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In Darkness is a film of genre Drama directed by Çağan Irmak with Meral Çetinkaya
In Darkness (2009)
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Add to a movie listIn Darkness (Turkish: Karanlıktakiler) is a 2009 Turkish drama film written and directed by Çağan Irmak.
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Egemen is an advertising agency clerk in his thirties who has to share a roof with his mentally ill mother, Gülseren. Having to endure his mother’s anxieties and mental black outs, his only outlet is his workplace; where he feels he can breathe and escape the hell that is his home, even if it is for a little while. But Egemen’s amorous interest in his boss Umay unveils little by little just how much Gulseren has emotionally damaged her son.Actors
Meral Çetinkaya
(Gülseren)
Derya Alabora
(Umay)
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