The film is set in a sprawling old hotel in a small provincial town, which a quiet young man named Zebercet has inherited from his parents. A woman comes to the hotel one night and leaves the next day, saying she will return in a week's time. Zebercet begins to wait with the greatest impatience. When she doesn't come back, he starts falling to pieces in a most preoccupying way, revealing a psychopathic personality below his melancholy, reserved exterior.
Motherland Hotel
Anajurt Oteli
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- Direction: Ömer Kavur
- Script: Ömer Kavur, based on the novel by Yusuf Atilgan
- Cinematography: Orhan Orguz
- Editing: Mevlüt Koçak
- Music: Attila Özdemiroglu
- Actors: Macit Koper, Serra Yilmaz, Orhan ,Ca×gman, ,Sahika Tekand
- Production: Odak Film, Alfa Film
- Producers: Cengiz Ergun
- Sets: Sahin Kaygun
- Format: 35mm
- Color: Colour
- Production Country: Turkey
- Production Year: 1987
- Duration: 110'
- Contact: Alfa Film Ltd., Istiklâl cd. 140/5 Beyo×glu, Istanbul 80080, Turkey, tel.: 212 243 6340, fax: 212 245 3108
Ömer Kavur
Turkish filmmaker Ömer Kavur was born in Ankara, in 1944. After studying journalism and sociology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, he went on to study film at the Conservatoire Indépendant du Cinéma Français. He returned to Turkey in 1971 and began making documentaries and commercials. In 1974, he made his first feature film, Yatik Emine. At fifty-two, having worked in film for twenty-four years, with his own production company (to avoid trouble with the censors) and with eleven feature films to his credit, Ömer Kavur is one of the principal figures of contemporary Turkish cinema. Though he is an atypical director, the kind that is difficult to classify, some may claim he is the loyal representative of the waves that have shaken Turkish cinema since the 80's; his films are intimate, ideologically committed, socially relevant and hugely popular.
Filmography
1974 Yatik Emine
1979 Yusuf ile Kenan
1981 Ah! Güzel Istanbul
1982 Kirik bir a,sk hikayesi
1982 Göl
1984 Körebe
1984 Korebe
1985 Amansiz yol
1987 Anayurt oteli
1987 Gece Yolculugu
1991 Gizil yuz
1995 Bulusma ( short film)
1997 Akrebin yolculugu
