Can

7.0 (12 votes)• 2012• 106m•Released

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Loving Istanbul couple Ayşe and Cemal need only a child to complete their life together, but they cannot conceive. To salvage Cemal’s pride, they resort to illegal means to procure a baby. This wild grab at a more perfect life proves their undoing, leading the couple to spiral toward separate futures. The couple's estrangement is intertwined with the film’s parallel narrative, in which a distant and neglectful single mom is raising her little boy, Can.

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Production Details

Languages: Turkish

Director: Raşit Çelikezer

Starring Cast: Selen Uçer, Serdar Orçin, Berkan Demirbağ, Erkan Avcı, Erdal Cindoruk, Cengiz Bozkurt

Cast

Selen Uçer

Ayşe

Serdar Orçin

Cemal

Berkan Demirbağ

Can

Erkan Avcı

Ali

Erdal Cindoruk

Mehmet Usta

Cengiz Bozkurt

Fevzi

İdil Yener

Mükerrem

Zeynep Yalçın

Serap

Sait Genay

Yaşlı Adam

Serhat Nalbantoğlu

İsmail

Kürşat Alnıaçık

Doktor

Nisa Melis Telli

Merve

Güray Görkem

Sait

Cem Baza

2. Doktor

Özgür Düşmez

Komiser

Havva Seziş

Temizlikçi Kadın

Aynur Alp

Temizlikçi Kadın

Dilek Genç

Temizlikçi Kadın

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