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MOVIE · 2018

The Wild Pear Tree

Drama188 min

Fresh out of university, a young man returns to his Turkish home village determined to scrape together the money to publish his first book. Dogu Demirkol is the aspiring writer, reconnecting with old friends and the place he left behind while his uncertainty about the future colors nearly every encounter. At home, Murat Cemcir’s father, a schoolteacher with a gambling addiction, turns family life into another source of pressure. As money problems, buried resentments, and the pull of home close in, the dream of becoming a writer starts to collide with the obligations and disappointments waiting for him there.

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