The houses of the director and the writer are their genuine houses... The paintings are genuinely the directors' paintings... The kids are genuinely the writers' kids, the wife his wife... The workshop is genuinely the workshop of Selim and Selcuk...
Erdal Besikcioglu's footage is real. It's taken from a TV Show that Bora and Haluk shot in 2000. The show called "Uzaktan Kumanda" was canceled after having aired only one episode. It doesn't even have an IMDB listing.