Where to watch · United States
Not on any service here yet.
Journey to the Sun (1999)
Directed by Yeşim Ustaoğlu
Drama · 1h 49m
Mehmet, a young Turkish man newly migrated from Tire, takes a job searching for water leaks below the surface of the streets of Istanbul. Due to a strange set of events, he is mistaken for a Kurd, imprisoned, and brutally beaten. Upon his release, he becomes an outcast marked as a Kurd.
Cast
Nazmi Kırık
Ara Güler
Crew
- Director
- Yeşim Ustaoğlu
- Writer
- Yeşim Ustaoğlu
- Director of Photography
- Jacek Petrycki
- Original Music Composer
- Vlatko Stefanovski
- Editor
- Nicolas Gaster
- Producer
- Behrooz Hashemian
Details
- Original title
- Güneşe Yolculuk
- Release date
- 1999-02-16
- Runtime
- 1h 49m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- TR
- Spoken languages
- Russian, Turkish, Kurdish, English
- Countries
- Turkey, Germany, Netherlands
- Production
- The Film Company, Medias Res Filmproduktion, Istisnai Filmler ve Reklamlar (IFR)