Winter Sleep (film)

Winter Sleep
Film poster
Directed byNuri Bilge Ceylan
Written byNuri Bilge Ceylan
Ebru Ceylan
Produced byZeynep Özbatur Atakan
StarringHaluk Bilginer
Demet Akbag
Melisa Sözen
Tamer Levent
Nejat Isler
CinematographyGökhan Tiryaki
Edited byNuri Bilge Ceylan
Bora Göksingöl
Production
companies
  • NBC Film
  • Bredok Filmproduction
  • Memento Films Production
  • Zeynofilm[1]
Distributed byPinema[1]
Release dates
  • 16 May 2014 (2014-05-16) (Cannes)
  • 13 June 2014 (2014-06-13) (Turkey)
Running time
196 minutes
CountryTurkey
LanguagesTurkish
English
Box office$3.7 million[2]

Winter Sleep (Turkish: Kış Uykusu [ˈkɯʃ ujkuˈsu]) is a 2014 Turkish drama film directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, adapted from the novella "The Wife" by Anton Chekhov and one subplot of The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky.[3] The story is set in Anatolia and examines the significant divide between the rich and the poor as well as the powerful and the powerless in Turkey.[4] It stars Haluk Bilginer, Demet Akbag and Melisa Sözen.

Ceylan had long wished to adapt "The Wife", and shot it in Cappadocia. At the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, the film won the Palme d'Or and the FIPRESCI Prize.[5][6] The film was selected as the Turkish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards, but was not nominated.

  1. ^ a b "Kış Uykusu - Box Office Türkiye". Box Office Türkiye (in Turkish). Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  2. ^ "Kis uykusu (Winter Sleep)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
  3. ^ "Traveling Realisms, Shared Modernities, Eternal Moods: The Uses of Chekhov in Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Winter Sleep". Oxford University Press. 12 March 2019. doi:10.1093/adaptation/apz008. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. ^ "Turkey's harrowing 'Winter Sleep' takes top prize at Cannes". Reuters. 24 May 2014.
  5. ^ "Awards 2014 : Competition". Cannes. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  6. ^ "Festival Reports – Cannes Film Festival 2014". FIPRESCI. Archived from the original on 23 May 2014. Retrieved 23 May 2014.