The Long Way Home

Synopsis

Inhospitable at the best of times, the snow-covered mountainscapes of Eastern Anatolia constituted a fatal frontier for many war exiles after the battle of Sarikamish in 1915, and provides a canvas laced with beauty and threat for this bone-chilling survival yarn, the superb debut feature of Alphan Eşeli. Starting out with three characters – a refugee mother and daughter and their grizzled guide – the film traces their daunting trek across this barren terrain to safety, with the Russians encroaching and other stragglers, including a pair of wounded, frostbitten Ottoman soldiers, all orbiting the same burnt-out village they find in their path. Puncturing its aura of ghostly impasse with some shocking narrative reversals, and constantly prickling with the mutual dread of strangers in gruelling extremes, the movie stakes out hugely credible ground next to established Eastern Front war classics (In the Fog, Come and See) while remaining thoroughly its own beast. (Source: LFF programme)

Main Cast

Uğur Polat

Saci Efendi

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Nergis Öztürk

Gül Hanım

Age : N/A | Popularity : 8%

Serdar Orçin

Onbaşı Sami

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Muharrem Bayrak

Çoban Ali

Age : N/A | Popularity : 4%

Şevket Süha Tezel

Er Mahmut

Age : N/A | Popularity : 6%

Sıla Çetindağ

Zeynep

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Miray Akay

Nihan

Age : N/A | Popularity : 13%

Şebnem Hassanisoughi

Ayşegül

Age : N/A | Popularity : 6%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Alphan Eşeli
Writing	Writer	Alphan Eşeli Serdar Tantekin
Production	Producer	Oğuz Peri
Camera	Director of Photography	Hayk Kirakosyan
Department	Role	Name

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