''Motherland Hotel'' () is a 1987 Turkish film directed by

Ömer Kavur Ömer Kavur (18 June 1944 – 12 May 2005) was a Turkish film director, producer and screenwriter. He directed fourteen films between 1974 and 2003. His film, '' Gece Yolculuğu'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1988 Ca ...

. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by

Yusuf Atılgan Yusuf Atılgan (27 June 1921 – 9 October 1989) was a Turkish novelist and dramatist, who is best known for his novels ''Aylak Adam'' (The Loiterer) and ''Anayurt Oteli'' (Motherland Hotel). He is one of the pioneers of the modern Turkish nove ...

Plot

Zebercet owns a hotel in a small provincial town. He manages to keep it up with the help of one maid, a little girl who lives with him. One evening, one of the clients leaves the hotel, promising to return in a week. Haunted by the memory of the beautiful unknown, it leaves little to be gained by a little melancholy. Overwhelmed by his impulses, he refuses to take any clients, and closes the hotel.

Cast

* Macit Koper - Zebercet *

Şahika Tekand Şahika Tekand (born 1959) is a Turkish actress. She has appeared in more than fifteen films since 1987. Biography Tekand graduated from the Fine Arts Faculty, Department of Theatre and Acting at the Dokuz Eylül University Dokuz Eylül Univ ...

- The lady *

Serra Yılmaz Serra Yılmaz (born 13 September 1954) is a Turkish people, Turkish actress. She has appeared in more than forty films since 1983. On a number of films she collaborated with Ferzan Özpetek. She plays the lead role in the theatre piece ''La Bast ...

- Ortalıkçı * Orhan Çağman - Emekli Subay

Awards

*1987

Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival The Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival (), known for a few years from 2015 as Antalya International Film Festival, is a film festival, held annually since 1963 in Antalya, and is the second most important film festival in Turkey. Since 2009, t ...

: Best Director, Second Best Film *1987

Istanbul Film Festival The Istanbul Film Festival () is the first and oldest international film festival in Turkey, organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts. It is held every year in April in movie theaters in Istanbul, Turkey. As mentioned in its reg ...

: Best Turkish Film *1987

Venice Film Festival The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival (, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival held in Venice, Italy. It is the world's oldest film festival and one of the ...

: FIPRESCI (International Film Critics Federation) Award

External links

* Turkish crime thriller films 1980s Turkish-language films 1987 crime thriller films Films directed by Ömer Kavur Films set in Turkey Films scored by Attila Özdemiroğlu Cockfighting in film {{Turkey-film-stub