Journey to the Sun

(1999)

★ 5.9 IMDb · 29 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1999

Runtime: 109 мин

Country: Turkey, Germany

Director: Yeşim Ustaoğlu

Cast: Nazmi Kırık, Newroz Baz, Mizgin Kapazan, Ara Güler, Lucia Marano

Plot

Mehmet, a young Turkish man newly migrated from Tire, takes a job searching for water leaks below the surface of the streets of Istanbul. Due to a strange set of events, he is mistaken for a Kurd, imprisoned, and brutally beaten. Upon his release, he becomes an outcast marked as a Kurd.