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Hope

1970 · 100 min

A stark, patient trudge through hardship and false hope, heavy with quiet desperation and social anger.

Directed by: Yılmaz Güney
Genres: Drama
Starring: Yılmaz Güney, Gülşen Alnıaçık, Tuncel Kurtiz

Overview: After losing one of his horses in an accident, an illiterate horse cab driver sets out into the desert in a quest for a mythical lost treasure.

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Directed by: Yılmaz Güney
Genres: Drama
Starring: Yılmaz Güney, Gülşen Alnıaçık, Tuncel Kurtiz

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Tone
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: survival
class
obsession
isolation
politics
Places: countryside
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	2
Horror	1
Humour	1
Realism	9
Romance	1
Tension	5
Darkness	7
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Yılmaz Güney
Written by: Yılmaz Güney
Starring: Yılmaz Güney, Gülşen Alnıaçık, Tuncel Kurtiz, Osman Alyanak, Enver Dönmez, Sema Engin, Nizam Ergüden, Hicret Gürson
Music: Arif Erkin Güzelbeyoğlu
Cinematography: Kaya Ererez
Runtime: 100 min
Country: Turkey
Languages: Turkish

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