Completed - TURKISH - Family, Drama - 92 minutes
Life in the sunny seaside town is not near as positive as it might seem. Instead of ease and relaxation, there is boredom and resignation. Summer Book cracks open the age-old themes of patriarchal rule, disparity between generational visions, as well as the incapacity to change one's own life.
Year of production : 2008 Director(s) : Seyfi TEOMAN Writer(s) : Seyfi TEOMAN Cast : Taner BIRSEL, Tayfun GUNAY, Harun OZUAG, Ayten TOKUN, Osman INAN Producer(s) : Nadir OPERLI (BULUT FILM), Yamac OKUR (BULUT FILM)
Mustafa is a hard-working and ambitious agricultural merchant who is cold and austere towards his family. One day he has a brain hemorrhage on a business trip and goes into a coma after the operation. Guler, who has been suspecting that her husband is having an affair, is now convinced of it. Veysel, their teenage son, wants to leave the military academy and start a civilian life of his own. Ali, their 10 year old son, has to cope both with his bully classmates and the chewing gums he has to sell. Hasan, Mustafa's brother, chose to live a life in solitude after divorcing his wife and has always been an outsider to the family. But now he find himself involved in his brother's family after his brother goes into a coma. Hasan has to solve the mystery about his brother's mistress and the money lost during his trip.
Country(ies) : TURKEY Start of shooting : August 2007