Tatar Ramazan in Exile (Tatar Ramazan Sürgünde)

Tatar Ramazan in Exile (Tatar Ramazan Sürgünde) (translated)

Movie · 1992 · 10 people

Tatar Ramazan Sürgünde ("Tatar Ramazan in Exile"), a Turkish prison film from 1992, forms the second and final entry in the Tatar Ramazan series. Melih Gülgen directed and produced it under the Gülgen Film banner. Mixing drama, epic and period elements, it follows a tough, principled hero fighting injustice inside prison walls.

The story takes place in 1942, while the Second World War rages, and opens with headlines from the newspaper Cumhuriyet. Tatar Ramazan, whose reputation has reached the jail before him, is sent into exile at Adana Closed Prison. There, Abdurrahman Çavuş, who has run a feudal order for years, and his right-hand man Akseli fear that their racket is about to end, while the oppressed inmates see Ramazan as a savior. Kadir İnanır plays Tatar Ramazan, Hayati Hamzaoğlu is Abdurrahman Çavuş and Esin Moralıoğlu is Zeynep; Yıldırım Gencer, Kâzım Kartal, Turgut Bağır, Yaşar Kutbay and Yusuf Çağatay are also in the cast.

The screenplay is credited to Safa Önal and draws on a work by Kerim Korcan. Salih Dikişçi was the cinematographer and Ahmet Kaya provided the music. A closing title reads, in Turkish, that his name was spoken in seven hundred towns, seventy provinces and seven great powers.

DirectorMelih Gülgen
Production companyGülgen Film
ComposerAhmet Kaya

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Cast

Kadir İnanır Kadir İnanır Film actor · died at 77 Tatar Ramazan Esin Moralıoğlu Zeynep Hayati Hamzaoğlu Hayati Hamzaoğlu Actor · died at 67 Sergeant Abdurrahman Turgut Bağır Bıçkın Cafer Yıldırım Gencer Actor · died at 68 Uncle Kirmastılı Kâzım Kartal Kâzım Kartal Actor · died at 67 Akseli Ali Yaşar Kutbay Chief warden Yusuf Çağatay Warden Veli Kudret Karadağ Karacahöyüklü Mehmet Ayşecan Tatari

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

Kadir İnanır's Tatar Ramazan is one of the memorable examples of the tough, principled hero who will not bow to injustice. Ramazan, exiled to Adana Closed Prison in 1942 under the shadow of the war years, becoming a saviour to the oppressed inmates recalls Yeşilçam's deep-rooted sense of justice. Ahmet Kaya's music lends the film a particular sorrow, and Safa Önal's screenplay, drawing on Kerim Korcan, gives it a solid footing. It must be said, however, that this second film stays in the shadow of the first and that some of its conflicts follow familiar patterns.

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

A prison film, a bullying order that has run for years and a tough hero who arrives to bring it down: the formula is obvious, but it works. Abdurrahman Çavuş and his right-hand man Akseli fearing their racket is finished once Ramazan shows up sets the tension from the start. Kadir İnanır fills the screen with charisma. Some stretches do drag with drama and the pace drops. Still a fun watch for anyone curious about Turkish action classics.

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

Opening with headlines from the newspaper Cumhuriyet, the film puts us straight into 1942, with the Second World War still raging. The prison works as a small model of society: the feudal order Abdurrahman Çavuş has kept up for years looks like a reflection, behind walls, of the power relations outside. The oppressed inmates seeing Ramazan as a saviour points to a folk narrative that expects justice from a single hero rather than from institutions. That is both the film's strength and its limit: structural problems are reduced to a personal reckoning.

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