The Lamb
As Eastern Anatolian village tradition requires, 27-year-old Medine must serve oven-roasted lamb at her 5-year-old son Mert's circumcision feast. As Eastern Anatolian village tradition requires, 27-ye…
The Lamb
As Eastern Anatolian village tradition requires, 27-year-old Medine must serve oven-roasted lamb at her 5-year-old son Mert's circumcision feast. As Eastern Anatolian village tradition requires, 27-year-old Medine must serve oven-roasted lamb at her five-year-old son Mert's circumcision feast. Poor but determined, Medine puts the family to work cutting branches to earn something towards the price of the lamb they need. In a small village near Erzincan (Turkey), young Mert is about to get traditionally circumcised, but the family does not have the money to follow up with the circumcision celebration. The family wants to be able to serve lamb meat to the guests of the celebration. Mert's older sister scares him by warning him that if they cannot afford a lamb, their father will slaughter him instead. —yusufpiskin
The Lamb
Drama,Family
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As Eastern Anatolian village tradition requires, 27-year-old Medine must serve oven-roasted lamb at her 5-year-old son Mert's circumcision feast. As Eastern Anatolian village tradition requires, 27-year-old Medine must serve oven-roasted lamb at her five-year-old son Mert's circumcision feast. Poor but determined, Medine puts the family to work cutting branches to earn something towards the price of the lamb they need.
In a small village near Erzincan (Turkey), young Mert is about to get traditionally circumcised, but the family does not have the money to follow up with the circumcision celebration. The family wants to be able to serve lamb meat to the guests of the celebration. Mert's older sister scares him by warning him that if they cannot afford a lamb, their father will slaughter him instead.
—yusufpiskin.