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SILENCED TREE

CEVIZ AGACI

By Faysal SOYSAL

BALKON FILM - as PROD / FIN

Drama - Completed 2020

A short while after his dominant wife abandons the wimpy and meek Hayati who is a literary teacher in a patriarchal town, the police find an unrecognized female corpse by the lake.Hayati wants to state that the body belongs to his wife and to take the blame for the murder that someone else committed

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Drama, Family, Second film
- Countries
- TURKEY, IRAN
- Languages
- TURKISH
- Budget
- 1 - 3 M$
- Duration
- 118 mn
- Director(s)
- Faysal SOYSAL
- Cast
- Serdar ORÇIN, Sezin AKBASOGULLARI , Ali Mert YAVUZCAN, Kübra KIP, Şebnem DİLLİGİL, Rıza AKIN
- Producer(s)
- Faysal SOYSAL (BALKON FILM)
- Synopsis
- Hayati is a writer whose talent is getting shattered as well his married life. He is deeply obsessed with reviving a dried walnut tree in his father’s house. The more he tries to dig into his father’s past and death, the more confused and lost he gets. Finding out about his wife having an affair is a terrible blow to him but his seemingly weak character does not allow him to react the way society wants him to do. While struggling to get rid of his hell like life, he meets his best friend’s fiancée who looks so much like his own ex-girlfriend. This meeting brings his memories back to life and he starts writing. Surprisingly the walnut tree starts budding as well. Right at the time hope flares up inside him, his mother dies and his wife runs with her lover. He can no longer take it and leaves the town. A couple of days later police finds a burnt body of a woman. Hayati gets arrested and accused of murder. Though he is innocent, he accepts the accusation.