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Eşrefpaşalılar (2010)

Eşrefpaşalılar poster
Directed by
Hüdaverdi Yavuz
Genre
comedy drama
Country
Turkey
Runtime
1h 43m
Rating
5.3 of 10 from 8 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

The film is about the residents of a tough neighborhood in Izmir whose lives start to change after a new religious teacher arrives. It follows everyday struggles and small transformations among the lower-middle class families.

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What happens

Eşrefpaşalılar is a 2010 Turkish comedy-drama film directed by Hüdaverdi Yavuz. The film, which is the debut feature of director Hüdaverdi Yavuz, treads into familiar territory, the urban lower-middle class, seen in his previous TV work like Şehnaz Tango and Hayat Apartmanı. The film is adapted from a play, written by lead actor Burak Tarık, based on real life experiences, which has been successfully staged at theaters across Turkey and in European countries including Germany by Tiyatro ANSE. Burak Tarık takes one of the leading roles but the rest of the cast is different from the play, with Hüseyin Soysalan, Turgay Tanülkü, and Sermin Hürmeriç heading the cast. The film takes its name from the residents of İzmir’s Eşrefpaşa neighborhood who were infamous for their fierce lifestyle and bad habits until a new Muslim religious teacher was appointed to the neighborhood mosque. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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