Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

  • Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
  • Writer: Ercan Kesal,Ebru Ceylan,Nuri Bilge Ceylan
  • Countries of origin: Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Language: Turkish
  • Release date: September 23, 2011
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 2.35 : 1
  • Also known as: Якось в Анатолії
  • "Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da" is a 157-minute feature film. Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan director, Nuri Bilge Ceylan , Ebru Ceylan , Ercan Kesal screenwriter, Tal Bill Searle , Yilmaz Erdogan , Muhammet Uzuner , Ahmed Mumtaz. Tellin, Vlad. Tanis Waiting for the leading role, which was released in Turkey on September 23, 2011.
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    Details

    • Release date September 23, 2011
    • Filming locations Keskin, Central Anatolia, Turkey
    • Production companies NBC Film, Production 2006, 1000 Volt

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $152,408

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $10,952

    Gross worldwide

    $2,099,472

    Movie reviews

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    • By Demetrius 2022-04-19 09:02:32

      modern wilderness

      modern wilderness

      Looking back at the beginning of the film, Ceylon's iconic long shot - in the dark night, three cars were on high beams, the interlaced beams created a stage-like illusion, and the mottled light and shadow constructed a strange field. In the meantime, people and things are both vague and clear. The appearance of the person is blurred, the face is placed in the distance, and the dim figure is indistinguishable. But the...

    • By Alessia 2022-04-19 09:02:32

      A few scattered points, spit first is faster

      The movie Once Upon a Time in Anatolia is definitely the most powerful movie in the last year. The gap between it and other movies is not a little or two, but a big chunk. Even in the context of the continuous good films in Cannes last year, "Bicycle Boy", "Melancholia", "Tree of Life", and "Drive" have all become weaker than it. If it is ranked first, the other films should start from the top five.

      Even if this film is placed on the coordinate axis of Ceylon's film work, this film is...

    • By Olen 2022-04-19 09:02:32

      The truth about Ceylon

      Similar to The Three Monkeys, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia is also a truth-seeking film. The police, prosecutors, forensic doctors, and criminals searched for the corpse to autopsy, all in order to find the truth behind a murder, and the truth of Ceylon was often hidden in his finely woven and powerful video text. Different from "Three Monkeys", Ceylon hides those tricky camera angles and contrasts of front and back depth of field, but still retains his usual melancholy long-range shots....

    • By Cade 2022-04-19 09:02:32

      Once Upon a Time in Anatolia: Undercurrents of Ordinary Life

      Under the shroud of darkness, three police cars drove up and down the desolate plateau, only the light of the headlights outlined the outline of the remote Turkish countryside. No one knows what happened, what kind of shocking things happened under this calm and terrifyingly dark night. At the beginning of "Once Upon a Time in Anatolia", the atmosphere was brewed very well, attracting the audience to watch the movie.

      Nubi Ceylon is indeed a master, and a murder case that has been...

    • By Hillary 2022-04-19 09:02:32

      Check out this review after watching the movie

      It's quite natural and real (and leaves a lot of questions for foreign audiences), but it's a little contrived, and the movie is not very smooth in general. Please don't reserve time for the audience to check emails and text messages.

      After reading some of the movie reviews here, I didn't make it clear about the content of the movie itself, so I hereby open a post to discuss it. I still didn't catch many parts of the movie, because when they were on the road with their high-beam...

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    • By Sherman 2022-04-24 07:01:16

      Ceylon-kun, you made the movie so good and not so good, it makes people anxious to watch. . . Working in photography, the change of light and shadow is very attractive. From time to time, an old tower-style long mirror is full of beauty. This is the signature advantage of Ceylon. You can take these advantages to shoot some inexplicably suffocating films. . ok i can only...

    • By Hubert 2022-04-24 07:01:16

      For me, this is a movie worth five stars for the first two shots. Big Love! In the first half of the dark night, the grass waves in those big vistas, the figures in those grass waves move slowly, like Brueghel's paintings; the passage of the rolling apple is simply divine! There are also those magical lights and shadows, and of course that can of Coke that is too funny ^^ When I returned to the town in the second half, I was overloaded with information. I was moved after I understood something...

    • By Chase 2022-04-24 07:01:16

      In Anatolia at night, everyone is preoccupied. The solemn statue in the thunder and lightning, the apple downstream, the candlelight in the long night, the memory of the past is terrible and...

    • By Rosella 2022-04-24 07:01:16

      I couldn't take the last half...

    • By Arnold 2022-04-24 07:01:16

      I like it very much. Somehow. Still, I know...

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    "Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da" is a movie that has always returned to the countryside. The movie implies a dream of the people living in the countryside for the city.
    Director Ceylon, who was born as a photographer, has the traces of Iranian naturalist masters in his photography style, and at the same time integrates the temperament of European film philosophy and aesthetic masters. "Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da" starts with a long and...
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