Precious Life (Nadide Hayat) (translated)

Çağan Irmak directed Nadide Hayat ("Precious Life"), a Turkish comedy-drama released in December 2015. Demet Akbağ stars as Nadide, opposite Yetkin Dikinciler as Captain Yusuf. It follows a woman trying to take hold of life again after a loss, balancing emotion with humor. Taff Pictures produced it and Mars Entertainment Group distributed it; from its opening on December 18, 2015 it drew roughly 784,000 viewers and about 9.4 million lira at the box office.

After her husband dies, Nadide resolves to make up for the mistakes of her youth. A newspaper item takes her first back to a school desk and then out to sea, on the deck of a ship. Irmak Örnek (Aylin), Efecan Şenolsun (Cem), Ümit Erlim (Kerim), Batuhan Begimgil (Bora) and Çisem Çancı (Ceren) play the younger people around her. Suzan Kardeş plays Nadide's friend, Ali Karagöz her late husband and Tarık Tarcan a quiz-show host.

The screenplay is credited to Çağan Irmak, Ali Demirel, Emre Özdür and Volkan Sümbül. Barış Özbiçer shot it; Timur Savcı, Ebru Hamamcıoğlu and Cemal Okan produced. Filming took place at Istanbul University and in Muğla. Its 115 minutes include a talking turtle, voiced by Büşra Pekin and Çağan Irmak, and a talking fish, voiced by Beyazıt Öztürk.