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Hope (Umut)

Hope (Umut) (translated)

Movie · 2009 · 15 people

Murat Aslan directed and solely wrote the Turkish drama Umut, released in cinemas on February 27, 2009. It is an emotional drama of about 105 minutes. Bülent Helvacı and Mehmet Soyarslan produced it and Mazlum Çimen and Saki Çimen composed the music. Özen Film and Hermes Film are the production companies.

The story begins when a man named Yılmaz comes home after years in prison abroad. Events move from Şarköy to Istanbul. Arriving in his village, Yılmaz finds that the home he longed for has been shattered, and that his six-year-old son Umut, whom he has not seen since the boy was a baby, is a stranger to him. As father and son try to grow close again, a new danger arises of losing the child altogether. On the road to save the boy, Yılmaz meets an old friend he has not seen since childhood, the long-term residents of a hotel and a love that is never returned. As his options run out an unexpected offer comes his way, and he faces the gravest decision of his life.

Selim Erdoğan plays Yılmaz Ergin and Bertan Ceylan plays young Umut. Fikret Hakan appears as İlyas Aslanoğlu and Zeynep Tokuş as Suna Ergin. Seda Bakan plays Meryem and Mesut Akusta plays Turan Bey.

DirectorMurat Aslan
Production companyÖzen Film, Hermes Film
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Cast

Seda Bakan Seda Bakan Actor · 41 years old Meryem Mesut Akusta Mesut Akusta Actor · 62 years old Turan Bey Bertan Ceylan Umut Zafer Algöz Zafer Algöz Actor · 65 years old Muhittin Selim Erdoğan Selim Erdoğan Actor · 54 years old Yılmaz Zeynep Tokuş Zeynep Tokuş Actor · born 1977 Suna Fikret Hakan Fikret Hakan Actor · died at 83 İlyas Aslanoğlu / Guest Mazlum Çimen Mazlum Çimen Musician · 68 years old İlyas Yaşar Cemil Akın Ali Cağaloğlu Orhan Bey Mehmet Çelik Kemal İnci Kemal İnci Film director · died at 85 Headman Fuat Asu Maralman Mine Çağlayan Müge Oruçkaptan Nermin Levent Üzümcü Levent Üzümcü Actor · 54 years old Dr. Fatih

Also in the cast: Saki Çimen (Sound engineer)

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

A six-year-old who grew up without knowing his father, and a father trying to win him back: a subject that speaks directly to families. But this is an emotionally heavy drama, with prison, a broken home and the fear of losing a child. It may be too much for young children. It is the kind of film to watch with teenagers and adults, tissues within reach.

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

With Murat Aslan as director and sole writer, the film has the potential for a personal coherence. But the structure of the story is worryingly crowded: an old friend, the hotel's residents, an unreturned love and finally an unexpected offer. A journey with this many stops can turn into a series of episodes lined up one after another without any of them deepening enough. The emotional drama label also raises the risk of leaning on familiar melodrama habits, especially moments where the music steers the feeling. In my view the film's worth depends on how far the bond between father and son stays at the center amid all that.

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

The film's premise touches a wound often explored in Turkish cinema: a man who loses years abroad and, on his return, cannot recognize the life he left behind. The route from Şarköy to Istanbul follows the familiar migration path from the provinces to the big city, with the remedy for a home shattered in the village sought in the metropolis. A boy raised without his father and family ties severed by prison have the potential to offer a slice of fragile families in 2000s Turkey. How much social depth these themes gain inside an emotional drama is another question.

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