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Clouds of May (1999)

Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Overview

This is a movie within a movie, about a director, Muzaffer, who goes back to his hometown to make a film using a cast of local people (based on the director Ceylan’s first feature, Kasaba). While Muzaffer is around, his mother complains about simple health problems, his father is in a legal fight against the government for his land, his cousin leaves his job to help Muzaffer who promises to find him work in Istanbul, and his little cousin Ali tries to carry an egg in his pocket for forty days so that he’ll get the watch of his dreams. In the meantime, they form the cast for Muzaffer’s movie as well.

Length 130 minutes

Actors

Emin Ceylan | Muzaffer Ă–zdemir | Fatma Ceylan | Emin Toprak | Muhammad Zimbaoglu