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Pars: Operation Cherry (Pars: Kiraz Operasyonu)

Pars: Operation Cherry (Pars: Kiraz Operasyonu)

Movie · 2007 · 16 people

Pars: Kiraz Operasyonu (Pars: Operation Cherry) is a 2007 action and crime film written, directed and produced by Osman Sınav. It opened across Turkey on April 20, 2007, and ranked ninth among that year's Turkish films by box office. Production began in October 2006, with shooting in Istanbul, Amsterdam and Monaco. A crew of 89, 73 actors and about a thousand extras worked on it. The same story was later made into the television series Pars: Narkoterör.

The story opens with the murder of narcotics officer Ertuğrul Karahan and his wife, which their children witness. Years later his elder son Atilla (Mehmet Kurtuluş) is a narcotics officer nicknamed "Pars". With his colleague Asena (Nida Şafak) he seizes a large drug shipment that belongs to Haşhaşi (Murat Daltaban), a trafficker who passes as a respected industrialist. Haşhaşi has ties to politicians, and Atilla is sidelined. When his brother Tayfun (Haluk Piyes) dies in a drug-related case, Atilla pursues Haşhaşi without official backing.

The chase takes him to the Netherlands, France, Greece and Monaco. Along the way he meets İnci (Pelin Batu), a guidance teacher at Tayfun's school. Uğur Polat plays Ertuğrul, Udo Kier plays Klaus Kayman and Selçuk Yöntem plays Kadir Zebari.

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

Four countries in pursuit of a drug trafficker: the Netherlands, France, Greece, Monaco. A narcotics officer working without official backing gives both chase and intrigue. The Amsterdam and Monaco shooting, the thousand or so extras and the large crew give the film the feel of a real big production. The one worry is formula: the tough-cop mold may be too familiar. For a younger viewer after movement, a chase spread over four countries is a determined choice.

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

Osman Sınav writing, directing and producing strengthens the film's personal stamp, but also carries a risk of unchecked excess. A plot running from a murder witnessed in childhood to an adult revenge is a well-trodden path of action cinema. What is new is carrying that path from Amsterdam to Monaco; whether the geographical variety adds depth to the story is debatable. It has good rhythm and production scale, but the plot never leaves familiar molds. That it was later retold as a series suggests the story has a solid core, though it feels squeezed into a single film.

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

The film's social vein is a drug trade that, through a trafficker posing as a respected industrialist and his ties to politicians, sidelines a state officer. It treats the obstacles within institutions and the limits of individual struggle in a gripping action idiom. That the same story was later turned into a television series shows the subject held interest. Of course it is popular storytelling rather than real analysis; still, it voices a discontent about smuggling and networks of influence.

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