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Winter Sleep is a 2014 Turkish drama film directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, adapted from the novella "The Wife" by Anton Chekhov and one subplot of The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The story is set in Anatolia and examines the significant divide between the rich and the poor as well as the powerful and the powerless in Turkey. It stars Haluk Bilginer, Demet Akbağ and Melisa Sözen.
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The duration of this movie is three hours and sixteen minutes, which makes this movie to be a timeless masterpiece. After I watched the movie I knew that I won’t come across to something like this…ever. This movie is chosen twice for the best movie from Non-English speaking background (NESB) and I understand why, totally justified. By watching the movie, we can witness a slow atmosphere in Cappadocia while winter is…More
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"Winter Sleep", with which Turkish filmmaker Nouri Bilge Ceylan won the Golden Palm at Cannes in 2014, is one of those films that will never be popular with the general public. But it will be a big mistake not to give him a chance. I know that the prospect of watching a 195-minute film in which (virtually) almost nothing happens - sounds a bit worrying or perhaps sleeping. Because in "Winter Sleep" there are no forb…More