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Kapıcılar Kralı (1977)

Kapıcılar Kralı poster
Directed by
Zeki Ökten
Genre
comedy film
Country
Turkey
Runtime
1h 24m
Rating
7.8 of 10 from 107 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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A doorman uses a mix of charm and scheming to get ahead in his apartment building. The film follows his outlandish attempts to improve his status and deal with the residents.

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What happens

King of the Doormen, (Turkish: Kapıcılar Kralı), is a 1976 Turkish comedy film featuring Kemal Sunal, Sevda Ferdağ, Bilge Zobu and Şevket Altuğ, produced by Arif and Abdurrahman Keskiner and, directed by Zeki Ökten. The movie is the third collaboration of Ökten and Sunal, following Hanzo and Şaşkın Damat, both shot in 1975. Kapıcılar Kralı is considered as one of the most memorable motion pictures of the career of Kemal Sunal. Along with Çöpçüler Kralı another movie of Sunal also directed by Zeki Ökten, Kapıcılar Kralı is also featured in the book 100 Yılın 100 Türk Filmi, written by Atilla Dorsay, Turkish film critic. The movie has been generously awarded, winning best director and best actor awards at 1977 International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, in which it was also runner-up of best motion picture after Kara Çarşaflı Gelin of director and producer Süreyya Duru. Thus, Kemal Sunal became the first comedy-genre actor ever to win the award. Movie is also inducted at 100 Yıl 100 Film, a publicly voted list that is gathering 100 best motion pictures of Turkish cinema, in honour of its centenary, published by Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Turkey, in 2014. The movie is ranked 36th out of 100 movies in total, after an online-voted pool of 367,620 voters. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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