Away from Home
2001 · ★ 7 · Dir. Semih Kaplanoğlu
After several years of numbly mourning his parents death, 26 year old Selim takes a chance on the US lottery for passports and wins. He decides to sell the family olive grove to raise enough money to live in Manhattan and to break all roots to Turkey, leaving his girlfriend behind. When Selim's aged grand uncle, Nasuhi returns from Russia after 58 years he asks Selim to visit with him the olive grove of his youth. Before they depart, Nasuhi finds a beaten Russian girl, Olga who was robbed when she tried to sell herself to raise money to continue her own search for her sea faring father.
- Released
- 2001-04-26
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Language
- TR
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Tolga Çevik
Selim
Erol Keskin
Nasuhi
Anna Bielska
Olga
Özgür Onan
Kaan
Eylem Yıldız
Melike
Özlem Çınar
Ferdag
Saltuk Kaplangı
Yiğit Özşener
Murat
Yalçin Akçay
Şükran Güngör
Devrim Parscan
Cüneyt Türel
