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Motherland Hotel: Directed by Ömer Kavur. With Macit Koper, Sahika Tekand, Serra Yilmaz, Osman Alyanak. The lonely proprietor of a small hotel in a provincial Turkish town develops a passion for a departed guest and the reality of routine everyday-life starts crumbling into pieces.
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- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Ömer Kavur
- 1987-09
Motherland Hotel ( Turkish: Anayurt Oteli) is a 1987 Turkish film directed by Ömer Kavur. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Yusuf Atılgan . Plot. Zebercet owns a hotel in a small provincial town. He manages to keep it up with the help of one maid, a little girl who lives with him.
A seminal work of Turkish cinema, Motherland Hotel probes the shadowy corners of the human psyche. Ömer Kavur brilliantly transposes Yusuf Atılgan’s prose onto celluloid, crafting a film that remains a masterpiece of alienation, the human condition, and a country’s existential angst.
The lonely proprietor of a small hotel in a provincial Turkish town develops a passion for a departed guest and the reality of routine everyday-life starts crumbling into pieces. Omer Kavur recreates Zebercet, the receptionist of a sad, bleak hotel in a small Anatolian town, adapting him from Yusuf Atilgan's novel in an attempt that seemed ...
Zebercet is an obsessive man living a monotonous life in a hotel with few customers. This monotonous life changes with the arrival of a woman who does not even give her name. She stays only one night in the room she has rented and leaves the hotel to come back a week later.
Motherland Hotel. 1987. Anayurt Oteli. Directed by Ömer Kavur. Zebercet is an obsessive man living a monotonous life in a hotel with few customers. This monotonous life changes with the arrival of a woman who does not even give her name. She stays only one night in the room she has rented and leaves the hotel to come back a week later. Remove Ads.
Based on the novel by Yusuf Atılgan, Motherland Hotel is both an effective portrait of a character gradually losing his grip on reality as well as a revealing chronicle of the sights and sounds of small-town Turkey, with its historic buildings, coffee houses, and official calls for prayer.
