Original Name: Tatil Kitabi
English Name: Summer Book
Director: Seyfi Teoman
Script: Seyfi Teoman
Director of Photography: Arnau Valls Colomer
Art Director: Nadide Argun
Sound: Ismail Karadas
Editor: Çiçek Kahraman
Cast:
Taner Birsel (Hasan), Tayfun Günay (Ali), Harun Özüağ (Veysel), Ayten Tökün (Güler), Osman İnan (Osman), Rıza Akın (ambulance driver), Onurcan Alavi (Ibrahim), Zafer İnan (Zafer), Mahir Özel (sergeant), Ekrem Şenel (Ahmet), Ali Lütfi Uğur (Mehmet), Burcu Şanlı (woman at the beach)
Shooting Dates: 1st-21st of October, 2007
Shooting Locations: Silifke (Mersin, Turkey) and Urgup (Nevsehir, Turkey)
Theatrical Release: Turkey, 25th of April, 2008 (Bir Film)
Producer: Yamac Okur, Nadir Öperli
Executive Producer: Mehmet Betil, Töre Karahan
Production Company: Bulut Film
World Sales: Bulut Film
Address: Bogazici University Mithat Alam Film Center, Guney Kampus, Bebek, Istanbul, Turkey
Tel: +90 212 287 70 76-86 Fax: 90 212 287 70 68
This project had been supported by Rotterdam International Film Festivali Hubert Bals Fund ‘Script and Project Development Grant’ (2005)
Plot:
Mustafa is a hard-working and ambitious agricultural merchant who is cold and austere towards his family.One day he has a brain hemorrhage on a business trip and goes into a coma after the operation. Güler, who has been suspecting that her husband is having an affair, is now convinced of it. Veysel, their teenage son,wants to leave the military academy and start a civilian life of his own. Ali, their 10 year old son, has to cope both with his bully classmates and the chewing gums he has to sell. Hasan, Mustafa’s brother, chose to live a life in solitude after divorcing his wife and has always been an outsider to the family. But now he finds himself involved in his brother’s family after his brother goes into a coma. Hasan has to solve the mystery about his brother’s mistress and the money lost during his trip.
DOCUMENTS RELATED TO SUMMER BOOK
Information (pdf)
Synopsis (pdf)
Director's Statement (pdf)
Trailer (MOV, low), 4MB
Trailer (MOV, high), 20MB