Written and Directed by: Zeki Demirkubuz
Edited by: Zeki Demirkubuz
Cinematography: Zeki Demirkubuz
Sound: İsmail Karadaş
Mix: Erkan Aktaş
Cast: Nurhayat Kavrak, Zeki Demirkubuz, Nilufer Acikalin, Serdar Orcin, Ufuk Bayraktar, Eda Teksoz and Guliz Pilge
Production: Mavi Film
Produced by: Zeki Demirkubuz
Production Date: 2003, Turkey
35 mm / Color / 92 minutes / Aspect Ratio: 1.85
Number of Reels: 4
Footage: 2400 m
Sound: Dolby Digital
Distribution:
World Sales: Mavi Film (Turkey)
Festivals and Special Screenings:
Sanart Film (Europe)
info@sanartfilm.com
Moon and Stars Project (A.B.D.)
kaan@moonandstarsproject.org
Ahmet is a film director, considered by others to be an idealist and as someone who lives for his principles. He considers himself to be an arrogant non-believer. Ahmet wants to adapt Dostoyevski’s Crime and Punishment to film. Feeling groundless indifference towards his film project and his lover, Serap, he lives like a hermit in his apartment. As events develop, his assistant, Elif, is doing pre-production work for the film and searching for an actor to play the novel’s protagonist, Raskolnikov.
Festivals and Awards
2004 International Istanbul Film Festival (Turkey): Best Director
2004 Mostra de Valencia Film Festival (Spain): FIPRESCI Award
2004 Haifa International Film Festival (Israel)
2004 Ghent International Film Festival (Belgium)
2004 Viennale (Austria)
2004 Chicago International Film Festival (U.S.A.)
2004 Washington DC International Film Festival (U.S.A.)
2004 Ljubljana International Film Festival (Slovenia)
2004 Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Greece)
2004 Singapore International Film Festival
2004 Copenhagen International Film Festival (Denmark)
2004 Brügge Cinema Novo Film Festival (Belgium)
2004 Nürnberg International Film Festival (Germany)
2004 Portland International Film Festival (U.S.A.)
2004 Heidelberg International Film Festival (Germany)
2003 Orhan Murat Ariburnu Awards: Best Film, Best Actress (Nurhayat Kavrak), Best Supporting Actress (Nilufer Acikalin)
2003 Antalya Golden Organge Film Festival (Turkey): Best 3rd Film, Best Supporting Actress (Nurhayat Kavrak)
Life is Like a Waiting Room for Death. FIPRESCI, Valencia Film Festival. 2004
The Waiting Room. Mental Minefields: The Dark Tales of Zeki Demirkubuz. 2007. Review.
