The Man Without a Tomorrow (Yarınsız Adam) (translated)

In 1976 Remzi Jöntürk made the political drama Yarınsız Adam ("The Man Without a Tomorrow"), the first part of his trilogy, which Satılmış Adam and Yıkılmayan Adam, both from 1977, complete. It blends political, adventure and drama elements and runs about 84 minutes. İhsan Yurdakul is credited as co-director alongside Jöntürk; the screenplay is by Mehmet Aydın, and Deniz Kalkavan produced for Kalkavan Film.

The story centres on Murat Demir (Cüneyt Arkın), who grew up in poverty and lives on the street. He shares the streets with his friend Kemal and Zeliş (Betül Aşçıoğlu), the girl he loves. Hunger pushes the two men to theft; Murat helps his friend flee the police and lands in prison, where a further offence lengthens his term. On release he takes up illegal work to help the street children who share his fate. Levent İnanır plays the young Murat and Bilal İnci is the Father.

Told through the eyes of a man pushed into crime by poverty, the film points to the gap between rich and poor in Turkey. As in Jöntürk's other political films the socialist message is sometimes blunt: a poor boy who gets into Murat's car says rich and poor cannot be friends, because the wealthy cannot understand the poor.