Egg

Egg

2007 · 97 min · TR · 5.7 (47 votes)
Dir. Semih Kaplanoğlu · Starring Nejat İşler, Saadet Işıl Aksoy, Ufuk Bayraktar, Kaan Karabacak, Tülin Özen, Cengiz Bozkurt · The Yusuf Trilogy
Drama

Poet Yusuf (35-38) returns to his childhood hometown, which he hadn't visited for years, upon his mother's death. He is faced with a neglected, crumbling house. Ayla, a young girl (17-19) awaits him there. Yusuf has been unaware of the existence of this distant relation who had been living with his mother for five years; He stays by his dead mother's bedside for a while on the morning of his return...

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A quiet, introspective drama that slowly unravels family secrets. It feels like sifting through old photographs, a melancholic exploration of grief and unspoken histories. The atmosphere is somber and deeply personal.

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