The Long Way Home
2013 · 112 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 737 VOTES · DIR. Alphan Eşeli
Overview
Inhospitable at the best of times, the snow-covered mountainscapes of Eastern Anatolia constituted a fatal frontier for many war exiles after the battle of Sarikamish in 1915, and provides a canvas laced with beauty and threat for this bone-chilling survival yarn, the superb debut feature of Alphan Eşeli. Starting out with three characters – a refugee mother and daughter and their grizzled guide – the film traces their daunting trek across this barren terrain to safety, with the Russians encroaching and other stragglers, including a pair of wounded, frostbitten Ottoman soldiers, all orbiting the same burnt-out village they find in their path. Puncturing its aura of ghostly impasse with some shocking narrative reversals, and constantly prickling with the mutual dread of strangers in gruelling extremes, the movie stakes out hugely credible ground next to established Eastern Front war classics (In the Fog, Come and See) while remaining thoroughly its own beast. (Source: LFF programme)
Dialogue Timeline — 322 lines
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00:00:33 Having entered World Warl alongside Germany...
00:03:21 Come on boy! A bit harder!
00:07:19 Definitely. Your husband Sýtký Bey has contacted...
00:17:23 - Nihan! - I'm here.
00:23:02 I'm Ali, the shepherd.
00:23:51 The fighting went on until morning. It took quite a while.
00:29:34 Thank you, dear.
00:33:15 What is that?
00:34:54 They definitely will. We are in war in Ottoman territory.
00:41:08 We're in Russian territory now.
00:41:54 Gül haným, do you not understand? We can't just leave. We need to prepare.
00:43:20 ...before I arrived in the front.
00:45:13 But in the frigid frost..
00:53:07 I can't, sir. I've lost all strength.
00:58:25 Let's wait one more day. Let's make sure we have all we need.
01:01:02 You can't get out of here alive.
01:09:39 Run away!
01:13:04 I'll go and get the sledge and the supplies.
01:15:22 Come on!
01:25:44 Sister...
01:34:40 You've grown up to be a man.
01:37:18 I talked to my brother...
01:41:34 Are you married, brother? You have kids?