The Yusuf Trilogy - 3-DVD Set ( Bal / Süt / Yumurta ) ( Honey / Milk / Egg )

The Yusuf Trilogy - 3-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

$48.99

Original Title: Bal / Süt / Yumurta
Alternate Title: Honey / Milk / Egg
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
European Film Awards
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Turkish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
299 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
3-DVD Set
Collectors Edition
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2007 - 2010 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Turkey ( Africa, Middle East )

Directed By:
Semih Kaplanoglu

Written By:
Semih Kaplanoglu
Orçun Köksal

Actors:
Bora Altas ..... Yusuf
Erdal Besikçioglu ..... Yakup
Tülin Özen ..... Zehra
Ayse Altay
Alev Uçarer
Özkan Akcay
Selami Gökce
Adem Kurkut
Kamil Yilmaz
Melih Selcuk ..... Yusuf
Basak Köklükaya ..... Zehra
Riza Akin ..... Ali Hoca
Saadet Aksoy ..... Semra
Alev Uçarer ..... Kemal
Serif Erol ..... Istasyon Sefi
Orçun Köksal ..... Erol
Sahra Özdag ..... Köylü Kizi
Semra Kaplanoglu ..... Postaci
Tülin Özen
Tansu Biçer
Burcu Aksoy
Nejat Isler ..... Yusuf
Saadet Aksoy ..... Ayla
Ufuk Bayraktar ..... Haluk
Tülin Özen ..... Sahaftaki Kadin
Gülçin Santircioglu ..... Gül
Kaan Karabacak ..... Çapaci Çocuk
Semra Kaplanoglu ..... Zehra

Synopsis:

Egg / Yumurta (2007): Poet Yusuf returns to his childhood hometown, which he hadn't visited for years, upon his mother's death. A young girl, Ayla awaits him in a crumbling house. Yusuf has been unaware of the existence of this distant relation who had been living with his mother for five years.

Milk / Sut (2008): Recent high school graduate Yusuf is uncertain about his future in the provincial countryside. Writing poetry is his greatest passion and some of his poems are starting to be published in obscure literary journals. But for the time being, he continues working in his single mother's village milk business, also with an uncertain future.

Honey / Bal (2010): Set in an isolated region in Northeast Turkey, Bal arrives at Yusuf's childhood when six year old Yusuf has just started primary school and is learning how to read and write. His father Yakup works as a honey-gatherer, a risky trade which involves climbing up ropes into the tops of trees where the hives are. To Yusuf, who accompanies his father to work, the forest becomes a place of mystery and adventure, and he watches his father in admiration as he works sometimes higher than the eye can see.

Honey / Bal (2010) With 'Bal' ('Honey"), the Turkish director Semih Kaplanoglu enables the lush mountain forests of Rize Province, near the Black Sea, to express what its young protagonist cannot. Yusuf (Bora Altas), an elementary-school student, struggles with a stammer; oral readings in class are such an ordeal that he remains indoors at recess. An overheard passage of Rimbaud read aloud in a classroom gives him a glimmer of the poetic eloquence he can aspire to. Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 2010 and Turkey's entry for best foreign-language film at the Oscars this year, the semi-autobiographical 'Bal" is the third in a trilogy about Yusuf. It has no musical soundtrack (and barely any dialogue), only a quiet, unforced, organic rhythm. And those spellbinding images. Like the viewer, Mr. Kaplanoglu is quite happy to let nature do the talking and cast a lyrical, mysterious spell.

Milk / Süt (2008 A high school graduate, Yusuf could not pass the university entrance exam. Writing poetry is his greatest passion and some of his poems are being printed in various obscure literary journals. But neither these poems, nor the rapidly falling price of the milk they sell, are being of any benefit to Yusuf and Zehra's lives. When Yusuf finds out about Zehra's secret affair with the town's stationmaster he gets disconcerted. Will he find the way to cope with his anxiety for the unknown future, the rapid change that he is going through and the pain of taking a step into adulthood and leaving his youth behind?

Egg / Yumurta (2007) Poet Yusuf (35-38) returns to his childhood hometown, which he hadn't visited for years, upon his mother's death. He is faced with a neglected, crumbling house. Ayla, a young girl (17-19) awaits him there. Yusuf has been unaware of the existence of this distant relation who had been living with his mother for five years; He stays by his dead mother's bedside for a while on the morning of his return. Ayla's presence alleviates the emotions evoked by death to an extent. But how will Yusuf cope with the guilt that embraces him after the funeral? Will he manage to overcome it? The maternal household's chattels, and everyday habits, the staid rhythm of the provinces and the spaces filled with ghosts&; The town he once had left to escape all this, re-enchants Yusuf. Yusuf finds out on the day he's due to return to Istanbul that he is obliged to perform the sacrifice his mother had been prevented by death from fulfilling. Ayla pressures him. Yusuf and Ayla set off for the saint's tomb, some three or four hours away, for the traditional sacrifice ceremony that his mother Zehra had pledged. Ayla is very excited about this, her first trip out of the small town. An accident is to force Yusuf to confront all that he had been trying to evade. Unable to locate the herd amongst which the sacrificial animal was to be selected, they have to spend the night in a hotel by the crater lake. While the falling snow blankets guilt, they are no longer heading back to that old town.

Egg / Yumurta (2007): Poet Yusuf returns to his childhood hometown, which he hadn't visited for years, upon his mother's death. A young girl, Ayla awaits him in a crumbling house. Yusuf has been unaware of the existence of this distant relation who had been living with his mother for five years. Ayla has something to ask of Yusuf. Yusuf is obliged to perform the sacrifice his mother Zehra had been prevented by death from fulfilling.

Milk / Sut (2008): Recent high school graduate Yusuf is uncertain about his future in the provincial countryside. Writing poetry is his greatest passion and some of his poems are starting to be published in obscure literary journals. But for the time being, he continues working in his single mother's village milk business, also with an uncertain future. Up until now, Yusuf's widowed mother Zehra has focused all her attention on her only child. Still a young and beautiful woman, Zehra is having a discreet relationship with the town station master. His mother's affair, and his being named unfit for military service due to a childhood illness, make Yusuf even more anxious about making the sudden jump toward manhood.

Honey / Bal (2010): Set in an isolated region in Northeast Turkey, Bal arrives at Yusuf's childhood when six year old Yusuf has just started primary school and is learning how to read and write. His father Yakup works as a honey-gatherer, a risky trade which involves climbing up ropes into the tops of trees where the hives are. To Yusuf, who accompanies his father to work, the forest becomes a place of mystery and adventure, and he watches his father in admiration as he works sometimes higher than the eye can see. Yusuf and his father have a very strong bond and although he is tongue-tied to the point of stuttering paralysis in social situations, he can read and speak quite clearly when he's addressing his father.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 25 October, 2011.