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Wedding Feast (Düğün Dernek)

Wedding Feast (Düğün Dernek) (translated)

Movie · 2013 · 17 people

Selçuk Aydemir both wrote and directed Düğün Dernek, a 2013 Turkish comedy brought to screen by production house BKM. The story follows İsmail, a villager from Esenyurt in Sivas province, after his son Tarık comes home from abroad needing to marry Monica, a woman he met while working in Latvia; İsmail treats the match as a matter of family honor and refuses to let it happen without a proper celebration.

Short on funds but determined, İsmail pulls together a village-square wedding in just ten days with help from friends nicknamed Fikret and Çetin, plus the local schoolteacher Saffet. As preparations lurch forward, mounting misunderstandings culminate on the wedding night itself, when the bride vanishes atop a camel and visitors from Russia turn up looking for her.

Ahmet Kural and Murat Cemcir carry the lead roles, joined by Rasim Öztekin, Devrim Yakut and Barış Yıldız; filming took place across Istanbul, Sivas and the Kemaliye district of Erzincan.

Opening on December 6, 2013, across 229 screens, the picture drew more than 572,000 viewers in its opening three days and, by early 2014, had overtaken Fetih 1453 to become the most-watched Turkish release of the previous three decades.

DirectorSelçuk Aydemir
Production companyBKM
Wedding Feast (Düğün Dernek)

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Ahmet Kural Ahmet Kural Actor · 44 years old Fikret Murat Cemcir Murat Cemcir Actor · 49 years old Çetin Devrim Yakut Devrim Yakut Actor · 58 years old Hatice Korhan Herduran Korhan Herduran Actor · 38 years old Jeweler Nazlı Tosunoğlu Nazlı Tosunoğlu Actor · 62 years old Rasim Öztekin Rasim Öztekin Actor · died at 62 İsmail Zerrin Sümer Actor · born 1945 Şengül Yeliz Kuvancı Yeliz Kuvancı Actor · 39 years old Bank clerk Berat Efe Parlar Berat Efe Parlar Actor · 22 years old Child Ulaş Torun Actor · born 1982 Tarık Şinasi Yurtsever Şinasi Yurtsever Actor · died at 51 Yılmaz Toygun Ateş Actor · died at 66 Molla Dede Olgun Toker Olgun Toker Actor · 40 years old Hotel Security Binnur Kaya Binnur Kaya Actor · 54 years old Kemal İnci Kemal İnci Film director · died at 85 İshak Sırrı Süreyya Önder Sırrı Süreyya Önder Politician · died at 62 Sivas Otel Sahibi Barış Yıldız Barış Yıldız Actor · 44 years old

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

A comedy you can happily laugh through with the family. The frantic father trying to pull a village wedding together in ten days keeps everyone entertained. Older viewers will find familiar scenes of village life, and the younger ones will laugh at the chaos. Ahmet Kural and Murat Cemcir make a good pair. Still, some jokes are not the kind small children will get, so it helps to be there with them. Don't look for a big message; it is here to make you laugh.

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

Seeing the warm bustle of an Anatolian wedding in Düğün Dernek makes one smile: the village square, friends rushing to help, a father who puts his honor above everything. This was the lifeblood of our old comedies too. Actors such as Rasim Öztekin and Devrim Yakut bring warmth to the story. The humor, however, leans too often on volume and exaggerated types, and anyone who misses the gentle, heart-warming comedy of Yeşilçam may tire of it at times. Still, drawing such crowds to cinemas shows the story touched a nerve somewhere.

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

Beneath the laughs of Düğün Dernek lies a social layer that is easy to miss. A son who must marry a woman he met while working in Latvia, and a father who treats the match as a matter of honor, show with humor how migration and contact with the wider world reach families in the provinces. In a village in Sivas, a wedding is still a test passed in front of the whole community. The film chooses to spend that tension on comedy rather than dig into it. Even so, becoming the most-watched Turkish release of the previous three decades by early 2014 shows how close audiences felt to this familiar picture.

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