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Yarınsız Adam (1976)

Yarınsız Adam poster
Directed by
Remzi Jöntürk
Genre
independent film
Country
Turkey
Runtime
1h 24m
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A poor man named Murat helps a friend escape from the police after they steal to survive. This lands Murat in prison, and the film shows the world from his perspective as a criminal who grew up in poverty. It highlights the gap between rich and poor in Turkey.

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What happens

Yarınsız Adam is a Turkish political film by Remzi Aydın Jöntürk, the first in his trilogy. It was succeeded by Satılmış Adam (Sold Man) and Yıkılmayan Adam (Indestructible Man), both filmed in 1977. The film is about the story of Murat, portrayed by Cüneyt Arkın. Murat helps his friend, Kemal, when they are escaping from the police because they steal to survive. This help costs Murat badly and he is sent to prison. During the runtime of the film, viewers see the world from the eyes of a criminal, who lived his childhood in poverty, and understand the gap between the rich and poor in Turkey. Just like the themes of the other political films of Jöntürk, there is a socialist message, an attribution to the inequality of the system. Jöntürk prefers to do it rather sharply in some scenes of the film. For example, the poor little boy that gets in the car of Murat directly states that the rich and the poor can't be friends because wealthy people can't understand the feelings of poor people. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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