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Cold of Kalandar

2016 · 138 min

A quiet, patient immersion in mountain hardship, where stubborn hope and family friction unfold at a slow, contemplative pace.

Directed by: Mustafa Kara
Genres: Family, Drama
Starring: Haydar Şişman, Nuray Yeşilaraz, Hanife Kara

Overview: Mehmet is a man living with his family in a mountain village in the Black Sea region. He earns his living by breeding a few animals, while passionately looking for a mineral reserve on the mountains, but his pursuit is seen useless by his family. Devastated by vain efforts, his hope is renewed with a competition. Mehmet will attend the bull fight held in Artvin, but he returns from Artvin completely lost, once again. This simple story pictures the naive portrait of a touching life, a life struggle in hardship and the relationship between nature, animals and human beings.

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Directed by: Mustafa Kara
Genres: Family, Drama
Starring: Haydar Şişman, Nuray Yeşilaraz, Hanife Kara

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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
bleakstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: family
survival
obsession
isolation
nature
Places: countryside
small town
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none

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Action	2
Horror	1
Humour	2
Realism	8
Romance	1
Tension	4
Darkness	6
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: family, drama
Directed by: Mustafa Kara
Written by: Bilal Sert, Mustafa Kara
Starring: Haydar Şişman, Nuray Yeşilaraz, Hanife Kara, İbrahim Kuvvet, Temel Kara, Muzaffer Şen, Hasan Fehmi Hızal, Tuncer Salman
Cinematography: Kürşat Üresin, Cevahir Şahin
Runtime: 138 min
Country: Hungary, Turkey
Languages: Turkish

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