The Disenchanted

story

In love – Love

A young girl looks for love. A man waits for death. Whereas his friend waits for him…

Kuzey and Sami runs the Karayel Hotel in Old Foca.

In 1998; the beautiful and young lady Safak comes to Old Foca for doing some research about Greek villages. Safak falls deeply in love with Kuzey, he just loves her. Safak breaks up with him for 5 times, but returns. She disappears upon her last leave by her car.

Everybody in Old Foca is looking for her. Yet, no traces are left behind from her… Safak disappears. Kuzey starts to look for Safak with his fisherman friend Yunus. They cannot find her for five years.

In 2003, Cigdem arrives to the hotel. She pays all the debts so Kuzey can keep the hotel. Cigdem also will have some feelings for Kuzey. But this affection will only remind Safak of Kuzey over and over again.

When the fisherman Yunus tells Kuzey that he has found the remaining of Safak’s car under the sea, Kuzey leaves the hotel. He goes to the same place to meet Safak; under the sea…

trailer

reviews

• The Story of the Unfinished: Reading the Novel The Disenchanted in the Context of Literature and Cinema / Alişan Okumuş

  29 September 2024 · Automatically translated

• The Disenchanted: Lives Loosely Stitched to Themselves in Nature’s Embrace, and the Escape into Abjection as a Possibility of Freedom / Deniz Gündoğan İbrişim

  4 July 2018 · Automatically translated

• The Disenchanted / Ebru Çeliktuğ

  1 July 2018 · Automatically translated

• A film that makes you think about love, affection, remorse and the if-onlys: The Disenchanted / Öznur Eren Kanarya

  17 June 2018 · Automatically translated

• Can’t love and revolution go together? / Uğur Vardan

  16 June 2018 · Automatically translated

• A melancholic love story / Alin Taşçıyan

  15 June 2018 · Automatically translated

• The sound of the undercurrents… / Banu Bozdemir

  15 June 2018 · Automatically translated

• The Disenchanted: Is love about making a choice? / Berna Kuleli

  15 June 2018 · Automatically translated

• THE DISENCHANTED -On those who have little left behind- / Murat Erşahin

  15 June 2018 · Automatically translated

• What the past washes ashore / Dilhan Yılmaz

  14 June 2018 · Automatically translated

posters

Poster design: Savaş Çekiç.

stills

behind the camera

Photographs: Yusuf Darıyerli.

credits

Directed by

• Selim Güneş

Writing

• Selim Güneş (screenplay)
• Mehmet Eroğlu (novel)

Cast

• Mert Tanık (Kuzey)
• Denise Ankel (Şafak)
• Bahar Yanılmaz (Çiğdem)
• Buğra Koçtepe (Sami)
• Hakan Emre Ünal (Yunus)
• Cansu Fırıncı (Şükrü)
• İlyas Özçakır (Şuayip)
• Dilek Koldaş (Mücella)
• Lila Gürmen (Handan)

Produced by

• Nur Güneş (producer)
• Ali Bayraktar (co-producer)
• Nurhan Sıdal (co-producer)

Crew

• Cinematography: Feza Çaldıran
• Film editing: Ahmet Can Çakırca, Selim Güneş
• Music: Mete Aygüven
• Art direction: Natali Yeres
• Sound design: Gökhan Tandoğan
• Production management: Serhan Nasırlı