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48% Rotten Tomatoes Directed by Yılmaz Erdoğan Written by Yılmaz Erdoğan Cinematography Gökhan Tiryaki Music director Rahman Altın Production companies BKM Film, Böcek Yapım | 7.9/10 IMDb 6.9/10 Letterboxd Produced by Necati Akpınar Music by Rahman Altin Director Yılmaz Erdoğan Story by Yılmaz Erdoğan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Starring Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ
Belçim Bilgin
Mert Fırat
Farah Zeynep Abdullah
Yılmaz Erdoğan Initial release 21 February 2013 (Germany) Cast Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ, Yılmaz Erdoğan, Belçim Bilgin, Mert Fırat, Farah Zeynep Abdullah Similar Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, Rhino Season, The Stranger, Distant, Cars of the Revolution Profiles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Butterfly's Dream (Turkish: Kelebeğin Rüyası) is a 2013 Turkish drama film written and directed by Yılmaz Erdoğan. The film was selected as the Turkish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.
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Rahman Altın, the composer of the score to the film won the "World Soundtrack Awards - Public Choice Award" at the 40th Film Fest Gent.
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After its release on February, 2013, director Yılmaz Erdoğan's feature film Kelebeğin Rüyası (The Butterfly's Dream) was also selected by Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism, Ömer Çelikas, as Turkey's candidate for the 2014's Academy Awards. The storyline, set in the early 1940s of Turkey, revolves around two good male friends, Rustu Onur and Muzaffer Tayyip Uslu. They are members of Garip movement. They make a living out of publishing their poems at a time when life appears hard with the World War II in its full swing across the world. The story takes a turn when both fall in love with other people and life changes for them trying to survive against social class system and religious barriers of the time, which jeopardizes their love life, their friendship and their profession.
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