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The Windmill

1986 · 99 min

A wry, gentle comedy of small-town chaos and bureaucratic exaggeration, watching it feels like a warm, slightly absurd slice of history.

Overview: In the last years of the Ottoman Empire, a poor little Anatolian town named Saripinar is hit by a minor earthquake which has neither destroyed nor left it with many casualties. However, a telegraph sent to the central government exaggerates the situation and mentions that the governor of the town has been severely wounded, making the event a nationwide matter.

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Tone: satiricalstrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 2 of 3
whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
cynicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: class
power
politics
deception
family
Places: small town
Era: period
Audience: teen
Form: ensemble
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Scales, 0 to 10
Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	2
Horror	0
Humour	7
Realism	7
Romance	3
Tension	3
Darkness	4
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	4

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Genres: comedy, history
Directed by: Atıf Yılmaz
Written by: Barış Pirhasan
Starring: Şener Şen, Serap Aksoy, Ali Erkazan, Orhan Çağman, Taner Barlas, Oktay Sözbir, Kemal İnci, Nuri Tuğ
Cinematography: Orhan Oğuz
Runtime: 99 min
Country: Turkey
Languages: Turkish

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