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Avare

The Vagabond (Avare) (translated)

Movie · 1964 · 10 people

Shot in 1964 and released on 1 March 1965, Avare is a black-and-white Turkish drama. It is adapted from a work by Rahmi Uçarı and was made by Nazar Film, with Onnik Nazar and Niko Polias as producers.

Sadri Alışık plays Sedat and Ajda Pekkan plays Selma, and Kenan Pars is also in the cast. Erol Taş plays Kaya, Nedret Güvenç is Sedat's mother, Renan Fosforoğlu is the police commissioner, Muammer Gözalan the judge, Sohban Koloğlu the baker, Rıza Tüzün Selma's father and Nubar Kamçılı the boss. Ahmet Mekin appears as a guest actor. As in many films of the period, some actors were dubbed: Sadettin Erbil voiced Erol Taş, Adalet Cimcoz voiced Ajda Pekkan and Hayri Esen voiced Kenan Pars.

Director Semih Evin wrote the screenplay with Enis Olcayto. Rafet Şiriner was the cinematographer, Metin Bükey the composer and Turgut İnangiray the editor. Sedat Demir worked as assistant director. The 1960s are remembered as Sadri Alışık's busiest period in Yeşilçam.

DirectorSemih Evin
Production companyNazar Film

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Sadri Alışık Actor · died at 69 Ajda Pekkan Ajda Pekkan Actor · 80 years old Kenan Pars Kenan Pars Actor · died at 88 Erol Taş Erol Taş Actor · died at 72 Nedret Güvenç Renan Fosforoğlu Nezahat Tanyeri Muammer Gözalan Muammer Gözalan Actor · died at 76 Sohban Koloğlu Rıza Tüzün

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

Avare is a black-and-white drama shot in one of Sadri Alışık's busiest years in Yeşilçam. Stories that move between love and crime always carried a moral test in our old cinema: a good-hearted man tried by wickedness. Having familiar faces of those years such as Erol Taş, Kenan Pars and Nedret Güvenç in the cast recalls how rich the acting pool of the period was. Seeing Ajda Pekkan as a young actress, and with Adalet Cimcoz's voice at that, is also an interesting trip back in time for today's viewers.

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

With keywords such as love, crisis, gang, child thief, blackmail, insult and court, the film offers a clue to how Turkish cinema of the mid-1960s viewed the link between crime and poverty. The child-thief motif in particular suggests how early neglect and hardship can push people into crime. A cast that includes a baker, a police commissioner, a judge and a boss shows a story spread across a wide social range, from the neighbourhood to the courtroom. In that sense Avare is a valuable period piece for anyone who wants to understand the urban underclass's relationship with the law and with crime.

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

A black-and-white drama from 1964, but worth knowing about before you watch with children. Its themes include a gang, blackmail, a child thief and a court case. So it is not a light family film; crime is part of it alongside the romance. In my view it is better suited to teenagers and adults. For younger children the subject may be heavy, and an old black-and-white drama may feel long to them.

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