The Butterfly's Dream (2013 film)

The Butterfly's Dream (2013 film)
The Butterfly's Dream is a 2013 Turkish drama film written and directed by Yılmaz Erdoğan. The film was selected as the Turkish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.
Rahman Altın, the composer of the score to the film won the "World Soundtrack Awards - Public Choice Award" at the 40th Film Fest Gent.
Plot
The movie starts in Zonguldak, in 1941. While two young poet Muzaffar Tayyip Uslu (Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ) and Rüştü Onur (Mert Fırat) continue their civil service life in this newly modernized mining city, they also live together with art, literature, and most poetry, they have a dream to become a butterfly as to fly on sky as to become a famous poet. While the young Republic, newly rising on its feet, was trying to modernize, on the one hand, World War II was experienced in Europe in the same years. In a society where poetry and art have not yet matured, these two tuberculosis young people are trying to make all segments of society love poetry. They saw a beautiful girl Suzan Özsöy (Belçim Bilgin) and they made a bet to write poetry. Whoever's she prefers, wins the bet. Suzan likes Rustu's poem but Muzaffar wins the heart of Suzan. Muzaffer falls in love with Suzan. Suzan, who is still a high school student, becomes close friends with the two young people, despite her family's disapproval. But tuberculosis, the plague of the 1940s, is increasingly threatening the health of both young people. Muzaffer and Onur both suffer from tuberculosis. Rustu becomes very ill and admits to the hospital, Where he meets a girl Mediha Sessiz (Farah Zeynep Abdullah) who was also struggling with her illness, and falls for her.
Summary
After its release in February 2013, director Yılmaz Erdoğan's feature film Kelebeğin Rüyası (The Butterfly's Dream) was also selected by Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism, Ömer Çelikas, as Turkey's candidate for the 2014's Academy Awards. The storyline, set in the early 1940s of Turkey, revolves around two good male friends, Rüştü Onur and Muzaffer Tayyip Uslu. They are members of the Garip movement. They make a living out of publishing their poems at a time when life appears hard with the World War II in its full swing across the world. The story takes a turn when both fall in love with other people and life changes for them trying to survive against social class system and religious barriers of the time, which jeopardizes their love life, their friendship and their profession.
Cast
Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ as Muzaffer Tayyip Uslu
Mert Fırat as Rüştü Onur
Belçim Bilgin as Suzan Özsoy
Farah Zeynep Abdullah as Mediha Sessiz
Yılmaz Erdoğan as Behçet Necatigil
Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan as Zikri Özsoy
Adem Atbas as Fatih
Taner Birsel as İsmail Uslu
Selman Ünlüsoy as Hasta
Mücahit Avci as Kenan
Alper Baydar as Doctor
See also
List of submissions to the 86th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
List of Turkish submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
References
External links
The Butterfly's Dream Official Website
2013 films
2013 drama films
Turkish drama films
2010s Turkish-language films
Films set in the 1940s