Our Grand Despair
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Our Grand Despair is a 2011 Turkish drama film
, directed by Seyfi Teoman, about two flatmates who reluctantly take in their friend's traumatised sister. The film, which is scheduled to go on nationwide general release across Turkey on , premiered in competition at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival
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Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
, directed by Seyfi Teoman, about two flatmates who reluctantly take in their friend's traumatised sister. The film, which is scheduled to go on nationwide general release across Turkey on , premiered in competition at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival
61st Berlin International Film Festival
The 61st annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from February 10 to February 20, 2011, with actress Isabella Rossellini as the President of the Jury. The Coen Brothers film True Grit opened the festival. 300,000 tickets were sold in total during the event, to 20,000 attendees from 116...
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Cast
- Ilker Aksum as Ender
- Fatih Al as Cetin
- Gunes Sayin as Nihal
- Taner BirselTaner BirselTaner Birsel is a Turkish film actor. He has appeared in twelve films since 1995. He starred in The Confession, which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival....
as Murat - Cetin's brother - Baki DavrakBaki DavrakBaki Davrak is a Turkish-German actor who is known for his leading role in the film The Edge of Heaven which won the Prix du scénario at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.- Filmography :...
as Fikret - Nihal's brother - Mehmet Ali Nuroglu as Bora - Nihal's boyfriend