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'A simple lay member of a dervish order in Istanbul is selected on the basis of his piety to be the order's rent collector. With his transformation from a lowly mercantile servant to a mobile phone-toting businessman, Muharrem's simple and routine ascetic life takes on the complexity of dealing with dilemmas and temptations arising at the intersection of religion and economic interests. Turkey epitomises the intersection of Islam and the secular, and perhaps only here could a director claim, as Özer Kiziltan does, to be an atheist and yet make a deeply poetic and humanitarian film about the clash between the conscience of a simple, religious man and the administration of one of the world's great spiritual sects.' Anne Démy-Geroe, Brisbane International Film Festival

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