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Motherland Hotel

1987 · 101 min

A slow, suffocating descent into one man's obsessive mind, where quiet routines curdle into unease and the hotel becomes a trap of memory and desire.

Overview
Zebercet is an obsessive man living a monotonous life in a hotel with few customers. This monotonous life changes with the arrival of a woman who does not even give her name. She stays only one night in the room she has rented and leaves the hotel to come back a week later.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • obsession
  • isolation
  • identity
  • loneliness
  • madness
Places
  • small town
  • single country house
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • unreliable narrator
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror3
Humour1
Realism7
Romance2
Tension6
Darkness8
Complexity8
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
crime, drama, thriller
Directed by
Ömer Kavur
Written by
Ömer Kavur
Starring
Macit Koper, Şahika Tekand, Orhan Çağman, Serra Yılmaz, Osman Alyanak, Yaşar Güner, Arslan Kaçar, Cengiz Sezici
Cinematography
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Runtime
101 min
Country
Turkey
Languages
Turkish

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