A dying man's last request drags his estranged son back to a village that has not forgiven him, in this quiet German-Turkish drama built around one impossible burial.
What is Nuh Tepesi about?
Omer, a man already worn down by his own mid-life crisis, is called back to the village he left behind when his estranged father's health finally gives out. The father's final wish is specific and, to the people who still live there, unacceptable: he wants to be buried beneath an old tree the community reveres as sacred, a tree he insists he planted with his own hands half a century earlier. Returning to argue on his father's behalf, Omer finds a community unwilling to bend, old grievances resurfacing alongside the new one, and a son forced to fight for a claim he never fully believed in himself, caught between honoring a father he barely knew and a village that never wanted either of them back.
About the cast
Haluk Bilginer plays the father at the center of the dispute, with Ali Atay as Omer navigating the village's resistance. Mehmet Ozgur, Hande Dogandemir and Arin Kusaksizoglu fill out the supporting roles, giving the village itself a sense of collective memory and resistance rather than a single antagonist. Director Cenk Erturk keeps the focus tight on the family conflict, letting the wider village stand in as a second, quieter obstacle throughout.
Context & significance
A joint production between Germany and Turkey released in 2019, Nuh Tepesi sits firmly in the drama genre, built around inheritance, memory and the specific weight a small community places on land and legend. The sacred tree at its center functions as both a literal obstacle and a stand-in for everything left unresolved between father and son, and the film uses its rural setting to slow the pace down to something closer to real grief than plot mechanics. It rewards patience over spectacle, staying with its central family dispute rather than widening into a broader story.
Watching Nuh Tepesi on Ktime
Nuh Tepesi is available on K-Time with a free account login, part of a growing catalogue of international drama offered through an interface built for Farsi-speaking audiences. The film's dialogue plays in its original language, so viewers comfortable with Turkish or following along visually will get the fullest sense of its measured pacing and quiet performances.