Away from Home

5.1 (7 votes)• 2001• 110m•Released

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After several years of numbly mourning his parents death, 26 year old Selim takes a chance on the US lottery for passports and wins. He decides to sell the family olive grove to raise enough money to live in Manhattan and to break all roots to Turkey, leaving his girlfriend behind. When Selim's aged grand uncle, Nasuhi returns from Russia after 58 years he asks Selim to visit with him the olive grove of his youth. Before they depart, Nasuhi finds a beaten Russian girl, Olga who was robbed when she tried to sell herself to raise money to continue her own search for her sea faring father.

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Production Details

Languages: Turkish

Director: Semih Kaplanoğlu

Starring Cast: Erol Keskin, Tolga Çevik, Anna Bielska, Özgür Onan, Şükran Güngör, Cüneyt Türel

Cast

Erol Keskin

Nasuhi

Tolga Çevik

Selim

Anna Bielska

Olga

Özgür Onan

Kaan

Şükran Güngör

Cüneyt Türel

Saltuk Kaplangı

Devrim Parscan

Yalçın Akçay

Eylem Yıldız

Melike

Özlem Çınar

Ferdag

Yiğit Özşener

Murat

Süreyya Güzel

Güzin

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