Tatil Kitabi

Summer Book

Mustafa is a hard-working and ambitious agricultural merchant, who is cold and austere towards his family. One day he has a brain hemorrhage on a business trip and goes into a coma after the operation. Güler, who has been suspecting that her husband is having an affair, is now convinced of it. Their teenage son Veysel, wants to leave the military academy and start a civilian life of his own. Ali, their 10 year old son, has to cope both with his bullying classmates and the chewing gum he has to sell. Uncle Hasan has to solve the mystery about his brother’s mistress and the money lost on his trip.

Director's Biography
Seyfi Teoman, geboren 1977 in Kayseri, Türkei. Zunächst studierte er Wirtschaft an der Boğaziçi Universität in Istanbul. Im Anschluss verbrachte er zwei Jahre in Łódz, wo er an der Polnischen Filmschule Regie studierte. Sein erster Kurzfilm Apartment entstand 2004 und wurde auf zahlreichen internationalen Festivals gezeigt. Tatil Kitabi ist sein erster abendfüllender Spielfilm und hatte bei der Berlinale Premiere.

Filme (Auswahl): Apartment (2004, KF), Tatil Kitabi (Summer Book, 2008)
Special 2009
Seyfi Teoman
Turkey 2008
color
92 minutes
OV with English subtitles
Screenplay Seyfi Teoman
Cinematography Arnau Valls Colomer
Editing Çiçek Kahraman
Music Rahman Altin
With Taner Birsel, Ayten Tökün, Osman İnan, Harun Özüağ, Tayfun Günay
Production
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