Crab Play

Overview

Yengeç Oyunu (Crab Play) tells the story of women from a small city, trying to survive. Asya (Ayça İnci) who is a History assistant professor at Istanbul University moves to a town taking her 5-year old daughter İpek, hoping to build a new life. in a little while Asya finds a job at the University and finds herself in an unusual project along her students. A project that will change their life. While investigating old Ottoman documents, they discover a murder case which grabs their attention. At the time seen as an honor killing the suspect has been acquitted. While Asya and her students investigate and find various aspects of this murder, they fight with their own demons as well as those of Turkish society.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

April 3, 2009

Original language

Turkish

Spoken languages

Turkish

Countries

Hungary, Turkey

Cast

Elif Yıldız,Elif Melda Yılmaz,Safak Ersözlü,Ensar Kılıç,Abdulkadir Tulun,Devrim Özder Akın,Pelin Acar,Sevgi Onat,Ayşe Kökçü,Simten Demirkoland 11 more

Director

Ali Özgentürk

Writer

Ali Özgentürk,Gülsüm Öz

Producer

Ali Özgentürk

Cinematography

Márton Miklauzic

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt1399231