Portrait of a lost childhood.
Hayat, her father and bedridden grandfather live in a riverside shack near the dangerously dark but breathtakingly beautiful waters of the Bosphorus. Hayat's father owns a small boat that secures the family's survival through a miscellany of not always lawful ventures. Beyond the motion and romance of the water, Hayat's life is harsh and unrelenting. But Hayat has an instinct for survival. Her capacity for courage, endurance and hope in the face of these trials suggest that there is Life despite the manifold injustices of an unjust world.
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Elit İşcan
Hayat
Erdal Beşikçioğlu
Father
Levend Yılmaz
Grandfather
Banu Fotocan
Mother
Handan Karaadam
Kamile
Nebil Sayın
Man
Ertan Tekin
Boy
Metin Yıldırım
Grocer
Önder Açıkbaş
Policeman
Aynur Tokluoğlu
Teacher
İsmail Başöz
School Principal
Canbert Yerguz
Boy #1
Kaan Mestut
Boy #2
Halim Ercan
Boy #3
Güliz Gençoğlu
Young Woman #1
Yaprak Aras Şahinbaş
Young Woman #2
Rahmi Elhan
Imam
Ender Efe Satır
Baby
Kadir Poktiç
Boy's friend
Asil Büyüközçelik
Couple in the Garden
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1996
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2023
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2019
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1984
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2009
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2025
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2019
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1999
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2012
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2021
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2012
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2002
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2020
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1960
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2014
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2025
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2020
Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban surroundings, the family is plunged into the despair of an archaic '80s Britain and their unaffordable new life in an English manor house threatens to destroy the family.
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2018
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2012
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