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Crazy Crazy Earrings (Deli Deli Küpeli)

Crazy Crazy Earrings (Deli Deli Küpeli) (translated)

Movie · 1986 · 8 people

Deli Deli Küpeli ("Crazy Crazy Earrings"), a 1986 Turkish comedy, mixes comedy, political satire, drama and sentiment. A screen adaptation of Cevat Fehmi Başkut's stage play Buzlar Çözülmeden, it was written by Osman F. Seden, with director Kartal Tibet also contributing to the script. Memduh Ün produced it for Uğur Film. Shot in colour on 35 mm, it runs 96 minutes, with Kemal Sunal and Melike Zobu in the leading roles.

The story follows two madmen who escape from a mental hospital, reach a town, and by chance are taken for the district governor and the judge. Kemal Sunal plays the "Mad Governor" and Yavuzer Çetinkaya the "Mad Judge"; the cast also lists a "Mad Sergeant", played by İhsan Yüce. Melike Zobu plays Hatice, Yaman Okay the bandit Yılanoğlu, Reha Yurdakul the lawyer Şeref Haktanır and Sırrı Elitaş the moneylender Mahmut Ağa. The mix-up turns into a farce that draws in the town's tradesmen, its landlord and its outlaw.

A Korean War veteran, Napoleon, a halay dance and a hanging appear on the same list. Orhan Oğuz was the director of photography and Cahit Berkay composed the music.

DirectorKartal Tibet
Production companyUğur Film

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Kemal Sunal Kemal Sunal Film actor · died at 55 Mad District Governor Melike Zobu Melike Zobu Film actor · 63 years old Hatice Reha Yurdakul Sırrı Elitaş Kartal Tibet Kartal Tibet Actor · died at 82 Villager İhsan Yüce Actor · died at 61 Mad Sergeant Yaman Okay Yaman Okay Actor · died at 41 Bandit Yılanoğlu Hakkı Kıvanç Hakkı Kıvanç Actor · died at 83 Commander

Also in the cast: Yavuzer Çetinkaya (Deli Hakim)

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

Say Kemal Sunal and most families settle in comfortably, and this is that kind of comedy. But there are a few warnings for young children: the story features a bandit, and a hanging is among the film's listed keywords. Topics such as black marketeering and usury may feel heavy or dull to little ones. In my view it suits children over ten and adults better. The humour built around madness is also worth talking through with children.

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

Adapted from Cevat Fehmi Başkut's play Buzlar Çözülmeden, the film satirises provincial administration through two mental patients who are taken for the district governor and the judge. What stands out most is how a 1986 film ties that satire to everyday struggles to get by: black marketeering, hoarding, usury, bread, the bakery and gas cylinders put ordinary people's most basic needs at the centre of the story. Having the landlord, the moneylender and the bandit side by side in one town paints a pointed picture of power in the provinces. In a comedy about corruption, seating two madmen in the seats of authority builds the irony of the satire on its own.

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

Bringing Kemal Sunal's comedy together with a text by a master playwright like Cevat Fehmi Başkut is a good idea from the start. The graceful irony of Başkut's theatre provides a solid story skeleton and lends the film a weight beyond ordinary slapstick. However, the farce, which pulls a crowded town, its tradesmen, its landlord and its outlaw into the same muddle, risks drowning the subtlety of the text in noise at times. Still, it is a welcome example of the old-style comedy that makes you think while it makes you laugh.

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