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