CAST

Aydın Doğu Demirkol (Sinan)
Murat Cemcir (İdris)
Bennu Yıldırımlar (Asuman)
Hazar Ergüçlü (Hatice)
Serkan Keskin (Local writer Süleyman)
Tamer Levent (Grandpa Recep)
Akın Aksu (Imam Veysel)
Öner Erkan (Imam Nazmi)
Ahmet Rıfat Şungar (Rıza)
Kubilay Tunçer (Sand Pit Owner İlhami)
Kadir Çermik (Mayor Adnan)
Özay Fecht (Grandma Hayriye)
Ercüment Balakoğlu (Grandpa Ramazan)
Asena Keskinci (Yasemin)
Sencar Sağdıç (Lottery ticket seller Nevzat)
Salih Ünal (Jeweler Raif)
Çağlar Can (Ekrem)
Beni Yüksel Levi (Bookseller)
Naim Tüzün (Muharrem)
Özen Kırıkkulak (Waiter)
Emre Kılcıoğlu (Laborer)
Zeki Arslan (Osman)
Mustafa Aksu (Man with the Motorcycle)
Ahmet Demircan (Sand Pit Employee)
Erdoğan Gündoğdu (Keeper of the Coffeehouse)
Burak Yurdanur (Fisherman on the Bridge)
Mahmut Taşkıran (Chasing Man)
Abdurrahman Tutar (Seydi)
Soner Beceren (Young man driving the Car)
Onur Girgin (Other young man in the Car)
Mehmet Şevik (Hunter who buys the dog)
Selin Köseoğlu (Girl in the bookshop).

FILMMAKERS

Director : Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Producer : Zeynep Özbatur Atakan
Co-producers : Alexandre Mallet-Guy (France)
                       Fabian Gasmia (Germany)
                       Stefan Kitanov (Bulgaria)
                       Labina Mitevska (Macedonia)
                       Mirsad Purivatra (Bosnia)
                       Jon Mankell (Sweden)
                       Anthony Muir (Sweden)
National Co-Producers: Müge Kolat
                                  Muzaffer Yıldırım
                                  Olivier Père
                                  Rémi Burah
                                  İbrahim Eren
                                  Nuri Bilge Ceylan
In Association with:
                     İmaj
                     Arte France Cinéma
                     Türkiye Radyo Televizyon Kurumu (TRT)
                     Doha Film Institute
                     Nu-Look Yapım
                     Kale Grubu
Supported by:
                Eurimages
                T.C. Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı Sinema Gen.Md.
                Arte France
                Medienboard Berlin-Bradenburg
                Bulgarian National Film Center
                Macedonian Film Agency
                Fondacija za Kinematografiju Sarajevo
                MPA APSA Academy Film Fund
Scriptwriters : Akın Aksu
                     Ebru Ceylan
                     Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Quotations  (in order of appearence) :
                       Yunus Emre
                       A. Chekhov
                       F. Dostoevsky
                       F. Nietzsche
                       Edebiyatın Taşradan Manifestosu
                       Polat Onat
                       I.Kant
                       Kur’an-ı Kerim
                       İbn-i Arabî
                       Hz. Muhammed
                       Şems-i Tebrîzî
                       Peyami Safa
                       Hz. Ebubekir
Director of Photography : Gökhan Tiryaki
Editor : Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Art Director :  Meral Aktan
Assistant Art Director : Billur Melis Koç
Chief Set Decorator : Erhan Alabaş
Executive Producer : Ahmet Demircan
Production Coordinator : Gönül Arslan
Casting : Erkut Emre Sungur
Sound Engineer : Andreas Mücke Niesytka
Boom Operators : Etienne Haug
                           Eser Fidan
                           Cesar Fernandez Borras
                           Emre Yalcı
                           Neşet Özdemir
Supervising Sound Editor : Thomas Robert
Dialog Editor : Linda Forsen
Re-recording Mixer : Thomas Gauder
Foley Artists : Lucas Nilsson
                     Henrik Sunnåker
                     Henric Andersson
Conforming : Emre Kocazorbaz
Color Grading : Bora Gökşingöl
VFX Supervisers : Mehmet Kurtuluş Tuncer
                           Burak Balkan
                           Arda Kutlu
                           Akça Elmas
VFX Artists : Mehmet Kurtuluş Tuncer
                   Burak Balkan
                   Kerem Ogan
3D Artists : Arda Kutlu
                  İlhan Yılmaz
                  Emir Karasakal
                  Akça Elmas
                  Emine Özçelik
1st Asistant Director : Yıldız Aşanboğa
2nd Assistant Director : Merve Yayla
Focus Puller : Serkan Gülgüler
Make up : Mojca Gorogranc Petrushevska
Senior make up artist : Goran Ignjatovski
Hair : Emre Ölmez
DIT & LTO Recording : Can Altun
Gaffer : Durmuş Demirezen
            Arif Kanber
Grip : Erdoğan Gündoğdu
Key Grip : Emre Kılcıoğlu
Making-of shootings : Morteza Atabaki
Post Production Supervisors : Bora Suel
                                           Sinan Kesova
Transcoding : Gökhan Görmez
Technical Consultant : Hakan Toptaş
DCP Mastering : Hakan Toptaş
Music : J.S.Bach,
           Passacaglia in C minor, BWV 582
           Arranged by Leopold Stokowski