Uzak

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Uzak
Uzak DVD cover
Directed by	Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Produced by	Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Written by	Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Starring	Muzaffer Özdemir Mehmet Emin Toprak
Cinematography	Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Editing by	Ayhan Ergürsel Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Release date(s)	Turkey: 20 December 2002 United States: 12 March 2004 United Kingdom: 28 May 2004
Running time	110 min.
Country	Turkey
Language	Turkish
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Uzak is a 2002 Turkish film directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. It was released as Distant in North America, a straight translation of its title.

1 Synopsis
2 Cast
3 Awards
4 External links

[edit] Synopsis

Uzak tells the story of Yusuf (Mehmet Emin Toprak), a young factory worker who loses his job and travels to Istanbul to stay with his relative Mahmut (Muzaffer Özdemir) while looking for a job. Mahmut is a wealthy and intellectual photographer, whereas Yusuf is illiterate, uneducated, and unsophisticated. The two do not get on well. Yusuf assumes that he will easily find work as a sailor, but there are no jobs, and he has no sense of direction or energy. Meanwhile, Mahmut, despite his wealth, is aimless too: his job, which consists of photographing tiles, is dull and inartistic, he can barely express emotions towards his ex-wife or his lover, and while he pretends to enjoy intellectual filmmakers like Andrei Tarkovsky, he switches channels to watch porn as soon as Yusuf leaves the room.

Mahmut attempts to bond with Yusuf and recapture his love of art by taking him on a drive to photograph the beautiful Turkish countryside, but the attempt is a failure on both counts. At the end of the film, Yusuf leaves without telling Mahmut, who is left to sit by the docks, watching the ships on his own.

[edit] Cast

Muzaffer Özdemir
Mehmet Emin Toprak
Zuhal Gencer
Nazan Kırılmış
Feridun Koç
Fatma Ceylan

[edit] Awards

Uzak won 17 awards and 2 nominations, including the Grand Prix and Prix d'interprétation masculine shared by two actors of the film at Cannes film festival in 2003.

[edit] External links

Awards
Preceded by Büyük Adam Küçük Aşk	Golden Orange Award for Best Picture 2002	Succeeded by Karşılaşma
Preceded by The Man Without a Past	Grand Prix, Cannes 2003	Succeeded by Oldboy

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