The Shadow Play

1992 1h 43m TR

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★7.2TMDB · 42

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Synopsis

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Mahmut and Abidin work as comedians at a night club, Mahmut is honest yet Abidin is sly. A deaf and mute girl named Kumru is brought to work in the night club.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Şener Şen
Abidin
Şevket Altuğ
Mahmut
Larissa Litichevskaya
Kumru
Metin Çekmez
Ramazan
Füreya Koral
Büyük Hanım
Nazan Kesal
Sezen
Ülkü Duru
Mehtap
Nergis Çorakçı
Müjde

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Yavuz Turgul
Writers: Yavuz Turgul
Languages: Turkish
Countries: Turkey

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1 / 6

MONEY

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Shot for just $0.1M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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2 / 6

ERA

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34 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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3 / 6

RUNTIME

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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4 / 6

CAST

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Şener Şen and Şevket Altuğ and Larissa Litichevskaya carry the top of the cast.

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5 / 6

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0263388 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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6 / 6

WILD

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Only 42 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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The take

Yavuz Turgul directs. Profitable at the box office. Produced in Turkey. Dialogue in Turkish.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Shot for just $0.1M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
234 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
4Şener Şen and Şevket Altuğ and Larissa Litichevskaya carry the top of the cast.
5IMDB entry: tt0263388 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
6Only 42 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Runtime: 103 min · 1h 43m
Status: Released
Budget: $145,000
Box office: $345,000
Return: 238% of budget
Original language: TR
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: The Shadow Play (1992)

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What people are saying

Tolga Tatari2013-09-05
The one of the very best movie of Tavuz Turgul's cinematography. Istanbul is the stage(iconographic background)all the characters are of warriors for their own existence for some reason.Time and city looses its originality day by day.Only the very best partners can have the same dream which may takes days. Love is so difficult to reach in that stage.I am not pessimistic in that point.Istanbul is becoming for something different from what it was before.True.There also is something new which is good and inspiring. The movie also carries of an important reference which reminds traditional "Gölge Oyunu-Karagöz=two partners arguing all the time for an artificial subject that they discovered for performance" As a revolutionist I do not agree with the idea that the movie says ;no way out to get this capitalistic degradation. (from mujdatbank, imdb)

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