The snow-covered Anatolian landscape dulls the senses, summer is long gone, and people’s souls are transformed into a chilly permafrost. Samet, a teacher, passes his time engaged in malicious nihilism and subtly manipulating his students. But accusations of improper behavior spark his volatile emotions and raise important existential questions. Does everyone have to be a hero, or do we have a right to antiheroism in times when we feel the weariness of hope? Nuri Bilge Ceylan has lost not an ounce of his intellect. A sustaining novel manifested in cinematic form, About Dry Grasses draws on the legacy of the Russian literary classics, while tearing down the traditional dichotomies of fictional worlds and showing the terrifying beauty of the human mind.
Vojtěch Kočárník
197 min / Color, DCP
Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan
/ Screenplay Akin Aksu, Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan
/ Dir. of Photography Cevahir Sahin, Kürsat Üresin
/ Music Philip Timofeyev, Giuseppe Verdi
/ Sound Fatih Aydogdu, Clement Laforce
/ Editor Oguz Atabas, Nuri Bilge Ceylan
/ Art Director Meral Aktan
/ Producer Nuri Bilge Ceylan
/ Production NBC Film, Memento Production, Komplizen Film
/ Coproduction Second Land, Film I Väst, Arte France Cinéma, Bayerischer Rundfunk, TRT Sinema, Playtime
/ Cast Deniz Celiloglu, Merve Dizdar, Musab Ekici, Ece Bagci, Yuksel Aksu, Munir Can Cindoruk, Onur Berk Arslanoglu
/ Sales Playtime
Nuri Bilge Ceylan (1959, Istanbul). Selected filmography: Clouds of May (Mayıs sıkıntısı, 1999), Distant (Uzak, 2002), Climates (İklimler, 2006), Three Monkeys (Üç maymun, 2008), Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Bir zamanlar Anadolu'da, 2011), Winter Sleep (Kış uykusu, 2014), The Wild Pear Tree (Ahlat ağacı, 2018), About Dry Grasses (Kuru otlar üstüne, 2023).
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