FILM · 2014 · TURKEY

Kış Uykusu

Directed by

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Runtime

196 min

Studio

Memento Production, Bredok Film Production, Zeyno Film

8 archived facts · 2 topics · 1 source · Last reviewed Sep 2026

Aydın is a hotel owner and a retired actor in rural Turkey. As winter emerges he begins navigating the conflicts within the relationships with his wife, sister and existence.

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1. #001

   Kış Uykusu became the second Turkish film to win the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival; the first was Yılmaz Güney's Yol in 1981. The film also received the FIPRESCI Award at the same festival.

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2. #002

   Some parts of the film's screenplay are based on Anton Chekhov's short stories Karım and İyi İnsanlar.

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3. #003

   The production was a collaboration between Nuri Bilge Ceylan's company NBC Film, Zeynofilm from Turkey, Bredok Film Production from Germany and Memento Films from France; it received 450,000 euros in support from Eurimages.

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4. #004

   Shooting took place over two months in Cappadocia during the winter, followed by four weeks at a studio in Istanbul, using a Sony F65 camera.

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5. #005

   It was claimed that an illustration of a painting by Ilya Glazunov was used on the film's poster.

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6. #006

   The film was selected as Turkey's candidate for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 87th Academy Awards.

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7. #007

   The character Aydın returns to Cappadocia after giving up acting and begins running the boutique hotel he inherited from his father; he writes columns for a local newspaper while also thinking about writing the book on theater history he has never managed to begin.

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8. #008

   Nuri Bilge Ceylan served as screenwriter and director and Ebru Ceylan as screenwriter on the production; Zeynep Ozbatur Atakan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Muzaffer Yıldırım were producers.

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