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Ah Bu Gençlik

Oh, This Youth!

Movie · 1976 · 3 people

Ah Bu Gençlik (Oh, This Youth!) is a 1976 Turkish-Iranian co-production, a comedy and sentimental film shot in colour on 35 mm and running 97 minutes. Berker İnanoğlu produced it for Sezer Film, and Tuncay Ural was the director of photography. It came out in Turkey as Ah Bu Gençlik and in Iran as Khanoum Delesh Motour Mikhad. It is the second version of a film of the same name made in 1975, with Gülşen Bubikoğlu and Mesut Engin. The screenplay is by Ertem Göreç, and the direction is credited to Ertem Göreç together with Jamshid Sheybani.

At the centre is Cemile (Pouri Banayi), a young fisherwoman who lives with her grandfather and dreams of owning a motorboat, saving money toward it. Her grandfather Salih knows fishing will never pay for an engine, so he sells the tavern he runs and gives the money to Cemile, sending her to Istanbul to buy the boat. Things go in unplanned directions once she gets there. On the way she meets Cemal (Miri), the gambling grandson of a rich businessman, and the two are swept into comic adventures.

The cast also includes Hulusi Kentmen, Nubar Terziyan, Sami Hazinses, Tuncer Necmioğlu, Süheyl Eğriboz and Bahman Mofid as Tarık.

DirectorErtem Göreç, Jamshid Sheybani
Production companySezer Film

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Pouri Banayi Pouri Banayi Actor · 86 years old Bahman Mofid Bahman Mofid Actor · died at 78 Ali Miri

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Yeşilçam Nostalgic A viewer raised on the classics, looking for warm storytelling and strong acting.

That a film made only a year earlier was remade so soon, this time as a co-production with Iran, shows how quickly stories changed hands in the cinema of those years. For an eye raised on the classics, the story's heart is in the right place: a grandfather who sells the tavern he runs for the sake of his granddaughter's dream carries the theme of sacrifice and love such films hold dear. Still, for anyone who knows the first version, seeing the same tale with different faces loses some of its freshness, and the effort to hold two separate cinemas together may show at times.

Family Viewer Asks whether the whole household can watch it; cares about humour and heart.

A light comedy with a warm story: a young fisher girl who heads to Istanbul with her grandfather's help to buy a boat, and the comic adventures that follow. On the whole it is the kind of film families can watch. Just note that the grandfather runs a tavern and one character is a gambler, which may prompt a few questions from young children. Pleasant, simple fun for adults and teens.

History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

Ah Bu Gençlik is the product of a film partnership between Turkey and Iran in the mid-seventies, released under different titles in the two countries. That makes it an interesting record of how close the region's cinemas could be in those years. The story itself follows a familiar social movement: a young person leaving a small life for the big city and meeting the gambling grandson of a rich businessman there. Pairing a fisher girl who saves money through hard work with a wealthy family's reckless young man lightly probes class difference through comedy, though the film heads for fun rather than digging deeper.

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