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aka HONEY
Year: 2010
UK: Verve Pictures
Cast: Bora Atlas, Erdal Besikcioglu, Tulin Ozen, Ayse Altay,
Alev Ucarer
Director: Semih Kaplanoglu
Countries: Turkey / Germany
Language: Turkish (German / English subtitles)
UK: 104
UK Certificate: PG contains mild emotional upset
UK Release Date: 15 July 2011 (Limited Release)
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Synopsis
Six year old Yusuf (Bora Atlas) has just started at a rural primary
school in northeastern Turkey. His father, Yakup (Erdal Besikcioglu),
gathers honey by climbing up trees to where the hives are situated.
When Yusuf, tags along with his father while he’s working, he
finds the forest is full of mystery and adventure. But above all he
proudly watches his father who works sometimes higher than the eye
can see.
Father and son have a very strong bond and although Yusuf is
tongue-tied to the point of stuttering paralysis in social
situations, he can read and speak quite clearly when he’s
addressing his father. But his classmates target Yusuf because of
his stammer and make fun of him. When his father travels to a
distant forest to hang his hives in a treacherous mountainous area,
Yusuf grows increasing anxious as the days pass and his father
doesn’t return home. Eventually a distraught Yusuf summons all his
courage and sets off alone into the unknown forest to search for his
father.
Third part of the Yusuf trilogy
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