Öyle Olsun

So Be It (Öyle Olsun) (translated)

Movie · 1976 · 6 people

Directed by Orhan Aksoy in 1976, Öyle Olsun ("So Be It") is an emotional Yeşilçam comedy. Pairing Tarık Akan with Müjde Ar, it sets a love story against the world of newspaper journalism, with a false report, a damages suit and marriage games as its raw material. The film runs about ninety minutes, made by Arzu Film and produced by Nahit Ataman.

Ferit (Tarık Akan), a journalist, starts a new series exposing the tricks of well-known companies. In his latest piece he writes that the oils made by businessman Hulusi Bey (Hulusi Kentmen) are not natural, and the series sharply raises the paper's circulation. That same night, at a disco, he sees Hulusi Bey's daughter Alev (Müjde Ar) with a married man and reports it, but this time he has got it wrong. Hulusi Bey files a damages suit that could bankrupt the paper. To win it, Ferit sets a trap for Alev, but things do not go as planned, and he falls in love with the woman he is trapping.

The cast also includes Ayşen Gruda (as Ayşe Huyugüzel), Şevket Altuğ (Şevki), Bilge Zobu (the newspaper owner), Aysel Gürel, İhsan Yüce and Cevdet Arıkan. Sadık Şendil, Suphi Tekniker and Orhan Aksoy wrote the script, and Hüseyin Özşahin was the director of photography.

DirectorOrhan Aksoy
Production companyArzu Film
So Be It (Öyle Olsun) So Be It (Öyle Olsun)

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

Seeing Tarık Akan and Müjde Ar in the same frame brings back Yeşilçam's brightest years. Öyle Olsun tells that familiar, endearing story of a man who sets a trap and falls into it himself; anyone not hunting for surprises will enjoy it. Beloved Yeşilçam faces such as Hulusi Kentmen, Ayşen Gruda and Şevket Altuğ give the cast an extra warmth. Even among newsrooms, circulation figures and damages suits, love makes room for itself. An eye used to today's fast comedies may find it plain; to my mind, that plainness is exactly where its charm lies.

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

A comedy built around a newspaper, a lawsuit and a romance; by its subject it speaks more to teenagers and adults than to children. The story rests on a false news report, a wrong claim about a married man and a trap set for a woman, all hard for little ones to follow. It is a grown-up comedy from the 1970s, so it is worth taking a look first before watching with young kids. Watching it with grandparents, though, can be a sweet bit of nostalgia.

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

Öyle Olsun looks like a light romantic comedy, but it opens an interesting window onto the 1970s press. A series exposing the tricks of well-known companies drives up circulation, which shows investigative journalism finding its readers; the same journalist misreading what he saw at a disco and running it as news is a reminder of what sensationalism costs. The damages suit between an olive-oil manufacturer and the paper pits the power of capital against the power of the press. Seen today, presenting a trap set for a woman to win a lawsuit as the starting point of a romance is a little uncomfortable; within the comedy habits of its time, it plays as a harmless game.

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