About Dry Grasses
The latest existential epic from Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan is a masterclass in characterization, atmosphere, and moral and philosophical inquiry. When he comes under scrutiny for misconduct, cynical middle-school instructor Samet (Deniz Celiloğlu) fears that his punishment will trap him in the snowy, isolated Anatolian village he has grown to despise. The only ray of hope is his relationship with Nuray (Merve Dizdar, who won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival), a fellow teacher who openly challenges Samet’s bitter narcissism—yet Samet’s friendship with his colleague and roommate, Kenan (Musab Ekici), who also has feelings for Nuray, hangs in the balance. Using hypnotic long takes and other bold formal techniques to convey the murky motives of its Dostoevskian protagonist, About Dry Grasses proves Ceylan to be one of cinema’s most incisive investigators of the human condition.
Janus Contemporaries releases Blu-ray and DVD editions of first-run films, fresh from theaters, in association with the Criterion Channel.
INCLUDES
- Meet the Filmmakers, a new interview with director Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Trailer
INCLUDES
- Meet the Filmmakers, a new interview with director Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Trailer
Cast
- Deniz Celiloğlu
- Samet
- Merve Dizdar
- Nuray
- Musab Ekici
- Kenan
- Ece Bağcı
- Sevim
- Erdem Şenocak
- Tolga
- Yüksel Aksu
- Vahit
- Münir Can Cindoruk
- Feyyaz
- Onur Berk Arslanoğlu
- Principal Bekir
- Yildirim Gücük
- Director of education
- Cengiz Bozkurt
- Nail
- S. Emrah Özdemir
- Sergeant
- Elif Ürse
- Assistant Principal Saime
- Elit Andaç Çam
- Firdevs
- Nalan Kuruçim
- Kevser
- Ferhat Akgün
- Guidance Counselor Atakan
- Eylem Canpolat
- Halime
Credits
- Director
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Script writer
- Akin Aksu
- Script writer
- Ebru Ceylan
- Script writer
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Coproducer
- Alexandre Mallet-Guy
- Coproducer
- Janine Jackowski
- Coproducer
- Jonas Dornbach
- Coproducer
- Maren Ade
- Coproducer
- Nadi̇r Öperli̇
- Coproducer
- Kristina Börjeson
- Coproducer
- Anthony Muir
- Coproducer
- Sébastien Beffa
- National coproducer
- Olivier Père
- National coproducer
- Rémi Burah
- National coproducer
- Mehmet Zahi̇d
- National coproducer
- Sobaci Carlos
- National coproducer
- Gerstenhauer Bettina Ricklefs
- Director of photography
- Cevahi̇r Şahi̇n
- Director of photography
- Kürşat Üresi̇n
- Art director
- Meral Aktan
- Music
- Philip Timofeyev
- Music
- Giuseppe Verdi
- Editor
- Oğuz Atabaş
- Editor
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Casting
- Pinar Gök
- Executive producer
- Medi̇ha Di̇dem Türemen
- Sound engineer
- Fati̇h Aydoğdu
- Sound editor
- Clément Laforce
- Rerecording mixer
- Jean-Pierre Laforce
- First assistant director
- Begüm Aydin
- Costumes
- Gülşah Yüksel
- Hair
- Fati̇h Yücel
- Hair
- Fazli Balci
- Makeup
- Nur Morkoç
- Makeup
- Nuri̇ye Gündoğdu
- VFX artist
- Meli̇sa Bodur
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