THE APPRENTICE | ÇIRAK | Director: Emre Konuk[1] / Screenwriter: Emre Konuk / DOP: Gürol Beşer / Editor: Emre Konuk / Cast: Hakan Atalay, Çiğdem Şelışık Onat, Tuğrul Çetiner, Levent Öktem / Producer: Enes Erbay / Production Co.: Erbay Media And Production Co. / World Sales: Erbay Media And Production Co. / Turkey / 2015 / DCP / Colour / 86´ / Turkish; English s.t.
2015 Antalya Best Supporting Actress (Ç. Selışık Onat), Best First Feature
2015 Writers´ Union of Turkey Best Film
Alim works as a tailor´s apprentice to Yakup for the past 15 years. Obsessive and fearful of death, he is stuck in the routine of a mundane life. He opens the store in the mornings and either takes a nap or watches TV until his boss arrives. In the evenings, he goes home carpooling with Kemal from the coffeehouse. When he watches a news item on TV about the perils of cars running on LPG, he starts to check out each taxi he rides on to see whether it runs on autogas or not, each time, he marks a score. To avoid using a vehicle, he decides to move to a new apartment closer to work. This change he makes will be a vital turning point for Alim.
[1] Born: November 1, 1988 (age 27), Istanbul Province, Turkey
Movies: The Trace[*] (cinematography), The Apprentice
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