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Director
  
Onur Unlu

Screenplay
  
Onur Unlu

Duration
  

Country
  
Turkey

7.2/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama

Producers
  
Orkun Unlu, Funda Alp

Writer
  
Onur Unlu

Language
  
Five Cities movie poster

Release date
  
April 9, 2010 (2010-04-09)

Cast
  
Beste Bereket
,
Tansu Biçer
,
Ahmet Rifat Sungar
,
Beste Bereket
(Dilek),
Tansu Biçer
(Aydın),
Ahmet Rifat Sungar
(Şevket)

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Five Cities (Turkish: Beş Şehir) is a 2010 Turkish drama film, written, produced and directed by Onur Ünlü, about a young policeman just arrived in Istanbul who falls in love with a woman in a candy shop. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on April 9, 2010 (2010-04-09), won awards at film festivals in Antalya and Istanbul and has been described as, an absurd poetic tale of five seemingly unrelated people’s lives.

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Synopsis

Aydın is a policeman recently appointed to a new post in Istanbul. While trying to get used to life in the big city, Aydın stumbles upon Mehtap, a young woman who works at a candy shop in Beyoğlu, and he falls for her. But there is no way that Aydın can make Mehtap realize that he even exists, just as Şevket, a young man who has dropped out of law school before starting to sell toy trains on the streets to make a living, cannot make Dilek, another girl who works at the same store, realize his feelings for her. When Dilek and Aydın meet, Aydın diverts his uncontrollable feelings toward Dilek.

General Release

The film opened on general release in ten screens across Turkey on April 9, 2010 (2010-04-09) at number twenty-seven in the Turkish box office chart with an opening weekend gross of US$4,728.

Festival Screenings

  • 46th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival (October 10–17, 2009)
  • 29th International Istanbul Film Festival (April 3–18, 2010)
  • Box Office

    The film was in the Turkish box office charts for four weeks and has made a total gross of US$16,329.

    Reviews

    Emine Yıdırım, writing in Today's Zaman, describes the film as, an ensemble cast piece of intertwined stories of the Robert Altman School. The same publication has also described the film as absurd poetic tale of five seemingly unrelated people's lives intertwining in a most interesting way.

    Awards

  • 46th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival Best Screenplay Award: Onur Ünlü (won)
  • 29th International Istanbul Film Festival Best Actor Award: Tansu Biçer (won)
  • References

    Five Cities Wikipedia
    Five Cities IMDb Five Cities themoviedb.org


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