officer Izzet / Police Officer İzzet |
Şafak Karali | Courthouse Clerk Abidin |
Emre Şen | Sergeant Onder / Sergeant Önder |
Burhan Yildiz | Suspect Ramazan / Zanli Ramazan |
Nihan Okutucu | Yasar's wife Gülnaz / Yaşar's Wife Gülnaz |
Cansu Demirci | Mukhtar's Daughter Cemile |
Kubilay Tuncer | Autopsy Technician Sakir / Autopsy Technician Şakir |
Salih Ünal | Hospital Cook Hamit |
Aziz İzzet Biçici | Restaurant Owner Kazim / Restaurant Owner Kazım |
Celal Acaralp | Pharmacist Saim |
Ufuk Karaali | Hospital Attendant Sitki / Hospital Attendant Sıtkı |
Fevzi Müftüoğlu | 1st Digger Hayrettin |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Producer |
Murat Akdilek | Producer |
Eda Arikan | Producer |
Zeynep Ozbatur Atakan | Producer |
Müge Kolat | Producer |
Mirsad Purivatra | Producer |
Ibrahim Sahin | Producer |
Can Yilmaz | Producer |
Çagri Erdogan | Producer |