Directed by
Özer Kızıltan

Cast overview
Erkan Can (lead), Meray Ulgen and Guven Kirac
 
AWARDS: Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize (Panorama) at the 2007 Berlin International Film Festival.  Toronto 2006 Swarovski Cultural Innovation Award. Antalya Golden Orange 2006  Best Actor Award for Erkan Can, Best Art Direction Award, Best Cinematography Award, Best Costume Design Award, Best Music Award, Best Screenplay Award, Lab
Competition Award, Make-Up Award. 
Turkey's Official Submission to the Best Foreign Language Film Category of the 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008).

Synopsis:
Muharrem, an extremely devout Muslim man, lives a simple and modest life in the house where he grew up in the center of Istanbul. When he is thrust into the modern world with a new job, responsibilities and material temptations, his extremely devout beliefs are put to the test.
Muharrem has worked quietly as a simple clerk for over 30 years in the same traditional Istanbul neighborhood where he was born. The humble introvert lives a solitary and meager existence of prayer and sexual abstinence, adhering strictly to the most severe Islamic doctrines.
Muharrem’s extraordinary devotion attracts the attention of the leaders of a rich and powerful religious group. His acclaimed trustworthiness and conscientiousness inspire them to offer him an administrative post as rent collector for their numerous properties.

Provided with new clothes, a cell phone and a computer, Muharrem is thrown into the modern outside world he has successfully avoided for so long. His naive eyes are soon witness to conflict attitudes toward alcohol consumption and goodwill.

Muharrem has built his life around being able to distinguish between carnal and spiritual values. But the balance of his devotion is now upset. His fear of God begins to eat away at his senses…

Filmin Öyküsü:
Kendi halinde, oldukça mütevazi bir yaşam süren Muharrem, dini inançları çok kuvvetli bir insandır. Bütün bu özellikleri, çevresindeki insanlar tarafından büyük bir güvenirlik kazanmasına neden olur. Bu durum, varlıklı bir tarikat şeyhinin dikkatini çeker ve tarikatın sayısız mülkünün kiralarının toplanması için kullanmaya karar verir. Birden bire bambaşka bir dünyanın içine giriveren Muharrem için sahip olduğu değerler yavaş yavaş sarsılmaya başlar.

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