The Heavy Burden (2019)
• September 17th, 2019 • 0h 17min
Drama
Overview
AVDEL feeds his family with the salary of his old donkey, BOZO, who works in the waste department of the city of Mardin in Turkey. It is also home to his nephew, SALIH, who fled Syria because of the war. After BOZO’s “retirement”, Avdel must find a younger ass to continue to earn his salary. So traumatized by the war Salih returns to Syria to recover his.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Blackboards
Released on: 2000-09-01
Drama, History, War
Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and ...
The Girl with the Red Scarf
Released on: 1977-11-18
Drama, Romance
Asya, a peasant girl, marries İlyas, a truck driver. The couple, who love each other very much, are ...
Head-On
Released on: 2004-03-11
Drama, Romance
With the intention to break free from the strict familial restrictions, a suicidal young woman sets ...
Steam: The Turkish Bath
Released on: 1997-05-09
Drama
Francesco and Marta run a husband-and-wife design company in Rome. When Francesco's aunt dies in Ist...
Bliss
Released on: 2007-03-16
Drama
A young woman of about 17 years old, named Meryem (Ozgu Namal), has been raped, and her village's cu...
The Impeccables
Released on: 2014-01-03
Drama
Two sisters in their early thirties find themselves isolated in the Aegean summer cottage of their c...
Welcome
Released on: 2009-03-11
Drama, Romance
Bilal is 17 years old, a Kurdish boy from Iraq. He sets off on an adventure-filled journey across Eu...
Zorba the Greek
Released on: 1964-12-14
Drama
An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever ...
Only You
Released on: 2014-03-14
Action, Drama, Romance
The passionate love between a former boxer and a beautiful blind woman.
Gallipoli
Released on: 1981-08-13
War, History, Drama
Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipo...
Autumn
Released on: 2008-08-07
Drama
Arrested while a student in university, Yusuf is released from prison after ten years. He returns ho...
120
Released on: 2008-02-15
History, Drama, War
During the Sarikamis Battle, the Ottoman army runs out of ammunition and appeals to the people of Va...
Midnight Express
Released on: 1978-08-31
Drama, Crime
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make a...
Times and Winds
Released on: 2006-09-29
Drama
In a small, poor village leaning over high rocky mountains, the villagers are simple and diligent pe...
Au Hasard Balthazar
Released on: 1966-05-25
Drama
The story of a donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but al...
7 Angels
Released on:
Drama, Thriller
On 15 July 2016, a faction within the Turkish Armed Forces, organized as the Peace at Home Council, ...
Ararat
Released on: 2002-05-20
Drama, War, History
Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making o...
Giant
Released on: 1956-11-08
Drama, Western
Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful yo...
The Lark Farm
Released on: 2007-05-04
History, Drama
The Lark Farm is set in a small Turkish town in 1915. It deals with the genocide of Armenians, looki...
The Edge of Heaven
Released on: 2007-09-27
Drama
The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a pros...