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Journey to the Sun

60% | Feb 16, 1999 | Drama

Mehmet, a young Turkish man newly migrated from the village Tire, takes a job searching for water leaks below the surface of the streets of Istanbul. Due to a strange set of events, he is mistaken for a Kurd, imprisoned, and brutally beaten. Upon his release a week later, he becomes an outcast marked as a Kurd, losing his apartment, his job, and eventually his girl friend, Arzu. When a Kurdish friend, Berzan is killed in a street protest triggered by a hunger strike, Mehmet takes a trek to return the body to Berzan's home village near the Iraqi border, and learns why so many Kurds are refugees.

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Yeşim Ustaoğlu
Director
Yeşim Ustaoğlu
Writer

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Newroz Baz
Mehmet
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Ara Güler
Süleyman Bey
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Lucia Marano
Sexy girl

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