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Contemporary Turkish Cinema Hokkabaz / The Magician 2006, 122 minutes,35 mm, color, Turkish with English subtitles  Friday, October 12, 7:00 pm Saturday, October 20, 1:00 pm Tickets at the Box Office Directed by Ali Taner Baltacı and Cem Yılmaz Screenplay by Cem Yılmaz Cinematography by Uğur İçbak Editing by Engin Öztürk Art Direction by Yaşar Kartoğlu Music by Ozan Çolakoğlu Produced by Necati Akpınar, BKM Film Starring Cem Yılmaz, Mazhar Alanson, Özlem Tekin, Tuna Orhan, Tuncer Salman, Kemal İnci, Gürgen Öz, Caner Alkaya, Ayça Abana, Bahtiyar Engin, Selim Erdoğan and Sennur Kaya Contact Information Nazife CantürkBKM Film Maya Meridyen Plaza, Ebulula Cad. D-2 Blok D: 12, Akatlar, İstanbul, Turkey Tel: +90 212 352 1818 Fax: +90 212 351 2168 E-mail: ncanturk@bkmonline.net |
The box-office hit of the 2006-2007 season in Turkey, Hokkabaz (The Magician) is a funny, warm and touching road movie. İskender is a clumsy magician in whom no one believes. Everyone considers him to be a simple juggler except for his childhood buddy, Maradona. As an attempt to escape troublesome İstanbul and make some money, İskender and Maradona take off for a stage tour in Anatolia. The trip turns upside down when İskender’s crazy and unappreciative dad, Sait, joins them. Thanks to İskender’s messed-up performance of a disappearing trick at a wedding party, they end up having an unexpected companion, Fatma. Throughout the journey moments of bonding and falling out await the four travelers, especially the father and son who had been estranged for years. From the Press Yılmaz softly tells us a heart-felt story in a language wrapped (sometimes maybe over-wrapped) with music—a story that carries traces of Yeşilçam of the past. [In The Magician] he attemps to depart from his comedy in favor of creating a complete character. In fact, all of the characters in the movie are meticulously weaved and presented. Therefore, the four stars deliver an ensemble performance as harmonious as the music of a good quartet. This movie shows without any doubt that “The Funniest Man in Turkey” is also a candidate to be a very good director. Welcome director Cem! (Atilla Dorsay, “The Funniest Man in Turkey Takes a Shot at Drama: The Magician”). Festivals and Awards 2007 The Washington D.C. International Film Festival (U.S.A.)2007 Ankara International Film Festival (Turkey): Most Promising Actor (Tuna Orhan) 2007 International İstanbul Film Festival (Turkey) |
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