Motherland (2015)
Ana Yurdu
Nesrin is an urban, middle-class woman recovering from a divorce. She’s quit her office job, abandoned her house in Istanbul, and come to the village house of her deceased grandmother to finish a novel and live out her childhood dream of being a writer. When her conservative and increasingly unhinged mother turns up uninvited and refuses to leave, Nesrin’s writing stalls and her fantasies of village life turn bitter as the two are forced to confront the darker corners of each other’s inner worlds.
- Date of release
- 2015-09-05
- TMDB
- 6.5 / 10 (10)
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Senem Tüzen
Casting
- Esra Bezen Bilgin — Nesrin
- Nihal Koldaş — Halise
- Fatma Kısa — Emine
- Semih Aydin — Halil
- Habibe Doygun — Sister Habibe
- Nuriye Durkan — Neighbor
- Selvet Uysal — Neighbor
- Hüseyin Özdere — Repairman
Interesting facts
- Filmed in: Turkey
Motherland is a 2015 Turkish drama film by director Senem Tüzen about a divorced, urban woman who goes to her ancestral village in Anatolia to write a book and is confronted by the unwelcomed arrival of her mother. The drama stars Esra Bezen Bilgin, Nihal Koldaş, Fatma Kısa and Semih Aydın.
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