Vizontele

Vizontele
Theatrical Release Poster
Directed by
Written byYılmaz Erdoğan
Produced byBaran Bolat
Starring
CinematographyÖmer Faruk Sorak
Edited byMustafa Preşeva
Music byKardeş Türküler
Production
companies
Beşiktaş Kültür Merkezi
Bocek Yapim
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release date
  • 2 February 2001 (2001-02-02) (Turkey)
Running time
110 mins
CountryTurkey
LanguageTurkish

Vizontele is a 2001 Turkish comedy-drama film, written and directed by Yılmaz Erdoğan and co-directed by Ömer Faruk Sorak, based on the writer-director's childhood memories of the arrival of the first television to his village in the early 1970s. The film, which went on nationwide release on February 2, 2001, won three Golden Orange awards and was one of the most successful Turkish films to that date. A sequel, entitled Vizontele Tuuba, involving the director and most of the original cast followed in 2004.