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Motherland Hotel

Original title: Anayurt Oteli
  • 1987
  • 1h 41m
IMDb RATING
7.5/10
4.9K
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Motherland Hotel (1987)
CrimeDramaThriller

The lonely proprietor of a small hotel in a provincial Turkish town develops a passion for a departed guest and the reality of routine everyday-life starts crumbling into pieces.The lonely proprietor of a small hotel in a provincial Turkish town develops a passion for a departed guest and the reality of routine everyday-life starts crumbling into pieces.The lonely proprietor of a small hotel in a provincial Turkish town develops a passion for a departed guest and the reality of routine everyday-life starts crumbling into pieces.

  • Director
    • Ömer Kavur
  • Writers
    • Yusuf Atilgan
    • Ömer Kavur
  • Stars
    • Macit Koper
    • Sahika Tekand
    • Serra Yilmaz
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.5/10
    4.9K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Ömer Kavur
    • Writers
      • Yusuf Atilgan
      • Ömer Kavur
    • Stars
      • Macit Koper
      • Sahika Tekand
      • Serra Yilmaz
    • 7User reviews
    • 5Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 10 wins & 2 nominations total

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    Macit Koper
    • Zebercet
    Sahika Tekand
    • Esranrengiz Müsteri
    Serra Yilmaz
    • Zeynep
    Osman Alyanak
    Osman Alyanak
    • Parktaki Yasli Adam
    Orhan Basaran
    • Çekingen Adam
    Nevin Buket
    • Hayat Kadini
    Sadik Deveci
    Yasar Güner
    • Kestaneci
    Kemal Inci
    • Celep
    Arslan Kacar
    • Elçi
    Kemal Kocatürk
    • Sanik
    Sener Kökkaya
    • Köylü
    Server Mutlu
    • Tiyatrocu
    Bilgehan Oguz
    • Meyhanedeki Adam
    Cengiz Sezici
    • Sivil Polis
    Ayhan Tanriver
    • Komiser
    Osman Çaglar
    • Borçlu Müsteri
    Orhan Çagman
    • Emekli Subay Mahmut
    • Director
      • Ömer Kavur
    • Writers
      • Yusuf Atilgan
      • Ömer Kavur
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    7FHT01

    Zebercet

    A beautiful Ömer Kavur film that questions human psychology and the effects of forced loneliness in the simplest and most honest way. And I will pay more attention to the towels.
    2toprako-82520

    Shame thls movie is thrown out as a masterpiece of Turkish cinema

    Such a bad acting, lights, sound and music for a 1987 year made movie. The novel is pretty good and obscure but thid adaptation doesn not reflete at all the atmosphere.

    Dialogues are literally taken word by word from the novel which makes the adaptation harder.

    Passage from a scene to another are really awkward and make difficult to follow.

    It reminded me of how mediocre was the adaptation of 'The Stranger' novel by Camus to the cinema . This is no exception To resume, a poor adaptation which doesn't stand the test of tlme...

    Nothlng genius in thls movle, not one thlng.
    yusufpiskin

    Masterpiece

    Yusuf Atilgan, Omer Kavur, Macit Koper and The Cure. An amazing staff. An amazing adaptation. An amazing work of art. Literally "a movie dedicated to loneliness". In this sense, it is very faithful to the work to which it is adapted. Anyone who says they love cinema should watch it.
    8sinanuckardes

    Our turk

    Kavur's beste film spectacular , Marvel lovers don't understand. Speak for yourself Not say "we are turk"
    9pasalihakan

    More Than A Hotel: Motherland

    A three stories, fourteen rooms manor facing the street that leads from station square to main street of the city (indeed Manisa). Once built on the Greek neighbourhood by great grandfather of Zebercet (Olivine). Luckily rescued from the fire of 1922. But after that, the family decides to move to Izmir and the father of Zebercet insists on turning it into a hotel. Zebercet, the clerk and present owner of the hotel after his father, born in 1930 in the big room (now No.1) in the ground floor (now the lobby).

    One day a beautiful woman stays there one night and leaves to "visit again within a week or so" and Zebercet starts to wait for this unknown but seemingly long-waited woman who came with delayed Ankara train, as he has been waiting this Kafkaesque manor and the dead. He keeps waiting for her. He gradually loses track of daily life. And hotel goes into a deterioration as if implying psychological decline of its proprietor.

    This based-on-a-novel film is the most striking story of loneliness, alienation and depression in Turkish cinema. It tells the conflict of individual in a repressive society, sexual isolation and distortion of personality.

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      The film's director, Omer Kavur, appears as a man entering the hotel with a prostitute.

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    • Release date
      • September 1987 (Italy)
    • Country of origin
      • Turkey
    • Language
      • Turkish
    • Also known as
      • Родной отель
    • Filming locations
      • Nazilli, Aydin, Turkey
    • Production companies
      • Odak Film
      • Alfa Film
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    • Gross worldwide
      • $12,328
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 41 minutes
    • Color
      • Color

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