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Can Tertip

Can Tertip

Movie · 2015 · 12 people

Military-service humor meets a road-movie pace in Can Tertip, a 2015 Turkish comedy directed by Burak Kuka that opened in cinemas on September 18, 2015, distributed by MC Film. The comedy comes from two very different young men meeting in the same barracks and the escape that follows.

Şakir, played by Ümit Erdim, has idled through life and is in serious trouble. İlyas, played by Volkan Demirok, is a naive young man from Anatolia whose only dream is to serve his country. When they meet in the barracks, Şakir exploits İlyas's innocence and talks him into running away from the army. On the way out they seize the official car of their commander, Captain Yılmaz, played by Hakan Ural, who refuses to let it go and chases them. So Şakir and İlyas head for Istanbul with an angry officer behind them. The cast also includes Tuğba Özerk, Cengiz Küçükayvaz, Sinan Bengier, Sinan Engin, Bengi İdil Uras and Cansu Fırıncı as the character Sülo, with Soner Kekeç as a guest actor.

The film was produced by Öner Arslanel and Soydan Soysal. Its music is by Derya Kadayıfçı, the cinematography by Mehmet Başbaran and the editing by Ferhat Yüksel.

DirectorBurak Kuka
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Cast

Cansu Fırıncı Cansu Fırıncı Actor · 44 years old Sülo Ümit Erdim Ümit Erdim Actor · 41 years old Şakir Cengiz Küçükayvaz Cengiz Küçükayvaz Actor · 58 years old Uncle by Marriage Volkan Demirok İlyas Sinan Engin Rüstem Deniz Özerman Deniz Özerman Actor · 57 years old İlyas's mother Tuna Orhan Tuna Orhan Actor · 60 years old Manager Sinan Bengier Yusuf Süeda Çil Şakir's older sister Tuğba Özerk Gülden Hakan Ural Captain Yılmaz Bengi İdil Uras Bengi İdil Uras Actor · 36 years old Bağdagül

Also in the cast: Soner Kekeç

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

A light road comedy built around military service and an escape. One thing to watch with children: the joke of the story is Şakir tricking naive İlyas into deserting. Little ones may see it simply as a funny game. It is a good chance to talk about why fooling a friend is not really a joke. Better suited to teenagers and young adults.

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

The film combines three parts of a familiar formula: two characters with nothing in common, a road-movie structure and an angry commanding officer in pursuit. The formula gives a solid skeleton but leaves little room for surprise; the comedy depends almost entirely on the timing between the two leads and the rhythm of the chase. In my view the real risk is that the naive Anatolian lad and the idle city drifter sit on the edge of caricature, and if the characters do not deepen, the jokes are bound to repeat. The crew list suggests a tidy production, but what decides a comedy like this is how far the script gets beyond its types.

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

Military service is shared memory for many men in Turkey, which is why barracks comedies find an audience in every generation. Can Tertip joins that tradition by pairing a naive young Anatolian whose only dream is to serve his country with another young man who has idled his life away. Their contrast reproduces the familiar divide between the provinces and the big city, and there is a risk of leaning on stereotype. On the other hand, framing desertion not as heroism but as a story of getting into trouble is a well-known way of softening a sensitive subject with humor.

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