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Mothers and Mommies (Analar ve Anneler)

Mothers and Mommies (Analar ve Anneler) (translated)

TV Series · 2015 · 16 people

Ay Yapım made the Turkish television series Analar ve Anneler, whose first episode reached atv screens on October 22, 2015. A family drama, it is built around the births experienced by young mothers and the question of whom a baby belongs to years later. Mehmet Ada Öztekin directed, Berkun Oya wrote the screenplay, and Kerem Çatay and Yamaç Okur produced it.

The story opens in the early 1970s. Hazar Ergüçlü plays Kader, who lives in a small Anatolian village, and Sinem Kobal plays Zeliha, a married young woman studying at university in Istanbul. When the two women's paths cross, what follows changes both lives for good. The cast also includes Okan Yalabık (Commissioner Ayhan), Binnur Kaya (Nurse Neriman), Erhan Alpay (İbrahim), Burak Tamdoğan (Salih Ağa), Metin Akdülger, Ulaş Tuna Astepe, Boran Kuzum and Tansu Biçer; Nazan Kesal plays Muazzez.

Serkan Güleç was the cinematographer, Toygar Işıklı the composer and Oya Köseoğlu the art director. The world of the 1970s and nostalgia are among its notable themes. Failing to reach the expected ratings, the series ended early with its ninth episode on December 24, 2015; it was also announced for broadcast in Serbia.

DirectorMehmet Ada Öztekin
Production companyAy Yapım
NetworkATV

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Yeşilçam Nostalgic A viewer raised on the classics, looking for warm storytelling and strong acting.

A story set in the early seventies, music by Toygar Işıklı and writing by Nazan Kesal and Berkun Oya: the ingredients of Analar ve Anneler seem chosen for a heart that loves nostalgia. The crossing paths of Kader, who lives in a village, and Zeliha, a student in Istanbul, recall the two-women, two-worlds design of the old films. And the question of whom a baby belongs to is one of melodrama's oldest. Sadly the series ended early with its ninth episode, and seeing such a carefully built period world cut short leaves a bittersweet ache.

History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

Analar ve Anneler reads early-1970s Turkey through the distance between village and big city. Kader, living in a small Anatolian village, and Zeliha, a married university student in Istanbul, stand for two different lives open to women of the period: one within the limits of a traditional setting, the other on the threshold of the new possibilities education brings. Even the title's split between the older word “ana” and the urban “anne” for mother seems to point at this duality. The question of whom a baby belongs to revives the old debate between blood ties and the labor of motherhood, while figures like the commissioner, the nurse and the ağa round out the order of the time. Ending early after nine episodes, it never gets the chance to fully open up this ambitious frame.

Series Binger A series devotee tracking character arcs, cast chemistry and season pacing.

Analar ve Anneler is one of those series that ends before it really warms up. Nine episodes is barely enough time to establish a character arc. Hazar Ergüçlü alongside Sinem Kobal, Okan Yalabık's Commissioner Ayhan and Binnur Kaya's Nurse Neriman promise strong cast chemistry, and Ay Yapım's care is evident. But a long-burning question like whom a baby belongs to struggles to fit into such a short run. Anyone starting it today should expect a brief nine-episode journey, not a long marathon.

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