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title: "Distant: cast and crew"
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cast: 19
crew: 38
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# Distant (2002): cast and crew

19 cast and 38 crew, as credited (TMDB). Cast in billing order.

## Cast

- [Muzaffer Özdemir](https://film.one/person/muzaffer-ozdemir.md) as Mahmut
- [Mehmet Emin Toprak](https://film.one/person/mehmet-emin-toprak.md) as Yusuf
- [Zuhal Gencer](https://film.one/person/zuhal-gencer.md) as Nazan (as Zuhal Gencer Erkaya)
- [Nazan Kesal](https://film.one/person/nazan-kesal.md) as Lover (as Nazan Kırılmış)
- [Feridun Koç](https://film.one/person/feridun-koc.md) as Janitor
- [Fatma Ceylan](https://film.one/person/fatma-ceylan.md) as Mother
- [Ebru Ceylan](https://film.one/person/ebru-ceylan.md) as Woman (as Ebru Yapıcı)
- [Bahattin Serter](https://film.one/person/bahattin-serter.md)
- [Nazlı Aydın](https://film.one/person/nazl-aydn.md)
- [Engin Hepsev](https://film.one/person/engin-hepsev.md)
- [Ercan Kesal](https://film.one/person/ercan-kesal.md)
- [Aslı Orhun](https://film.one/person/asl-orhun.md)
- Ahmet Bugay
- Arif Aşçı
- Cemal Gülas
- Ahmet Özyurt
- Erhan Ersoy
- Hakan Kuldan
- [Ayhan Ergürsel](https://film.one/person/ayhan-ergursel.md)

## Directing

- [Nuri Bilge Ceylan](https://film.one/person/nuri-bilge-ceylan.md): Director
- [Feridun Koç](https://film.one/person/feridun-koc.md): First Assistant Director

## Writing

- [Nuri Bilge Ceylan](https://film.one/person/nuri-bilge-ceylan.md): Writer
- Cemil Kavukçu: Co-Writer

## Production

- [Nuri Bilge Ceylan](https://film.one/person/nuri-bilge-ceylan.md): Producer
- [Feridun Koç](https://film.one/person/feridun-koc.md): Production Manager

## Camera

- [Nuri Bilge Ceylan](https://film.one/person/nuri-bilge-ceylan.md): Director of Photography, Camera Operator
- Türksoy Gölebeyi: First Assistant Camera

## Editing

- [Nuri Bilge Ceylan](https://film.one/person/nuri-bilge-ceylan.md): Editor
- [Ayhan Ergürsel](https://film.one/person/ayhan-ergursel.md): Editor
- Adnan Şahin: Colorist

## Sound and music

- Richard Welsh: Dolby Consultant
- İsmail Karadaş: Sound
- Erkan Aktaş: Sound Mixer

## Art

- [Ebru Ceylan](https://film.one/person/ebru-ceylan.md): Art Direction

## Lighting

- Zafer Saka: Electrician

## Crew

- [Ebru Ceylan](https://film.one/person/ebru-ceylan.md): Thanks
- Emine Ceylan: Thanks
- Keriman Ulusoy: Thanks
- Zeki Demirkubuz: Thanks
- Cemal Okan: Thanks
- Arif Aşçı: Thanks
- Cemil Kavukçu: Thanks
- Reis Çelik: Thanks
- Temel Kerimoğlu: Thanks
- Sadık İncesu: Thanks
- Asiye Bodur: Thanks
- Serdar Pehlivanoğlu: Thanks
- Ahmet Çadırcı: Thanks
- Ahmet Özyurt: Thanks
- Yüksel Öztürk: Thanks
- Kadir Kubaşık: Thanks
- Hasan Kürtür: Thanks
- Necmi Aykar: Thanks
- Kamer Çelik: Thanks
- Asiye Aksoy: Thanks
- Alaettin Aksoy: Thanks
- Metin Üstündağ: Thanks

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