Murat of Tophane (Tophaneli Murat) (translated)

The color Turkish adventure film Tophaneli Murat (Murat of Tophane) was made in 1972. Çetin İnanç and Sırrı Gültekin co-directed it, and İnanç wrote the screenplay with Nuri Kırgeç. Mehmet Karahafız and Hasan Çakır produced it as a joint venture of Osmanlı Film, Dirlik Film and Lamek Film, and it reached cinemas on September 1, 1973. The cinematography was shared by Sertaç Karan and Özdemir Öğüt.

The story turns on Murat, a poor young man working at a grocer's, whose father Bekir was killed by the bully Rüstem at Murat's own circumcision feast. His mother Fatma wants him to take revenge, but he will not. When he cannot pay the bill on an evening out with his girlfriend, he steals, is caught and lands in the same cell block as his father's killer; he keeps away from Rüstem, yet Rüstem's men cripple his arm. Out of prison he finds factory work, but a clean life is no longer easy to build.

Kadir İnanır takes the title role of Murat. Muazzez Kurdoğlu plays his mother Fatma and Ali Demir his father Bekir. Piraye Uzun is Gül, Turgut Özatay is Rüstem, Erden Alkan is Fehmi, Nuri Kırgeç is Remzi, Türker Tekin is İsmail and Adnan Mersinli is Tahsin, with Yeşim Yükselen as Tahsin's girlfriend. Further parts include a prosecutor (Yılmaz Gruda), a police commissioner (Haydar Karaer), the grocer Niyazi (Mehmet Ali Güngör), a night watchman (Rıza Genç) and a factory manager (Zeki Sezer).

As was common in Yeşilçam at the time, a number of the actors were dubbed: Abdurrahman Palay voiced Kadir İnanır, Pekcan Koşar voiced Turgut Özatay, Timuçin Caymaz voiced Türker Tekin, Ünal Gürel voiced Nuri Kırgeç, Rıza Tüzün voiced Haydar Karaer and Doğan Bavli voiced Adnan Mersinli.