- The original footage of the film reached 200 hours, and the first cut was 4 hours and 30 minutes. It took Ceylon great effort to finally reduce its duration to 3 hours and 15 minutes.
- The film won the Palme d'Or in Cannes in 2014, but was eliminated in the first round of the journey to declare the best foreign language film Oscar on behalf of Turkey.
- The second Turkish film in history to win the highest award in Cannes, the previous one was "Freedom Road" in 1982. 2014 coincides with the centenary of the birth of Turkish cinema.
- "Winter Sleep" is the longest film ever to win Palme d'Or in Cannes.
- Haluk Bilginer, who plays the leading actor, has refused the invitation of Ceylon three times because the busy stage performance schedule made him unable to get away. But Ceylon insisted on using this actor and only started filming when he was free.
- The design elements of the hand-painted poster of the movie come from the cover painted by the painter I. Glazunov for Dostoevsky's first novel "Nedochka Netsvanova". This painting can be seen in Nihal's bedroom in the film.
- The protagonist's name "Aydin" has the meaning of "intellectual" in Turkish.
- There was a scene of torturous horses in the film, which brought the director Ceylon to legal prosecution.
Winter Sleep behind the scenes gags
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Extended Reading
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Avis 2022-04-24 07:01:16
A film that is difficult to rate. It is different from the previous films in Ceylon. I watched it several times in the middle. . . I don't even know what I saw in the end
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Collin 2022-03-21 09:02:29
9.5, looks good! ! Dull but not boring, he slowly used the dialogue to lay out a situation where intellectuals could not be ashamed, and recovered from introspection. The fly in the ointment is the structure of the intellectual-centered drama, and the non-centered realism is omitted when trying to create a dilemma. Introspection under false premise is destined to be incomplete //Review in 2018, maintain the original judgment
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Necla: Philanthropy isn't tossing a bone to a hungry dog, it's sharing when you are just as hungry.
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Aydin: Justice doesn't even exist in nature, why should it exist here?