Orhan Kemal

Writing

Orhan Kemal

Known for

Writing

Credits

10 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Anası Gibi poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Anası Gibi

1957

Birds of Exile poster
6.9

Tahir Agha sells all his assets when his business in Maraş deteriorates. He immigrates to Istanbul with his wife Hatice, sons Selim, Murat, Kemal and daughter Fatoş, where he sets his mind to open a repair shop. But in the metropolis, things don't go as planned.

Birds of Exile

1964

Eskici ve Oğulları poster
NR

The film depicts the struggles of a poor family. A father who repairs shoes works alongside his two sons. The father wants his eldest son, Mehmet, to find another job. Mehmet decides to work as a cotton picker with his wife and children. Ali, the younger son who cannot get along with his father, also begins working with them. The father suggests that they all work together to pool their money and then renovate the shop. Upon this, the entire family goes to pick cotton. However, things will not go as planned for the family embarking on this new venture.

Eskici ve Oğulları

1990

On Fertile Lands poster
6.8

The tragic story of three farm worker who migrates from their village to the cotton land Çukurova.

On Fertile Lands

1980

72. Koğuş poster
7.2

A teenager who is brave and naive from Black Sea region, ends in jail during the World War 2 time. The movie tells about the story of this teenager.

72. Koğuş

1987

72. Ward poster
2.8

A love story of a prisoner in Turkey in the 1940s.

72. Ward

2011

Windfall poster
6.6

This is one of the tragicomic films of Kemal Sunal who is most "serious-comic" artist of the Turkish cinema. This film also reflects socio-economic and cultural life of the 70's-80's Turkiye. The film obviously talk to Turkish audience but who wonder that era of Turkiye can taste of it. The film underlines of love, friendship and -richness in the poorness- and also is a story about the people who prefers love, instead of money and fortune. The theme and narration may include some populist elements -like most Kemal Sunal films- but generally tells its story as well. The story is familiar to Turkish audience: A young man loves young girl. In most Turkish love films one of the partners is rich or poor according to the other but in this movie both sides are poor and they have many difficulties to reach happy end. In my opinion, these kind of movies always gives hope to people to get over it.

Windfall

1980

Hayat Kavgası poster
8.0

The film tells the tale of a father who can't get along with his sons. Haci Nuri runs a factory with his sons Erol and Metin. However, he pressures them in many areas of their lives. Unable to stand any more of his father's pestering, Erol moves out. After a while, Metin also leaves home to live with his elder brother. But in response, Haci Nuri disowns the two of them. The two brothers will try to start a business and get by without their father.

Hayat Kavgası

1964

Kaçak poster
8.0

The love between a man wanted by the gendarme and a woman who hid him.

Kaçak

1982

Falling Leaves poster
7.2

Ali Riza, a very respectable man, retires and moves to Istanbul with his wife and five children. His children quickly lose identity in degenerate big city and his family, once close-knit, begins crumbling away.

Falling Leaves

1967