# The Waiting Room (2004)

> A filmmaker's abandoned Dostoyevsky adaptation becomes the bleak measure of his depression, isolation, and inability to rejoin life.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/movie/35372

## Facts

- Runtime: 92 min
- Genres: Drama
- Director: Zeki Demirkubuz
- Cast: Zeki Demirkubuz, Nurhayat Kavrak, Nilüfer Açıkalın, Serdar Orçin, Ufuk Bayraktar, Eda Teksöz, Güliz Pilge, Apo Demirkubuz
- TMDB rating: 6.2/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0446930/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: none
- Mood: melancholic, austere, introspective, quiet evening, introspective viewing

## Movies like The Waiting Room

- [Fate (2001)](https://ember.film/movie/26329)
- [Destiny (2006)](https://ember.film/movie/28908)
- [Inside (2012)](https://ember.film/movie/69018)
- [About Dry Grasses (2023)](https://ember.film/movie/469134)
- [Majority (2010)](https://ember.film/movie/37095)
- [Keman Ağıtları (2020)](https://ember.film/movie/564269)
- [The Confession (2001)](https://ember.film/movie/55786)
- [Free Slave (2019)](https://ember.film/movie/454653)
- [Innocence (1997)](https://ember.film/movie/19647)
- [Climates (2006)](https://ember.film/movie/11080)

---

Site overview: https://ember.film/llms.txt