Babam Ve Oglum (2005)

User Rating:

8.9/10   

Director:

Çagan Irmak

Writer:

Çagan Irmak (writer)

Release Date:

18 November 2005 (Turkey)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot:

Sadik is one of the rebellious youth who has been politically active as a university student and became a left-wing journalist in the 70's...

Plot Keywords:

Coup | Journalist | Torture | Pulmonary Edema | Horseshoe

Awards:

5 wins

Cast

Çetin Tekindor	...	Hüseyin
Fikret Kuskan	...	Sadik
Hümeyra	...	Nuran
Serif Sezer	...	Gülbeyaz Teyze
Yetkin Dikinciler	...	Salim
Binnur Kaya	...	Hanife
Özge Özberk	...	Birgül
Halit Ergenç	...	Özkan
Tuba Büyüküstün	...	Aysun
Mahmut Gökgöz	...	Kahya
Bilge Sen	...	Fatma Fatma
Ege Tanman	...	Deniz
Erdal Tosun	...	Mustafa
Nergis Çorakçi	...	Sakine
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Can Senozan	...	Mehmet

Also Known As:

My Father and My Son (International: English title)
My Father and Son (International: English title)

Runtime:

Turkey:108 min

Country:

Turkey

Language:

Turkish

Color:

Color

Certification:

Germany:6 | UK:PG

Filming Locations:

Ayvalik, Turkey

Company:

Avsar Film

Quotes:

Deniz: As people grow, do their dreams get smaller, dad?

One of the best Turkish movies ever

The movie starts on the days of military government, which started Sep.12th, 1980, and lasted 3 years (Effects of this action against democracy lasted more than 15 years). A young socialist newspaper writer (Fikret Kuskan) loses his wife on birth of his only son on the very first day of the military action, because he can not find any help for delivery of the child. After 6 years past, the father was desperate to find any jobs on the papers, which are now supporters of the new order, and decides to return his father (Çetin Tekindor)'s home in a small village near Izmir: A house that he has left years ago fighting his father's wills to make him a person that his father would like him to be.

I can not even summarize the rest of the movie, since one should see the movie himself/herself to understand the encounters of two strangers, father and son. One should notice the mother (Humeyra)'s role on the relationship (or non-relationship) of these two different men, and the grandson (Ege Tanman).

If you have a Mediterrenean blood, Greek, Italian, whatever, you will find many things in this movie. You don't have to be Turk to understand the emotional rivers in this movie. It really touches hearts of the Turkish people.