The Waiting Room
STORY
Ahmet is a film director, considered by others to be an idealist and as someone who lives for his principles. He considers himself to be an arrogant non-believer. Ahmet wants to adapt Dostoyevski’s Crime and Punishment to film. Feeling groundless indifference towards his film project and his lover, Serap, he lives like a hermit in his apartment. As events develop, his assistant, Elif, is doing pre-production work for the film and searching for an actor to play the novel’s protagonist, Raskolnikov.
DIRECTOR
Zeki Demirkubuz
SCRIPT
Zeki Demirkubuz
EDITING
Zeki Demirkubuz
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Zeki Demirkubuz
SOUND
Ismail Karadas
MIX
Erkan Aktas
PRODUCTION
Mavi Film
PRODUCED BY
Zeki Demirkubuz
PRODUCTION DATE, COUNTRY
2003, Turkey
NUMBER OF REELS
4
FOOTAGE
2400 m
SOUND
Dolby Digital
FILM
35 mm / Color
TIME
92 minutes
ASPECT RATIO
1.85
CAST
Nurhayat Kavrak, Zeki Demirkubuz, Nilufer Acikalin, Serdar Orcin, Ufuk Bayraktar, Eda Teksoz and Guliz Pilge
Festivals and Awards
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International Istanbul Film Festival (Turkey): Best Director
2004
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Mostra de Valencia Film Festival (Spain): FIPRESCI Award
2004
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Haifa International Film Festival (Israel)
2004
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Ghent International Film Festival (Belgium)
2004
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2004
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Chicago International Film Festival (U.S.A.)
2004
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Washington DC International Film Festival (U.S.A.)
2004
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Ljubljana International Film Festival (Slovenia)
2004
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Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Greece)
2004
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Singapore International Film Festival
2004
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Copenhagen International Film Festival (Denmark)
2004
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Brügge Cinema Novo Film Festival (Belgium)
2004
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Nürnberg International Film Festival (Germany)
2004
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Portland International Film Festival (U.S.A.)
2004
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Heidelberg International Film Festival (Germany)
2004
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2003
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2003