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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.
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
Mar 7, 2017 · Turkish writer Yusuf Atılgan’s Motherland Hotel dates from 1973. It was made into an award-winning film in 1986. The translator Fred Stark completed a translation in 1977, but it appears—a note in a review in Turkey’s Hürriyet newspaper to the contrary notwithstanding—not to have ever been published until this edition.
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.
Motherland Hotel was hailed as the novel of the year when it was published in 1973, astonishing critics with its experimental style, its intense psychological depth and its audacious description of sexual obsession.
Oct 15, 2016 · Turkish writer Atilgan's classic 1973 novel about alienation, obsession, and precipitous decline, nimbly translated by Stark. Zeberjet is the owner of the Motherland Hotel, formerly his ancestral home in Izmir, Turkey.
Sep 21, 2016 · Yusuf Atılgan (27 June 1921, Manisa – 9 October 1989, İstanbul) was a Turkish novelist and dramatist, who is best known for his novels Aylak Adam (The Loiterer) and Anayurt Oteli (Motherland Hotel).
