Evvel Zaman

Back Cover Text (From the Promotional Bulletin)

“Every stage of every film also includes an inner journey that you experience simultaneously with the process, consciously or unconsciously. (…) However, the work itself becomes so prominent and everything is so subordinated to the shooting of the film that after a while you lose sight of the ‘journey’ of that work and put it out of your mind. Only after the work is finished do you realize the value of the journey. Because at the end of a finished work, all the disappointments, ups and downs, hopes, renunciations, acceptances or objections experienced throughout the journey are forgotten and cast aside as if they had never happened. But, that’s what ‘learning’ is!”
A film diary in your hands… The story of Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan and winner of the Cannes Film Festival Grand Jury Prize in 2011. From the moment it comes to mind… Or even further back: from the moment Ercan Kesal’s experiences as a young doctor in the countryside became the basis for a film idea… Ercan Kesal keeps track of the observations, thoughts, emotions that give birth to a film and accompany its formation, in short, a film experience. Within this experience, we see how the film and the script evolve like a living organism.
Not simply “behind the scenes”; it is an enthusiastic story about the course of a film, the adventure of filming, and also about Anatolia.

Dough Type: 2. Pulp

Number of Prints : 1st Edition

Year of First Print : 2018

Number of Pages : 216

Dimensions : 13 x 19.5