Cold of Kalandar

Cold of Kalandar

2016 · 138 min · TR · 7.0 (21 votes)
Dir. Mustafa Kara · Starring Haydar Şişman, Nuray Yeşilaraz, Hanife Kara, İbrahim Kuvvet, Temel Kara, Muzaffer Şen
FamilyDrama

Mehmet is a man living with his family in a mountain village in the Black Sea region. He earns his living by breeding a few animals, while passionately looking for a mineral reserve on the mountains, but his pursuit is seen useless by his family. Devastated by vain efforts, his hope is renewed with a competition. Mehmet will attend the bull fight held in Artvin, but he returns from Artvin completely lost, once again. This simple story pictures the naive portrait of a touching life, a life struggle in hardship and the relationship between nature, animals and human beings.

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A stark, intimate portrait of a man's quiet determination against the unforgiving beauty of nature and the weight of familial expectation. It feels like a deep breath of cold mountain air, both isolating and grounding.

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