CMES Cinema: Winter Sleep

Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey) 2014
A hotel owner and landlord in a remote Turkish village deals with conflicts within his family and a tenant behind on his rent. Winter Sleep, directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, is adapted from the short story “The Wife” by Anton Chekhov and one subplot of The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The story is set in Anatolia and examines the significant divide between rich and poor as well as the powerful and the powerless in Turkey.