''Times and Winds '' or ( tr, Beş Vakit) is a
2006 Turkish drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...
directed and written by
Reha Erdem
Reha Erdem (born 1960 in Istanbul) is a Turkish film director and screenwriter.
Biography
He attended Galatasaray High School and studied history at Boğaziçi University before leaving to study film in 1983. He obtained a B.A. in Cinema Studi ...
. The film premiered in the United States on January 11, 2008. It won the Best Turkish Film of the Year Award at the
Istanbul International Film Festival
The Istanbul Film Festival ( tr, İstanbul Film Festivali) is the first and oldest international film festival in Turkey, organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts. It is held every year in April in movie theaters in Istanbul, Tu ...
.
Plot
In a small village in the mountains overlooking the sea the people struggle to survive on a daily basis. Their lives, like those of their ancestors, follow the rhythms of the earth, air and water, of day and night and the seasons, with days divided into five parts by the call to prayer. Childhood is difficult and a father typically has a preference of one son over the other. Ömer, the son of the Imam, is such a victim of his father's dislike and he wishes for the death of his father. When his wish is not granted he begins to look for ways to kill him as a twelve-year-old boy might think of with his friend Yakup. Yakup seeing his father sexually interested in his teacher also develops a hatred of his father in the same way and as the children grow up they are riddled between guilt and love and hate for their fathers.
Cast
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Taner Birsel
Taner Birsel (born 1959) is a Turkish film actor. He has appeared in twelve films since 1995. He starred in '' The Confession'', which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival
The 55th Cannes Film Festival ...
as Zekeriya
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Nihan Aslı Elmas as Yıldız's Mother
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Köksal Engür
İsmail Köksal Engür (5 March 1946 – 26 March 2023) was a Turkish actor and voice actor, whose career spanned over six decades.
Life and career
Born in Kars, Engür started his career as a child actor in 1956, and got his first personal suc ...
as Halil Dayi
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Sevinç Erbulak as Yakup's Mother
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Selma Ergeç
Selma Sabine Ergeç (; born 1 November 1978) is a Turkish-German actress, beauty pageant titleholder, model, designer, philologist, psychologist and doctor. She is known for her performance in ''Asi'', ''Vatanım Sensin, Yaşamayanlar'' and '' ...
as The Teacher
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Elit İşcan as Yıldız
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Ali Bey Kayalı as Yakup
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Yiğit Özşener
Yiğit Özşener ( born 6 April 1972) is a Turkish actor.
Biography
His family originates on paternal side from Turkish immigrants in Kavala (Ottoman Empire, now in Greece), and on maternal side from Turkish immigrants in Skopje, Macedonia. ...
as Yusuf
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Tilbe Saran as Ömer's Mother
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Tarık Sönmez
Tariq ( ar, طارق) is an Arabic word and given name.
Etymology
The word is derived from the Arabic verb , ('), meaning "to strike", and into the agentive conjugated doer form , ('), meaning "striker". It became popular as a name after Tariq ...
as Shepherd Davut
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Cüneyt Türel Cüneyt () is the Turkish spelling of Arabic masculine given name Junayd (Arabic: جُنَيْد ''junayd'') meaning "soldier, warrior".
People named Cüneyt include:
* Cüneyt Arkın, Turkish film actor
* Cüneyt Bey of Aydın, Turkish bey
* ...
as Grandfather
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Bülent Yarar
Bülent is a Turkish masculine given name and a family name meaning "tall" and "high", from Persian ''boland'' ( fa, بلند) which means ''tall'' or ''high''. The equivalent form in Azeri is Bülənd. It may refer to:
Bülend
*Bulend Biščev ...
as Imam
External links
Official site*
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Turkish drama films
2006 films
2000s Turkish-language films
2006 drama films
Best Picture Golden Boll Award winners
Films set in Turkey
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