Mud
Cast
Engin Alkan 
Taner Birsel 
Murat Garipagaoglu Tomris Incer Serafettin Kaya 
Yelda Reynaud
Credits
Written by: 
Dervis Zaim
Music: 
Michael Galasso Koulis Theodorou
Plot
Four 40-something friends are haunted by the violent past of a divided Cyprus. Temel wants desperately to speak about the crimes of vengeance he committed as a teenager. He would like to confess about the bodies buried in the muddy patch of a dried-up salt lake, but fear holds him back from even going there. Ali participates in Temel's UN projects aimed at defusing tension between Cyprus' Greek and Turkish communities....
Sinekatalog’s take
Derviş Zaim's film, set in Cyprus, was awarded the UNESCO prize at Venice for its look at division and landscape. Spare and austere, it was shown abroad more than at home and is considered a weaker entry in his filmography.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 5.3 / 10 (591 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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