Journey to the Sun
Güneşe Yolculuk
1999 · 1h 49m · Drama · Turkey, Germany
Mehmet, a young Turkish man newly migrated from Tire, takes a job searching for water leaks below the surface of the streets of Istanbul. Due to a strange set of events, he is mistaken for a Kurd, imprisoned, and brutally beaten. Upon his release, he becomes an outcast marked as a Kurd.
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Yeşim Ustaoğlu6.0Smart score
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