Starring: Nihal G. Koldas, Begüm Akkaya, Vedat Erincin, Murathan Muslu
Director: Umat Dag
Running Time: 93 mins
Certificate: 12A
Release Date: August 16th 2013

Ayse is young woman living in a small village in Turkey whose family has decided to marry her off to the handsome Hasan. However the arrangement is actually a way to get around polygamy laws, as Ayse is really going to move to Austria and become the second wife of Hasan’s father. Ayse is welcomed into the family by first wife Fatma, who has cancer and sees this new woman as the way her family will continue if the worst happens. Perhaps unsurprisingly some of the children, who’ve all grown up in the west, are unimpressed by this ‘bumpkin’ interloper. [Read more…]