The Long Way Home

March. 08,2013      
Rating:
7.2
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Inhospitable at the best of times, the snow-covered mountainscapes of Eastern Anatolia constituted a fatal frontier for many war exiles after the battle of Sarikamish in 1915, and provides a canvas laced with beauty and threat for this bone-chilling survival yarn, the superb debut feature of Alphan Eşeli. Starting out with three characters – a refugee mother and daughter and their grizzled guide – the film traces their daunting trek across this barren terrain to safety, with the Russians encroaching and other stragglers, including a pair of wounded, frostbitten Ottoman soldiers, all orbiting the same burnt-out village they find in their path. Puncturing its aura of ghostly impasse with some shocking narrative reversals, and constantly prickling with the mutual dread of strangers in gruelling extremes, the movie stakes out hugely credible ground next to established Eastern Front war classics (In the Fog, Come and See) while remaining thoroughly its own beast. (Source: LFF programme)

Uğur Polat as  Saci Efendi
Nergis Öztürk as  Gül Hanım
Serdar Orçin as  Onbaşı Sami
Muharrem Bayrak as  Çoban Ali
Şevket Süha Tezel as  Er Mahmut
Sıla Çetindağ as  Zeynep
Miray Akay as  Nihan
Şebnem Hassanisoughi as  Ayşegül
Bora Altaş as  Kemal

Reviews

Hellen
2013/03/08

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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Scanialara
2013/03/09

You won't be disappointed!

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TrueHello
2013/03/10

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

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Loui Blair
2013/03/11

It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

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