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Peak (Doruk)

Peak (Doruk) (translated)

Movie · 1985 · 4 people

Melih Gülgen directed and produced the 1985 color Turkish film Doruk (Peak) from a screenplay by Mehmet Aydın. Shot on 35 mm, this action melodrama was made by Gülgen Film. Orhan Gencebay and Cüneyt Arkın are the leads.

The story centers on two friends: Orhan (Orhan Gencebay), a composer, and Captain Cemil (Cüneyt Arkın), a truck driver. They actually make their money by selling maps to treasure hunters, a small-scale swindling arrangement of sorts. One day a beautiful young woman, Çiğdem (Müge Akyamaç), crosses their path and both fall in love with her, turning the friendship into a rivalry. On top of that, a troublesome treasure hunter, one of the people they have cheated, comes after them. The cast also includes Oğuz Bora (Nahit), Hüseyin Baradan, Yılmaz Kanat, Cengiz İşten and Hasan Terzi.

Hüseyin Özşahin was the cinematographer. Ender Işık Servisi supplied lighting, Lale Film the laboratory and film-washing work, and Yeni Stüdyo the dubbing. In the dubbing, Abdurrahman Palay voiced Orhan Gencebay, Toron Karacaoğlu voiced Cüneyt Arkın, Gülen Kıpçak voiced Müge Akyamaç, Timuçin Caymaz voiced Oğuz Bora and Dinçer Çekmez voiced Hüseyin Baradan; Zafer Önen, Devrim Parscan and Saltuk Kaplangı are also credited among the dubbing voices.

DirectorMelih Gülgen
Production companyGülgen Film

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Orhan Gencebay Orhan Gencebay Singer · 82 years old Orhan Cüneyt Arkın Cüneyt Arkın Actor · died at 84 Cemil Müge Akyamaç Zafer Önen Zafer Önen Actor · died at 92

Also in the cast: Oğuz Bora, Hüseyin Baradan, Yılmaz Kanat, Cengiz İşten

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

Bringing together Orhan Gencebay and Cüneyt Arkın, two great stars of music and of action, in one film is one of the most tempting promises of eighties cinema. Gencebay playing a composer also raises the hope that the music will be given room. Yet two friends falling for the same woman and becoming rivals is a template Yeşilçam knew very well, perhaps too well. In my view the film's appeal lies less in its story than in these two men standing side by side, and in the familiar voices of the old dubbing cast.

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

On paper there are two separate threats: a friendship that breaks down over the same woman, and a troublesome treasure hunter they cheated who comes after them. That double pressure is a setup that could keep the pace lively. But the film is an action melodrama, so the love triangle gets plenty of screen time too. Anyone after pure action may have to be patient for the chase.

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

The film's most interesting social detail is that its heroes make their living by selling maps to treasure hunters. This small-scale swindle is a reminder of how widespread the dreams of buried treasure handed down the generations in Anatolia are, and that those dreams also feed the people who profit from them. The partnership between a composer and a truck driver sketches the heroes of the period as people with ordinary jobs who still take shortcuts. Pairing an arabesk star with an action star in eighties popular cinema also looks like a calculated bid to bring two big audiences into the same theatre.

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