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The Visit (Ziyaret)

The Visit (Ziyaret) (translated)

Movie · 1987 · 10 people

Revenge drives the story of Ziyaret (The Visit), a 1987 Turkish film that mixes drama, psychological tension and adventure. Kaya Ererez directed, produced and photographed it, and Safa Önal wrote the screenplay. Shot in color on 35 mm and running 128 minutes, it has a score by Cahit Berkay and was made by Rüzgar Film, with Sineray handling editing, laboratory work and dubbing.

At its center is a young girl named Arzu, whose mother has died because of a slander and who sets out to settle the account. Hülya Avşar plays Arzu, with Selçuk Özer as Murat. Sevda Ferdağ plays Arzu's mother, Gökhan Mete Murat's father, Savaş Yurttaş the slanderer and Engin İnal a businessman. Sibel Savaş and Banu Sengelli play Arzu's friends, and Hülya Birbilen plays Arzu as a child. Seyfettin Karadayı, Selçuk Yalçıntan, Erdoğan Akduman and Muhittin Meral appear as lawyers, and Beşire Doğan as a hotel owner.

As was usual at the time, several actors were dubbed: Jeyan Mahfi Tözüm voices Hülya Avşar, Erhan Yazıcıoğlu voices Selçuk Özer, Alev Koral voices Sevda Ferdağ and Ünal Gürel voices Yaşar Şener. Cenap Cevahir operated the camera and Bayram İlvur served as chief of lighting.

DirectorKaya Ererez
Production companyRüzgar Film

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Hülya Avşar Hülya Avşar Actor · 63 years old Arzu Selçuk Özer Murat Sevda Ferdağ Sevda Ferdağ Actor · died at 81 Arzu's Mother Engin İnal Businessman Savaş Yurttaş Actor · 1944 – 2002 Slanderer Gökhan Mete Murat's father Sibel Savaş Arzu's friend Turgut Özatay Turgut Özatay Actor · died at 74 Neighborhood resident Sevinç Pekin Guest Bülent Polat Customer

Also in the cast: Banu Sengelli, Hülya Birbilen (Arzu as a child), Seyfettin Karadayı, Selçuk Yalçıntan, Erdoğan Akduman, Muhittin Meral, Beşire Doğan (hotel owner), Yaşar Şener (Neighborhood resident), Bayram İlvur (Bayram)

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

Safa Önal's pen and Cahit Berkay's music are a reminder that even at the end of the eighties, Yeşilçam's master craftsmen were still at work. A story built on revenge, however, may feel a little harsh to a heart used to the forgiveness and warmth of the old melodramas. Slander, an attempted lynching and a settling of accounts take the film down a dark road. In my view that choice will divide viewers looking for the moral center of the classics, though it is worth watching for the way it reflects the changing mood of its time.

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

On paper there's a strong hook: a girl who lost her mother to slander setting out to settle the score, with an attempted lynching thrown in. That's perfect material for a tight revenge thriller. But this is a drama first, and over its long running time the tension shares space with the characters' inner lives. Fine for a patient fan of psychological suspense, not for anyone after a quick, punchy payback film.

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

With Kaya Ererez directing, producing and shooting the film himself, it comes from a single pair of hands, which is good reason to expect unity between visual choices and storytelling. On the other hand, the dubbing that was standard at the time makes the performances feel distant to today's eye: having Jeyan Mahfi Tözüm voice Hülya Avşar means entrusting half the performance to someone else, and the link between face and voice sometimes breaks. That makes the film hard to judge on its acting. For anyone curious about the production conditions and crew arrangements of eighties Turkish cinema, though, it is an instructive example.

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