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Director: Pelin Esmer

Producer: Pelin Esmer

Screenplay: Pelin Esmer

Year: 2009

Cinematographer: Özgür Eken

Music:

Cast: Nejat İşler, Mithat Esmer, Tayanç Ayaydın, Laçin Ceylan, Savaş Akova, Sinan Düğmeci, Tülin Özen, Selen Üçer

Color: Colorful

Production Company: Sine Film

Country: Türkiye, Germany, France

Release date: 25.09.2009

Subject: Mr. Mithat, who lives on the fourth floor of the Polis Apartmanı, has managed to protect the collections he has accumulated for years, leaving him only a small living space in his house, against all kinds of threats he has encountered so far. In order not to disrupt the continuity of his collection, any piece he is looking for can take him to every corner of Istanbul. For Mithat Bey, Istanbul is as limitless as his collection. For Ali, Istanbul is limited to Sağlık Apartmanı and its surroundings. Ali, who worked as a doorman in an apartment building when he came to Istanbul from his village, sent his family back to the village a while ago until better conditions were provided when his daughter caught asthma due to the humidity in the doorman's apartment. When the other residents of the apartment building choose to demolish and rebuild the building due to earthquake concerns and the desire to have a more valuable home, the toughest of Mithat Bey's battles for his collection begins. If the building is demolished, Mithat Bey will lose his collections, and Ali will lose both his house and his job. Now the apartment is the common destiny of these two men who live alone. Their relationship, which started for the continuity of the collection, takes a different dimension when Mithat Bey hands over Istanbul to Ali, and ends at a point where they change each other's destinies without realizing it. (Taken from press release)

Awards:

28th Istanbul International Film Festival (2009) "Special Jury Award" (Pelin Esmer)

16th Adana Film Festival (2009) "Best Film Award" "Best Screenplay"

Middle East International Film Festival (Abu Dhabi-2009) “Best Director” (Black Pearl Award” (Pelin Esmer)

Tromso (Norway) Film Festival (2010) “Pibresci Award”

Teouan (Morocco) International Film Festival (2010) “Special Jury Prize"

Cinema Nova (Belgium) Film Festival (2010) “Main Jury and Young Jury Special Awards". Tofifest (Poland) Film Festival (2010) “Best Film”

15th Nuremberg Türkiye-Germany Film Festival (2010) “Best Film”

Cinema Writers Award"

21st Ankara Film Festival (2010) Pelin Esmer “Best Director” (Pelin Esmer) “Best Screenplay” (Pelin Esmer) “Best Art Director” (Naz Erayda)

Eurasia International Film Festival (2010) “Best Director” (Pelin Esmer)

Source:

Evren, M. Burçak. (2014). 100 Years of Turkish Cinema. Republic of Turkey Ministry of Culture and Tourism.

Özgüç, Agâh. (2012). Encyclopedic Dictionary of Turkish Movies. Istanbul: Horizon International.

Özgüç, Agâh. (2014). Dictionary of Turkish Films 1914-2014. Istanbul: Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism.