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Hayati is a beloved baker who bakes bread and other baked goods at his bakery, which he has named Hayatinin Yeri (The Place of Life). However, while leading an ordinary life in his father's legacy bakery, he gets into big trouble for refusing to pay protection money to the mafia. Just as guns start firing, the situation escalates further when his milk brother Utku intervenes. For Utku is a police officer conducting a special operation while keeping his identity hidden. Hayati takes over the operation to repay his debt to Utku, but it's only a matter of time before he messes up this highly confidential and delicate process!
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Released
Original Language
TR
This is one of the tragicomic films of Kemal Sunal who is most "serious-comic" artist of the Turkish cinema. This film also reflects socio-economic and cultural life of the 70's-80's Turkiye. The film obviously talk to Turkish audience but who wonder that era of Turkiye can taste of it. The film underlines of love, friendship and -richness in the poorness- and also is a story about the people who prefers love, instead of money and fortune. The theme and narration may include some populist elements -like most Kemal Sunal films- but generally tells its story as well. The story is familiar to Turkish audience: A young man loves young girl. In most Turkish love films one of the partners is rich or poor according to the other but in this movie both sides are poor and they have many difficulties to reach happy end. In my opinion, these kind of movies always gives hope to people to get over it.