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Sold Man (Satılmış Adam)

Sold Man (Satılmış Adam) (translated)

Movie · 1977 · 15 people

Remzi Aydın Jöntürk directed the 1977 Turkish film Satılmış Adam ("Sold Man"). Sources describe it variously as a political thriller and action film, a drama, an adventure and a sentimental picture. Shot in colour and running 85 minutes, it was produced by Berker İnanoğlu with photography by Orhan Kapkı, as a joint production of Er Film and Sezer Film. Safa Önal wrote the screenplay with Jöntürk. It is the second part of the director's Adam Trilogy, coming after Yarınsız Adam (1976) and before Yıkılmayan Adam (1977). Cüneyt Arkın, Perihan Savaş and Nejat Özbek star.

The film is about the hired killer Halil (Cüneyt Arkın) coming to terms with his past. Mahmut hires him to kill his daughter Zeynep (Perihan Savaş), who has defied tradition by taking up with Tezcan (Nejat Özbek), the son of an enemy family. The couple fled to Fethiye to escape Mahmut. Halil goes there, finds their trail and sets out with them on a hard journey to hand them over to Mahmut. Surviving one mishap after another, the three grow closer and start to question their pasts.

The cast also includes Simini Gaffari (Semra), Mahmut Tahrani (Mahmut), Tuncer Necmioğlu (Şehmuz) and İsmail Hakkı Şen (Vedat).

DirectorRemzi Jöntürk
Production companyEr Film, Sezer Film

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Cast

Cüneyt Arkın Cüneyt Arkın Actor · died at 84 Halil Perihan Savaş Perihan Savaş Actor · 71 years old Zeynep Nejat Özbek Tezcan Simin Ghaffari Mahmood Tehrani Tuncer Necmioğlu Tuncer Necmioğlu Actor · died at 69 Şehmuz Nevin Nuray Nevin İlhan Hemşeri İlhan Oflaz Onur Oflaz İsmail Hakkı Şen Vedat Hasan Ceylan Kurtar Bey İhsan Gedik Vedat's henchman Aydın Haberdar Actor · 1936 – 2006 Vedat's henchman Dündar Aydınlı Casino henchman Ata Saka Actor · born 1937 Vedat's henchman

Also in the cast: Mahmut Tahrani

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

The second part of Remzi Jöntürk's Adam Trilogy, Satılmış Adam sits between Yarınsız Adam and Yıkılmayan Adam. A hired killer who ends up travelling with the young couple he was sent after, and starts to question his past, links it to Yeşilçam's fine old tradition of looking for the human being inside the hard man. Perihan Savaş's freshness brings warmth, and Safa Önal's writing doesn't neglect feeling. Watched today, some scenes may seem rushed, but it is a film whose heart is in the right place.

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

Cüneyt Arkın as a hired killer, a runaway couple and a hard journey: the setup promises a lively road movie, and at 85 minutes it moves quickly. The scrapes along the way keep the pace up. But the film throws action, drama, adventure and sentimental scenes into the same bag, and emotional beats arriving just as the tension builds can break the rhythm. For an action fan who loves Arkın, it's still good fun.

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

At the centre of Satılmış Adam is custom: a father wanting his daughter killed for being with the son of an enemy family shows how painful feuds and notions of honour still were in the seventies. Zeynep and Tezcan's flight to Fethiye can be read as the story of young people leaving oppressive traditions behind in search of another life. But because the film tells this heavy subject within an action and adventure mould, the social roots of honour violence remain mostly a pretext for the journey. The hired killer's reckoning with his past, meanwhile, puts individual conscience in the spotlight.

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