Madame

Madame (1988)

Hanım

An elderly piano teacher recently diagnosed with terminal cancer lives in fear of death. But her real fear is who will take care of her cat, her only friend, after her death. As she tries to find someone to take care of her cat, the generational clash of the times and the drastically changing urban identity of Istanbul confront her with an unpleasant prospect.

Date of release
1988-03-03
TMDB
7.2 / 10 (23)
Runtime
1h 42m
Genres
Drama
Director
Halit Refiğ

Casting

Interesting facts

Hanım is a 1989 Turkish drama film directed and co-written by Halit Refiğ. Yıldız Kenter stars as an elderly widow, who has recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer, trying to find someone to take care of her cat Hanım. It premiered at the 26th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, where it was selected as the second runner-up of Best Film award and Refiğ won the Best Director award, and was theatrically released in Turkey on January 5, 1990.

Read on Wikipedia · Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Data from Wikidata.

Recommended