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Istanbul Film Festival 2018

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Stalker and The Last Of England
The Last Of England (Country: UK, Germany; Year: 1988; Director: Derek Jarman; Writer: Derek Jarman; Stars: Tilda Swinton, Nigel Terry, Jonathan Phillips, Spencer Leigh)
Jarman's impassioned comment on life in Thatcher's Britain.
Stalker (Country: Russia; Year: 1979; Director: Andrei Tarkovsky; Writer: Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky; Stars: Aleksandr Kajdanovsky, Alisa Fredndlikh, Anatoly Solonitsin, Nikolai Grinko, Natasha Abramova)
Sci-fi drama in which three men make a journey into the unknown in search of their deepest desire.
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The Well (Country: Turkey; Year: 1968; Director: Metin Erksan; Writer: Metin Erksan; Stars: Hayati Hamzaoğlu, Nil Göncü, Demir Karahan, Aliye Rona, Osman Alyanak, Fikret Uçak, Ahmet Kostariga)
The struggle of a woman against a man who repeatedly abducts her because she turns down his marriage proposal.
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