A family dinner so awkward you'll thank your own relatives for being boring.
Celal Tan is a well-respected constitutional law professor who lives in a provincial city has two children from his first marriage. Many years after the death of his first wife, he married a woman much younger than him, a university student, whose life he has saved in some way. In the third year of their marriage, the extremely tragic story of Celal Tan and his family begins after a big crisis happened in front of the whole family. While trying to hide the secret, the family falls into absurd and tragicomic positions. Regardless of all happenings, Celal Tan tries to keep the family together.
Acting
Selçuk Yöntem's unraveling dignity is masterclass cringe.
Writing
Dialogue so sharp you'll wince at your own relatives.
Direction
Onur Ünlü balances tragedy and satire like a knife's edge.
Director
Onur Ünlü
Selçuk Yöntem
Celal Tan
Ezgi Mola
Jülide
Bülent Emin Yarar
Ergün
Güler Ökten
Kamuran Hanim
Tansu Biçer
Kamuran Tan
Türkü Turan
Özge
Cengiz Bozkurt
Komiser Hakkı
Köksal Engür
Turan Altayli
Alpay Şayhan
Ege
Ushan Çakır
Okan 2
Gazanfer Ündüz
Rektör
Yılmaz Gruda
Nida Bey
Engin Hepileri
Komiser Yardimcisi
Tuğra Kaftancıoğlu
Okan 1
Engin Alpateş
Kapici Ibrahim
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film satirizes Turkey's urban bourgeoisie intellectual class, where academic prestige masks moral rot—Ünlü's signature target across his filmography.
The dinner table becomes a stage where Turkish masculinity literally chokes on its own contradictions; Celal's constitutional law expertise means nothing against domestic chaos.
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