Top Cast
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Ayhan Işık
Ömer
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Zeynep Aksu
Nazlı
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Reha Yurdakul
Hayri
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Hüseyin Baradan
Kocabıyık Raşit
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Hulusi Kentmen
Doktor
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Kazım Kartal
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Mine Sun
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Mualla Sürer
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Hüseyin Zan
Hasan
Overview
The story of a group of people fleeing Bulgarian oppression and trying to return to Turkey.
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