The Raindrop is a 2000 Turkish comedy-drama film, directed by Zeki Ökten, which chronciles the friendship of five elderly residents of Bozcaada. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on , won four awards at the 37th Antalya "Golden Orange" International Film Festival, including the Golden Orange for Best Film. It was described as, "sappy yet well narrated," by author Rekin Teksoy

Rekin Teksoy

Rekin Teksoy is a Turkish lawyer, author and translator.- Career :Teksoy taught courses in Istanbul University’s Communications Faculty on Art of Cinema and Cinema and Literature Relations for over twenty years. He served on the executive board of Turkish Cinematech Association...

. The Turkish title "güle güle" means "goodbye" said by the one who stays, not by the one who leaves.

Synopsis

This film tells the story of a circle of five friends (four men and a woman) who are longtime residents of the Aegean island Bozcaada. The group includes a good-hearted auto mechanic, a retired military officer and his wife, an emotionally volatile bachelor, and Galip, a hopeless romantic who has corresponded with a Cuban woman, Rosa, for thirty-five years. When Galip at last vows to join her in Cuba, his friends make it their mission to reunite the pair.

Cast

• Eşref Kolçak as Celal
• Zeki Alasya
  Zeki Alasya
  Zeki Alasyam is a Turkish actor and director. Alasya is of Turkish Cypriot descent and is the cousin of Kıbrıslı Mehmed Kamil Pasha....
  
   as İsmet
• Metin Akpınar
  Metin Akpinar
  Metin Akpınar is a Turkish actor. He has been one of the most successful comedians in Turkey.-Biography:He was born in Aksaray,Istanbul, and graduated from Pertevniyal high school. He pursued his university career in Faculty of Law and Literature at Istanbul.His professional career started in 1964...
  
   as Galip
• Yıldız Kenter
  Yildiz Kenter
  Yıldız Kenter is a famous Turkish actress and lecturer of English and Turkish descent. - Filmography :* Vatan İçin * Ağaçlar Ayakta Ölür * Anneler ve Kızları * Pembe Kadın...
  
   as Zarife
• Şükran Güngör as Şemsi
• Yüksel Aksu
• Ayşegül Aldinç
  Aysegül Aldinç
  Ayşegül Aldinç is a Turkish singer and actress. Her father was the well-known journalist and sports commentator Orhan Aldinç....
  
  
• Haluk Bilginer
  Haluk Bilginer
  Haluk Bilginer is a Turkish actor. In addition to his acting career in Turkey, he has also worked in the United Kingdom and remains best known for his role as Mehmet Osman in the television soap opera EastEnders during the 1980s. He has also starred in Hollywood movies as a minor actor...
  
  
• Kaan Çakır as Dilaver
• Ece Uslu
• Serra Yılmaz

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