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Toll Booth (film)
''Toll Booth'' ( tr, Gişe Memuru) is a 2010 Turkish drama film directed by Tolga Karaçelik, which tells the story of a reclusive toll-booth attendant. The film was selected for the 47th Antalya "Golden Orange" International Film Festival. Production The film's writer-director took his inspiration from the Bosphorus Bridge Toll road, toll booth attendants, who had always intrigued him, performing the same work, day after day. Karaçelik said that one day he decided "to be cute," and told the attendant, "kolay gelsin!" (May it come easy). "He looked so bad at me," continued director, "I could not forget it." "The European Union does not even sell tomatoes which grow near the highway, but these [toll booth attendants] live their lives there." He wrote a letter to the union of toll booth workers, Yapıyol Sen. "Actually I wrote a poem, and all my friends made fun of me," he said, but the union quickly answered, providing the name and number of a contact. He conducted interviews wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tolga Karaçelik
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