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Can Pazarı

A Matter of Life and Death (Can Pazarı) (translated)

Movie · 1976 · 12 people

Drama, sentiment, adventure and comedy mix in Can Pazarı, a 1976 Turkish-Iranian co-production known in Iran by a title meaning “The Brave Girl and the Vengeful Man”. It ties a love story to an underworld feud. Orhan Elmas and Ertem Göreç share the direction and Erdoğan Tünaş wrote the script. Berker İnanoğlu produced it, and Er Film and Sezer Film made it. It runs about 80 minutes in colour, shot by Orhan Kapkı.

Murat, the hero, is a masseur loved by his clients whose greatest aim is to make his daughter Ebru happy. One day he is assigned to treat Abbas Bey, one of the underworld bosses, and so meets Abbas’s daughter Selma. The two clash at first, then fall in love. But the struggle between Abbas and his rival Kamil drags Murat and those around him into events that cannot be undone.

Kadir İnanır plays Murat and the Iranian actress Puri Banai plays Selma, with Erol Taş as Kamil and Ali Sururi as Abbas Bey. Turgut Özatay, Tülin Kazan, Hakkı Kıvanç and Huriye Yirmibeş also appear. The music is by Barış Manço and Erol Evgin, and Yeni Stüdyo handled dubbing, preparation and colouring.

DirectorOrhan Elmas, Ertem Göreç
Production companyEr Film, Sezer Film

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Kadir İnanır Kadir İnanır Film actor · died at 77 Pouri Banayi Pouri Banayi Actor · 86 years old Erol Taş Erol Taş Actor · died at 72 Ali Sururi Ali Miri Süheyl Eğriboz Süheyl Eğriboz Actor · died at 86 Tevfik Şen Yılmaz Kurt Turgut Özatay Turgut Özatay Actor · died at 74 Ata Saka Alev Altın Tülin Kazan

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

Having the music in the hands of Barış Manço and Erol Evgin makes this film worth remembering for that alone; it promises a familiar warmth to anyone who loves the sound of those years. Kadir İnanır as a masseur cherished by his clients and a father who puts his daughter's happiness above all fits beautifully into Yeşilçam's tradition of the modest, good-hearted hero. Being a Turkish-Iranian co-production, with the Iranian actress Puri Banai as Selma, also gives it a colour rarely seen in that period. Two young people who clash first and then fall in love carry the cherished flavour of old-fashioned romances.

Action & Thriller Fan Puts pace, tension and set pieces first; little patience for slow drama.

The feud between underworld bosses Abbas and Kamil gives the story a real sense of threat and stakes. Seeing Erol Taş as Kamil is practically a promise of toughness in the cinema of that era. The catch: with the love story and comedy cutting in, the tension is likely to scatter. Don't expect a pure action film; this is a mix that swings between adventure and sentimental scenes.

Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

Carrying two directors' names and two countries' backing seems to partly explain Can Pazarı's scattered structure. Erdoğan Tünaş's script tries to melt drama, sentiment, adventure and comedy in one pot, and in tying a love story to an underworld feud it struggles to manage the shifts in tone; in such hybrids, giving every genre an equal share often means giving none of them enough depth. The fatherhood, romance and revenge strands take the stage in turn rather than feeding one another. Orhan Kapkı's colour photography adds production value, but in my view the film is best read less as a work of cinema than as a commercial partnership trying to address two markets at once.

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