Ayla: The Daughter of War | |
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Directed by | Can Ulkay |
Written by | Yigit Güralp |
Produced by | Caglar Ercan Christopher H.K. Lee Evrim Sanal Ayse Ilker Turgut Mustafa Uslu |
Starring |
Çetin Tekindor İsmail Hacıoğlu Kim Seol Ali Atay Damla Sönmez Murat Yıldırım |
Music by | Fahir Atakoglu |
Production company | Dijital Sanatlar Production |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 124 minutes |
Countries | Turkey South Korea |
Languages | Turkish Korean English |
Box office | $16.2 million [1] [2] |
Ayla: The Daughter of War ( Turkish: Ayla, Korean: 아일라) is a 2017 South Korean-Turkish drama film directed by Can Ulkay. It was selected as the Turkish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. [3] [4]
Turkey sends a brigade to South Korea as a result of the call for help made by the United Nations when North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950. Sergeant Süleyman, one of the soldiers in the brigade, finds a little girl whose mother and father were murdered on the battlefield. Sergeant Süleyman gives her the nickname Ayla because he found her in the moonlight. The two form a friendship despite the language barrier between them, but are torn apart when Süleyman had to return home. [5] [6]
Ayla is based on the true story of Kim Eun-ja and Süleyman Dilbirliği, whose real-life reunion was shown in the 2010 Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation documentary Kore Ayla directed by Chuncheon MBC . [3] [7] [8] In casting held in South Korea in 2016, child actress Kim Seol, who had previously played the role of Jin-ju in the popular South Korean television series Reply 1988, was chosen for the role of young Ayla. [8] Ko Eun-min played the role of young Ayla's mother. [9]
Filming began in 2016. [10] The film was sponsored by Turkish Airlines, with support from Turkey's Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Most of the filming was carried out in Turkey. [3] [5] Filming in Turkey was completed in June 2017. [9] The first screening of the movie was held on 11 September 2017 within the scope of the Toronto International Film Festival.[ citation needed] The film was released on 27 October 2017 in Turkey and 21 June 2018 in South Korea. [11]