Hope (1970)
Umut (original title)

Cast

Credited cast:
	Yilmaz Güney	...	Cabbar
	Gülsen Alniaçik	...	Fatma
	Tuncel Kurtiz	...	Hasan
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
	Kürsat Alniaçik	...	Memet Emin
	Osman Alyanak	...	Hüseyin Hodja, the imam
	Enver Dönmez	...	The pickpocket
	Lütfü Engin	...	The grocer (as Lütfi Engin)
	Sema Engin	...	Cemile
	Nizam Ergüden	...	Nizam
	Hicret Gürson	...	Hicret
	Semra Kaya
	Ahmet Koç	...	Ahmet, the repairman
	Kemal Tatli	...	The police chief
	Sevgi Tatli	...	Hatice

Storyline

"Umut" is the story of an illiterate man and his family, whose existence depends on his income as a horse cab driver. When one of his horses is killed by an automobile, and when it is clear that neither justice nor charity will prevail, the man, played by Güney, begins a slow slide into despair. On the advice of a local holy man, and fuelled by an indefatigable optimism, he sets out into the desert in quest of a mythical lost treasure, slipping further and further into that final, ineluctable moment where hope itself becomes the last terrible delusion. Written by Daniel Yates <kamerad76@hotmail.com>  

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