Memduh Ün

Turkey in the 1960s and 1970s was one of the biggest producers of film in the world. In order to keep up with the demand, screenwriters and directors were copying scripts and remaking movies from all over the world. This documentary visits the fastest working directors, the most practical cameramen and the most hardheaded actors to have a closer look into the country's tumultuous history of movie making.

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Laborers of the film industry have decided to march against the new censorship act in 1977. 60 years of silence in cinema was going to be interrupted for good. From actor/actresses to set workers, 400 women and men have started a 5-day-long walk to Ankara. A walk that was conceived with supportive but surprised looks of the public. The documentary tries to picture this forgotten but historical event in the light of the 100th year of cinema.

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A young boy and a director of a movie theater bond over their love of cinema during the trying times of 1950's Turkey.

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A dwarf and a transvestite, both are excluded from the society and doomed to exist at night. Their lives overlap in a strange encounter and this becomes the start of their friendship.

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Newly divorced Nilgün, a doctor from Istanbul, is sent to a remote small town to practice; where she meets up with long lost friend Havva while treating local prostitutes.

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The film tells the story of a mother who has lost her child. After losing her husband in a traffic accident, Güzin is left alone with her physically and mentally disabled son Sedat. She spends a long time looking for a caregiver to look after Sedat. All the caregivers she finds refuse to work because Sedat is disabled. Güzin locks Sedat in his room and leaves him alone at home while she goes to work. However, one day when she is called to the hospital for an emergency, she forgets to lock the door. When she returns, she finds her son’s lifeless body. All investigations determine that the death was the result of negligence. Therefore, Güzin is found guilty. However, Güzin, who does not believe the verdict, begins searching for her son’s killer.

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The film tells the story of two police officers' fight against a drug gang. Cemil is one of the successful commissioners of the public order department. All important operations bear the signatures of his assistant Faruk and Cemil. Although he loves his job, he is counting down the days until retirement. This will allow him to spend as much time as he wants with his wife and three children. When an old acquaintance enters his life, he will have to make a change to his plans. Tahir Kara is a chemist who has been working with the drug cartel for some time. The mafia responds to his decision to return to an honest life by killing his daughter. The case is assigned to his old friend, Commissioner Cemil. However, Tahir, who wants to protect his other daughter, is forced to keep the police out of the matter.

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Kemal is a young man who does all kinds of work to make ends meet and is passionate about football. The young man who makes his living from the hardest, one day finds a baby abandoned on the side of the road. Kemal, who adopted the orphaned baby, raises and takes care of the girl like the baby's father.

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Tahsin is a respected police officer who lives a happy life with his wife and daughter Gamze. Despite earning little money and struggling to make ends meet, this does not hinder his happiness or his love for his job. He will retire soon. His assistant Aydın, who is as successful a police officer as he is, has a romantic relationship with Gamze. One day, the experienced commissioner finds himself pursuing drug dealers on orders from his superiors. Tahir, the leader of the drug gang Tahsin had previously arrested, devises a revenge plan with his associate Naci. Naci makes Gamze fall in love with him. He takes her to a house under the pretext of introducing her to his mother. The woman he introduces as his mother, Nalan, is actually Tahir's associate. They give Gamze drugs.

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An ex-con musician returns to Istanbul to take a sweet and silent revenge from the ingenue with whom he once was in love, insensibly to her extramarital affairs.

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Kemal is a successful journalist. He has a happy family with his wife Aynur and son Cengiz. Cengiz is known for his diligence at school. His classmates, however, are irresponsible, lazy, and fond of partying. He is in a romantic relationship with his classmate Sevil. At Sevil's birthday party, his friends force Cengiz to smoke marijuana. Cengiz becomes addicted to drugs.

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Şaban, who works as a clerk in a factory, is madly in love with Bahar, who works as a secretary in the same factory and attends university thanks to the financial support of the famous oil tycoon Adnan Bıçakçı. However, Bahar has her eye on the famous athlete Erkan. After Adnan Bıçakçı reveals that Bahar is his granddaughter, she is kidnapped by gangsters. However, the only person who tries to rescue her is not her boyfriend Erkan, but Orta Direk Şaban.

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Meryem, who opposes male domination and behaves very strictly to her hired lovers, falls in love with Ismail, who works as a waitress at an invitation she attends.

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Hilmi Tok is a billionaire businessman. He dies one day while driving his own car. His real estate assets goes his son Bayram.

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The struggle of a devoted mother for her children.

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This is the story of the politician named Zübük. He gets expelled from the political party that he is a member of, due to corruption. The journalist Yaşar wants to make a news story about his case and investigates Zübük's doings. Yaşar gets baffled at the sly tricks Zübük played on his village people. In the end, he feels sorry about Zübük's present situation, however, as things happen he becomes aware that Zübük has been tricking him.

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This is one of the tragicomic films of Kemal Sunal who is most "serious-comic" artist of the Turkish cinema. This film also reflects socio-economic and cultural life of the 70's-80's Turkiye. The film obviously talk to Turkish audience but who wonder that era of Turkiye can taste of it. The film underlines of love, friendship and -richness in the poorness- and also is a story about the people who prefers love, instead of money and fortune. The theme and narration may include some populist elements -like most Kemal Sunal films- but generally tells its story as well. The story is familiar to Turkish audience: A young man loves young girl. In most Turkish love films one of the partners is rich or poor according to the other but in this movie both sides are poor and they have many difficulties to reach happy end. In my opinion, these kind of movies always gives hope to people to get over it.

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The life story of a family who migrated from a small town in Anatolia to Istanbul. Ömer from the family runs a gas cylinder dealership in the big city. Meanwhile, he gets involved in dirty business with a friend. Having severed ties with his family, Ömer cannot extricate himself from these shady dealings, even if he wanted to. He continues to live his life amidst Istanbul's vibrant and shadowy nightlife.

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The story of a guard who revolts because of exploiting reeve and tradespeople. People start to think he has an uncle working in the ministry of the interior.

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The film tells the story of an idealistic police officer's struggle against smugglers. An international company is involved in arms smuggling. However, arms sales in the country are very low. The head of the holding company believes that advertising is necessary to increase sales. However, advertising arms is prohibited in the country. Therefore, the boss decides to secretly advertise by committing crimes in the country with smuggled arms. He plans to increase anarchy and terrorism among young people to boost arms sales. During a clash, a police officer and a university student are killed. The police officer who dies in the clash is a close friend of Commissioner Cemil. Cemil will collaborate with the university students whose friends were killed to dismantle the criminal organization.

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A robber who carries out a bank robbery is sought everywhere, and the thief seeks shelter in Cevriye's house, seeking help from her. In time, a relationship will arise between the two that rebelled against all life and identities.

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The film is about a cop and a hitman meeting up. Kemal is a cop. He stops the mafia in Istanbul from doing stuff like drug dealing and smuggling. The mafia boss Abbas has to get rid of Kemal because the big boss, Grandpa, told him to. He makes a deal with Kadırgalı Tahir, an ex-con. Kadırgalı Tahir just got out of jail. Though he wants to leave his criminal ways behind, he agrees to kill Kemal to provide his son with a better life. When Kadırgalı Tahir and Kemal face off, they will confront the dark parts of their pasts.

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It tells the story of a child who lost his mother at a young age and struggled to get by with his father. When his father's enemies forced him into debt and caused them to be evicted from their home, little Çakır, seeing his father in distress, helped him with a knife he found on the table and stabbed his father's enemy to death. Çakır, who continued to commit crimes while in prison, became a powerful figure. Despite his relationship with the girl he loves being strained due to her father, Çakır earns the nickname "The Indestructible Man" thanks to his resilience and endurance against his enemies. The film centers on the story of a tough guy who always stands by the good people and the wealthy girl he is in love with.

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The film tells the story of two old friends, Ahmet and Kemal, who work together to solve a murder. Ahmet, nicknamed "Baba," makes a living as an accountant. His son Ali, who works as a laborer at the same factory, is a union member. The factory manager pressures Ahmet to convince his son to leave the union. During a strike that breaks out at the factory, Ali is killed. Ahmet seeks help from Kemal, a businessman and his army buddy, to find his son's killer. Throughout this process, both Kemal and Ahmet begin to question their own lives.

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Sedat, a famous factory owner, falls in love with Sevim, a worker in his factory, and marries her. However, his family does not want this marriage. Meral, a rich woman in love with Sedat, wants revenge. Making a plan with Sedat's brother Nedim, Meral traps Sevim and makes it look like she is cheating on Sedat. Unable to accept this situation, Sevim shoots her husband's brother Nedim and goes to jail. Meanwhile, Sevim is pregnant and gives birth to her baby in prison. When she gets out after serving her sentence, she realizes that the outside is just as cruel as prison.

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A romance between Firat and Çigdem.

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The film tells the story of Ali, a detective who tries to solve a murder committed by a blackmailer. Kazım blackmails people with the photos he takes to make money. On his way back from Rome, the plane he boards crashes and he disappears. Those who are working with Kazım mistake Ali, a detective who happens to be involved in these events, for Kazım. However, only Kazım's girlfriend notices this. After these events, a woman asks Ali, whom she believes to be Kazım, for photos of her brother. There are photos of the woman's brother in Kazım's house. The woman's brother has been murdered. Upon learning this, Ali takes action to solve the murder.

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A blind panhandler girl as an idealist dreamer joins three cronies in a supper, after which the cronies decide to rob a rich man's villa to collect enough money for her to recover from blindness. But they'd never guessed what would happen when her eyes see the daylight.

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Blinded because of Orhan, Ayse falls in love with Orhan, whose face she cannot see. However, Ayse's possibility to see will cause a dilemma for Orhan, who is afraid of losing her.

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A young boy and a director of a movie theater bond over their love of cinema during the trying times of 1950's Turkey.

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A dwarf and a transvestite, both are excluded from the society and doomed to exist at night. Their lives overlap in a strange encounter and this becomes the start of their friendship.

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The film tells the story of a mother who has lost her child. After losing her husband in a traffic accident, Güzin is left alone with her physically and mentally disabled son Sedat. She spends a long time looking for a caregiver to look after Sedat. All the caregivers she finds refuse to work because Sedat is disabled. Güzin locks Sedat in his room and leaves him alone at home while she goes to work. However, one day when she is called to the hospital for an emergency, she forgets to lock the door. When she returns, she finds her son’s lifeless body. All investigations determine that the death was the result of negligence. Therefore, Güzin is found guilty. However, Güzin, who does not believe the verdict, begins searching for her son’s killer.

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The story of a young man who loves crime fiction books, and the daugher of a mafia leader.

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Husnu has got issues and inabilities about the complex and expensive metropolitan life who was a successful teacher in his little town and got a promotion and appointment to Istanbul.

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Ali, who looks exactly like the famous actor Kemal Sunal, is in love with his neighbor Zehra. However, Zehra, who is a fan of Kemal Sunal, does not reciprocate Ali's love. Despite Ali's insistence, she rejects him. Ali will temporarily take Kemal Sunal's place in order to be with Zehra.

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Kerim lives with his family in a rent house for years. One day his landlord tells him to look for another house or raise the rent money.He finds a house by the help of Sühandan whom he works together and in love.

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Selim is a paperboy who delivers the morning papers with his truck. He buys a walkie talkie to find find a friend. His codename is "The Handsome". After a while he meets the girl and they start a relationship. It is hard for them to get married.

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Kemal is a young man who does all kinds of work to make ends meet and is passionate about football. The young man who makes his living from the hardest, one day finds a baby abandoned on the side of the road. Kemal, who adopted the orphaned baby, raises and takes care of the girl like the baby's father.

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Two schizophrenic patients escape from a mental asylum supposing they were mistakenly quarantined. When they arrive at a country village, the villagers assume one is a sheriff and the other is a local magistrate.

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Şaban is a poor man. In Germany, where Şaban went as a worker, tragicomic events happen.

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Şaban returns to Istanbul from Germany to solve a fraud crime that was framed on his father. But the people who meet him at the airport see Şaban as a punk and think that he can't help them…

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A prostitute is hired for a boy by his father to convince him to leave his lover.

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The story of Gülseren's revenge after her brother was murdered in a crime of passion.

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Sevtap and Adem, the postman in the neighborhood, are in love with each other. Sevtap remained single until the age of 30 because no one liked her, so she is still a virgin and has settled for Adem. However, there is someone who opposes this love, her older brother Latif, who was raised in German culture but can be described as a complete fool. One day, Sevtap and Adem send a telegram from Sevtap's father's mouth to convince him to accept the situation. After this telegram, wedding preparations begin. However, during this time, Latif returns permanently from Germany to Turkey, and the truth about the couple is revealed. Latif opposes the marriage at any cost, even if it means harming Adem. Later, despite his reservations, he accepts the marriage and fulfills Adem's every request.

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Şaban, who works as a clerk in a factory, is madly in love with Bahar, who works as a secretary in the same factory and attends university thanks to the financial support of the famous oil tycoon Adnan Bıçakçı. However, Bahar has her eye on the famous athlete Erkan. After Adnan Bıçakçı reveals that Bahar is his granddaughter, she is kidnapped by gangsters. However, the only person who tries to rescue her is not her boyfriend Erkan, but Orta Direk Şaban.

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Father of two kids who looks exactly like a rowdy takes advantage of this and go into different and funny events.

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Kemal writes a letter to his mother telling her that he is a doctor. His mother is so happy that she spreads the news throughout the village. When the girls in the village learn that Kemal is returning to the village, they do everything they can to win him over. However, Kemal falls in love with Sümbül, the daughter of Ruşen Ağa. The discovery that Kemal is not a doctor will put this love in jeopardy.

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Davut is in love with Zeynep, one of the beautiful girls of the village. However, Zeynep's heart is with Haydar Aga's son, Mustafa.

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Hilmi Tok is a billionaire businessman. He dies one day while driving his own car. His real estate assets goes his son Bayram.

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The love between a man wanted by the gendarme and a woman who hid him.

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The life story of a family who migrated from a small town in Anatolia to Istanbul. Ömer from the family runs a gas cylinder dealership in the big city. Meanwhile, he gets involved in dirty business with a friend. Having severed ties with his family, Ömer cannot extricate himself from these shady dealings, even if he wanted to. He continues to live his life amidst Istanbul's vibrant and shadowy nightlife.

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The story of a guard who revolts because of exploiting reeve and tradespeople. People start to think he has an uncle working in the ministry of the interior.

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The film tells the story of police officer Ahmet's struggle with Sungur. Sungur has taken control of the drug, smuggling, and gambling markets in Istanbul. He controls the trade as he pleases. Sungur is also behind the increasing number of murders in the city. Fearing that Ahmet will disrupt his operations, Sungur plays a trick on him. As a result of this trick, Ahmet is dismissed from his job, and his mother goes mad. However, none of this will deter Ahmet.

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Fato, who has forgotten her humanity amid the pink artificiality and stench of a big city, comes to a quiet resort town to escape. Fato, a woman from wealthy circles whose life has been constantly directed by her powerful father and who is fleeing from a man she was forced to marry, runs freely along the beach with Alişan and his horse Gelincik. Fato soon meets Alişan, and a perfect relationship forms between them in every way. Just as Fato has found true happiness, her father reappears. For the beautiful woman who does not flinch in the face of threats from power, authority, and wealth, the time has come to choose between love and death...

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The film tells the story of a woman who struggles to keep her family together after being cheated on. Emine lives with her family in her father-in-law's house. When she catches her husband Reşit with their neighbor Şükran, the young woman takes her baby and leaves home. Her daughter Nermin chooses to stay with her grandfather. While her relatives try to convince Emine to return home, Reşit brings his lover into the house. However, Şükran treats Nermin and her grandfather poorly. Additionally, she begins to cheat on Reşit with her boss. Upon learning of the situation, Emine must make a choice to save her family.

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The film is about a cop and a hitman meeting up. Kemal is a cop. He stops the mafia in Istanbul from doing stuff like drug dealing and smuggling. The mafia boss Abbas has to get rid of Kemal because the big boss, Grandpa, told him to. He makes a deal with Kadırgalı Tahir, an ex-con. Kadırgalı Tahir just got out of jail. Though he wants to leave his criminal ways behind, he agrees to kill Kemal to provide his son with a better life. When Kadırgalı Tahir and Kemal face off, they will confront the dark parts of their pasts.

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The film tells the story of Kadir and his family's struggle to escape the mafia. Kadir's father was killed for opposing the mafia. His mother, Fatma, takes her husband's truck and works to support her two children on her own. Years later, her son Kadir and daughter Nur have grown up. Kadir quits his job to become a powerful figure and joins the mafia. His family is deeply concerned about the work he is doing. As Kadir rises through the ranks in the criminal underworld, his boss Reşit sets a trap for him. This situation will lead Kadir's family into disaster.

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Tigin, born under a blood-stained omen in the Turkistan village of Yesi, grows into a chieftain determined to unite the Turkic tribes and build a mighty state, while Olcayto, rescued as the lone survivor of a brutal raid, dedicates his life to avenging his dead family.

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After two families being at loggerheads for years, it is now Hasip and Nasip's turn. They fight to win the mayor election, and to marry their common love interest, Perihan.

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Taxi driver Mehmet and shop attendant Sibel is preparing for marriage. The taxi's owner is the father of İbrahim, Mehmet's close friend who is secretly in love with Sibel. After his father passes away, he starts living a rich life from his fathers heritage. A love triangle begins to fold between Mehmet, İbrahim and Sibel.

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Hamlet returns home from drama school in United States, after the cold-blooded assassination of her father by her uncle, who has married Hamlet’s mother. After seeing her father’s ghost, Hamlet decides to feign insanity, in order to get to the truth.

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Two rebels battle an evil king in a fantasy medieval Turkish kingdom. Identifying tattoos, galley slavery, stoning, beheadings, sword fights abound. A disneyesque fantasy history yarn, except for the rather extreme violence.

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The film tells the story of two chemists who get into trouble because of an aphrodisiac perfume. Hasan, the king of nightclubs, enters the cosmetics industry by purchasing a failing company called Kozmetik Cemal. The factory surpasses its competitors thanks to a powerful ointment it produces. Orhan and Ali, who work at the Losyon Necip company, are on a quest to discover aphrodisiac scents. This would make it possible to compete with Kozmetik Cemal. However, neither Orhan nor Ali succeeds. Soon, what they were searching for comes to light: Orhan observes that a perfume he purchased during a journey has a seductive effect on women. However, as the perfume's reputation spreads, the mafia becomes involved.

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