Away from Home

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

April 26, 2001

Original language

Turkish

Spoken languages

Turkish

Countries

Turkey

Production

Haylazz Prodüksiyon

Cast

Erol Keskin,Anna Bielska,Şükran Güngör,Cüneyt Türel,Özlem Çınar,Yalçın Akçay,Tolga Çevik,Devrim Parscan,Özgür Onan,Yiğit Özşenerand 3 more

Director

Semih Kaplanoğlu

Writer

Serpil Kirel,Özden Cankaya,Semih Kaplanoğlu

Producer

Semih Kaplanoğlu

Cinematography

Hayk Kirakosyan

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0284182