The Heavy Burden

Sep 17, 2019

0h 17m

★ 0.0

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.

Genres

Drama

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Cast

Manager

Nazmi Kırık

Jiro

Mehmet Ali Arpa

Engin Emre Değer

Atiye Özdil

Adle Gündüz

Burhan Uçkan

Sait Alatay

Yusuf Bakis

Salih

Saman Mustefa

Avdel

Adil Abdulrahman

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