Özlem: Düne, Bugüne, Yarına... (1995)
A triptych of literary adaptations explores past, present and future in rural Turkey. “Düne Özlem” (from Hulki Aktunç’s Bir Yergöstericinin Hayatı): A once-famed traveling critic returns after years to the cinema that launched his career—and finds it unrecognizably transformed. “Bugüne Özlem” (from Kemal Tahir’s Arabacı): A horse-drawn cart driver picks up two stranger women en route to a village—unaware they intend to marry him off to their spinster relative. “Yarına Özlem” (from Zeyyat Selimoğlu’s Bıldırcınlar): An old captain haunted by a fatal shipwreck readies quail-hunting with his grandson, even as his daughter-in-law waits in vain for her migrant husband to return from Germany. Each segment poignantly probes longing— for what was, what is, and what might yet come.
Director:
Tülay Eratalay
Writers:
Aykut Tankuter, Artun Yeres.
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| Editing | Aytuğ Aydın | Editor |
| Directing | Yüksel Aksu | Third Assistant Director |
| Production | Selim Aşkın | Producer |
| Directing | Tülay Eratalay | Director |
| Writing | Aykut Tankuter | Screenplay |
| Writing | Hulki Aktunç | Novel |
| Directing | Nurtaç Erimer | First Assistant Director |
| Sound | Nurettin Özsuca | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Kemal Tahir | Novel |
| Camera | Egemen Baykal | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Neslihan Çolakoğlu | Second Assistant Director |
| Camera | Ercan Yılmaz | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Artun Yeres | Screenplay |
| Writing | Zeyyat Selimoğlu | Novel |