The Market: A Tale of Trade | |
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Directed by | Ben Hopkins |
Written by | Ben Hopkins |
Produced by | Roshanak Behesht Nadjad |
Starring | Tayanç Ayaydın Genco Erkal Şenay Aydın Hakan Şahin Rojin |
Cinematography | Konstantin Kröning |
Music by | Cihan Sezer |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
Countries | Turkey Germany United Kingdom Kazakhstan |
Language | Turkish |
Box office | $ 100 076[1] |
The Market: A Tale of Trade (Turkish: Pazar: Bir Ticaret Masalı) is a 2008 internationally co-produced drama film written and directed by Ben Hopkins and starring Tayanç Ayaydın as a small-time black market trader in a provincial town in eastern Turkey tasked with procuring some valuable medicine. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on 27 October 2008 , has won awards at film festivals in Locarno, Ghent and Antalya, where it was the first film directed by a foreigner to win an award in the national competition.[2]