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Crazy Dumrul (Deli Dumrul)

Crazy Dumrul (Deli Dumrul) (translated)

Movie · 2017 · 9 people

Deli Dumrul draws on the Deli Dumrul tale from the Dede Korkut stories and turns it into a Turkish comedy from 2017, both written and directed by Burak Aksak. Produced by BKM Film, it was shot in Istanbul and reached cinemas on September 1, 2017. It is also known by the longer title Dede Korkut Hikâyeleri: Deli Dumrul.

Dumrul is a man whose heart burns with love. To win the girl he longs for, he throws himself into one adventure after another, wrestling sea pirates and, when it comes down to it, standing up to the Angel of Death himself. The question driving the film is whether he will reach his beloved or be beaten by the pirates. Şahin Irmak and Eda Ece play the leads, with Cengiz Bozkurt, Devrim Yakut, Necip Memili, Arzu Oruç, Zafer Algöz, Onur Atilla, Günay Karacaoğlu, Gülhan Tekin and Salih Kalyon in the wider cast.

Other Turkish films share this title; this one is Aksak's.

DirectorBurak Aksak
Production companyBKM Film
Crazy Dumrul (Deli Dumrul)

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Also in the cast: Arzu Oruç, Gülhan Tekin

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

A comedy that retells Deli Dumrul, the hero we know from the Dede Korkut tales. The story works for a family evening: a man throwing himself into adventures for love, wrestling pirates, standing up to the Angel of Death. For children it plays like a fairy tale, for adults it is a familiar story. It fills an evening nicely. It could be a fun way to introduce children to Dede Korkut, and reading the original together afterwards would round it off well.

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

The Dede Korkut tales are among the richest treasures of Turkish folk literature, and Deli Dumrul's reckoning with the Angel of Death is a deep story about death, courage and love. Rebuilding that motif as comedy is a worthy way of introducing a new generation to this heritage. Still, an eye raised on the classics cannot help asking whether the story's gravity is left in the shadow of the laughs. For anyone looking for the simple warmth of the old fairy-tale films, the presence of seasoned players such as Cengiz Bozkurt and Devrim Yakut is some consolation.

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

Burak Aksak, who both wrote and directed this BKM production, chose his source well: the Deli Dumrul tale from Dede Korkut offers a strong dramatic spine of love, courage and bargaining with death. The question is how coherently the comedy built on that spine works. An adventure chain running from wrestling pirates to defying the Angel of Death risks feeling like a string of sketches unless the rhythm binds it together, and the formula humor common to productions like this can easily sand down the legend's strange, dark edge. The large, experienced comic cast is strong enough to carry the film, but the material deserved a bolder interpretation.

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