Motherland Hotel
Turkey, 1987, 104 minutes, Color, Turkish; Turkish Sign Language
1987 Antalya Golden Orange FF; Best Film, Best Director Nantes Three Continents Festival; Golden Montgolfiere, Best Actor İstanbul FF; Best Turkish Film of the Year Venice FF; FIPRESCI Prize
Director: Ömer Kavur
Screenplay: Ömer Kavur
Cinematography: Orhan Oğuz
Editing: Mevlüt Koçak
Music: Attila Özdemiroğlu
Production: Alfa Film, Odak Film
Cast: Macit Koper, Şahika Tekand, Orhan Çağman, Serra Yılmaz
A striking “inner world” film with psychological details adapted from the novel of Yusuf Atılgan. With the delayed Ankara train, a mysterious woman arrives in an inherited hotel with 14 rooms near the station. Zebercet, the owner and the clerk of the hotel frantically anticipates the presumed return of the anonymous woman who stayed one night at the hotel. His hopeless wait will for this woman who enters his world as a sexual dream will led Zebercet to his tragic end. (From the book of Agah Özgüç named Turkish Cinema with 100 Films)