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Annem

1987

A slow, emotionally wrenching drama that immerses you in suffering and improbable reunion, leaving a lingering sense of loss and resilience.

Directed by
Temel Gürsu
Genres
Drama
Starring
Ceylan, Canan Perver, Adile Naşit
Overview
A young woman whose husband works as a laborer in Saudi Arabia returns home to find her daughter Ceylan missing. The woman suffers a great shock and loses her mind. Ceylan has been kidnapped by a young couple who work as cleaners and have no children of their own. Their goal is to extort money from their wealthy grandmothers, who live for the love of their grandchildren. The son-in-law, who had been ostracized by his mother-in-law due to his gambling addiction, manages to salvage his situation thanks to the child he kidnapped. The elderly woman, overjoyed at the prospect of having a grandchild, opens her home to her daughter and son-in-law. Years pass, and the young woman, who has lost her mind, goes to work at a wealthy estate. There, she encounters her daughter Ayşe. However, they do not recognize each other. Ayşe finds the closeness she could not find with her stepmother, whom she believed to be her real mother, in the cleaning woman.

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Directed by
Temel Gürsu
Genres
Drama
Starring
Ceylan, Canan Perver, Adile Naşit
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 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
  • grief
  • family
  • identity
  • class
  • healing
Places
  • big city
  • home
  • single country house
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour2
Realism7
Romance1
Tension5
Darkness7
Complexity4
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Temel Gürsu
Written by
Arda Uskan
Starring
Ceylan, Canan Perver, Adile Naşit, Ünsal Emre, Cemal Gencer, Fikret Fırtına, Muharrem Gürses, Ayten Erman
Cinematography
Abdullah Gürek
Country
Turkey
Languages
Turkish

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