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Wife as Gramophone

1987 · 82 min

A quiet, tender period drama that lingers on longing and small-town constraint, moving slowly toward a bittersweet ache.

Overview
In the 1930s in Konya, Turkey, the famous belly dancer Cemile dreams of going to the big city. Murat falls in love with her.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • ambition
  • identity
  • class
  • family
Places
  • small town
  • home
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour2
Realism8
Romance6
Tension3
Darkness4
Complexity5
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Yusuf Kurçenli
Written by
Ayşe Şasa, Yusuf Kurçenli
Starring
Türkan Şoray, Hakan Balamir, Emin And, Güzin Özipek, Menderes Samancılar, Gülsen Tuncer, Mehmet Akan, Oktar Durukan
Runtime
82 min
Country
Turkey
Languages
Turkish

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