Making of documentary of Kasaba is an interesting footage showing how you can shoot a feature with just a focus puller. Yes, the whole crew consist of two people only. Ceylan himself and a focus puller. And that is 35mm pelicule times and black and white Kodak film. Turkish with optional English subtitles.
Based on a novel of Segio Atzeni. By a lot of interviews, usualy contradictory, it discovers the many lifes of Tullio Saba, a Sardinian miner, thief, singer, union organizer, rebel.
Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, two of England's most important World War I poets are sent, along with other traumatized combatants, to a rest home in order to treat their emotional troubles, caused by the psychological fatigue that suffer the soldiers fighting in the no man's land.
Azam, who is convicted on charges of robbery is finally released after serving a 17-year sentence. With hopes of starting life anew, he hopes to reconcile with his family.